acute

• They watched me intently as I mounted the steps of the rostrum and arranged my port-folio upon a musical tripod; then I seated myself for a moment, and tried to still the beating of my foolish heart How strangely acute were my perceptions of everything before me! —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
• He will do the same service for a white as for a red man; and often does the weary trapper take his lone rest, with full confidence that the vigil will be faithfully kept by his horse Had there been dogs in the Indian camp, my apprehensions would have been still more acute--the danger would have been more than doubled. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• [382] So acute was the difficulty that it became the subject of diplomatic correspondence with Great Britain; but the authorities of the Hudson's Bay Company retorted that "spirits are even clandestinely introduced into the Company's territories by citizens of the United States. —  Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858
• The inflammatory state has been called the acute rheumatism, and the other, the chronic rheumatism; I would, however, prefer the terms sthenic and asthenic rheumatism In the same manner, there is a catarrh, which is liable to afflict persons who have often been subject to an inflammatory cold, particularly persons advanced in years; and this depends on a state of indirect debility of the parts, the excitability of which has been exhausted by frequent and violent inflammatory affections. —  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
• His own senses had become preternaturally acute, and, with the conviction that he was followed by but one, came a rush of shame. —  The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War

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