One can imagine the curiosity, much vaguer and more indifferent, with which the woefully cold and woefully weary young woman met the scrutiny of those hard, flashing blue eyes, and took the moral measure of this eccentric creature, come from Turin to Florence with some ten or twelve half-tamed horses, in order to learn Tuscan grammar for the sake of writing tragedies.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
In general the higher the ideal the vaguer and less vivid is its presentation to our consciousness.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
They seized upon vaguer substances like air and fire, for the very definiteness of the nature of water forbids the identification of other substances with it.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry