When its actual presence was not with her in the cell, Ruin's words were far more simple and vague.

That would still give the disease a small actual presence in this vast city, but the psychological impact is already huge.

The matter is not yet ready for your actual presence, but your preparations may now be made.

But those hints had given him no sense of his father as a solid, actual presence separate from himself.

Distant death is one thing, its actual presence quite another.

But an actual presence now, and not merely a vibration.

"I love the idea of having access to the actual presence of a human being."

But the longer they walked thus alone, the more he was disturbed by the sense of her actual presence.

Yet finding himself now unexpectedly in the actual presence of Indians was another matter, and he had a very different reaction.

"We can't do anything except in its actual presence."