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One was the conviction that the struggle must be fought out to the bitter end, and must bring either subjugation or complete independence. With such thoughts he sought to make Congress appreciate the probable long duration of the struggle, and he bent every energy to giving permanency to his army, and decisiveness to each campaign.

The first is the unique position which Christ here claims, with unwonted openness and decisiveness, as apart from and far above all the prophets. They constitute one order, but He stands alone, sustaining a closer relation to God. They were faithful 'as servants, but He 'as a Son, or, as Mark has it, 'the only and beloved Son. The listeners understood Him well enough.

I'm positive of that. You can provide for her handsomely, of course." "It isn't the money that Jennie wants," said Lester, gloomily. "Well, even if it isn't, she can live without you and she can live better for having an ample income." "She will never want if I can help it," he said solemnly. "You must leave her," she urged, with a new touch of decisiveness. "You must.

She even laughed an evasive sort of laugh. "Nobody means anything," said Caroline firmly. She rose and crossed the room toward the door with grim decisiveness. "Where are you going?" asked Mrs. Brigham. "I have something to see to," replied Caroline, and the others at once knew by her tone that she had some solemn and sad duty to perform in the chamber of death. "Oh," said Mrs. Brigham.

Mollie was restive under his cool decisiveness for various reasons; he was irritated because he felt he had failed, and had lost ground instead of gaining it.

Andreas followed her, with the leech, a man of middle height, whose shrewd and well-formed head, bald but for a little hair at the sides, was set on a somewhat ungainly body. His sharp eyes looked hither and thither, and there was something jerky in his quick movements; still, their grave decisiveness made up for the lack of grace.

To this hoisting tackle I could, if necessary, attach a second hoisting tackle. And then there was the windlass! Maud saw that I had achieved a solution, and her eyes warmed sympathetically. "What are you going to do?" she asked. "Clear that raffle," I answered, pointing to the tangled wreckage overside. Ah, the decisiveness, the very sound of the words, was good in my ears. "Clear that raffle!"

Lee met the pleasant decisiveness of her capable hand, the doctor grasped his fingers with a robust witticism; and he was replying to the Davencotts' geniality when he had a glimpse of Mrs.

The decisiveness of Urban brought to an end the vacillating negotiations of the Papal See with the Florentines, and peace was proclaimed at last. The first of these notes announces the first step toward a satisfactory end the observance of the Interdict, placed by Gregory upon the city, and contumaciously broken by the rebels.

Assuming this, you must at once see that here is an explanation of your new-found energy. Your quickened step, your new-found decisiveness of action, your more observant eye, your clear-cut speech instead of the former drawling utterance, your livelier manner, your freshened enthusiasm and enjoyment of life all of these are but manifestations of a quickened intelligence.