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Under cover of all this quivering excitement, and with Gresham more absorbed than ever upon the foul which might yet slay him, Constance turned to Polly with an intent decisiveness which was quite new to her. "Arrange it so that I may go home in Mr. Loring's car," she directed. "Three cheers!" approved Polly, with a spiteful glance at Gresham. Mr.
"No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech "there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing it's too late now.
On the one hand, Eisenhower and the Republicans had condemned the increasing centralization of power in the federal government. On the other hand, Eisenhower had been a general who had been accustomed to having his subordinates carry out his orders. Eisenhower, the general, moved with decisiveness and sent troops into Little Rock to enforce the law.
Seaforth gets through," she said. "I suppose you have not a few dollars you could give me, father?" "No," said Townshead, with somewhat unusual decisiveness; "I have not. You are always asking for dollars. What do you want them for?" "Mr. Seaforth has packed our stores in for a long while, and we have paid him nothing," said the girl, while a little colour crept into her face.
Not a trace of the rector remained in him: the decisiveness vanished from his voice; it became musical, low, and hesitating. It was as if some angel had touched him, and had suddenly converted all his strength into tenderness, a transformation not impossible, for strength is tenderness and tenderness is strength. "I shall be forty-nine years old next birthday," he said.
Joanna spoke not a word of demur when Rufinus said that he intended to accompany the fugitives; and when, with beaming looks, he went on to praise Orion's foresight and keen decisiveness, Paula flew to him proudly and gladly, holding out both her hands. As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life.
Without arguing with himself he had taken it for granted that she had been labouring under a tremendous strain, and that no matter what her trouble was it had come to look immeasurably darker to her than it really was. But Jean's attitude, his low and unexcited voice, and the almost omniscient decisiveness of his words had convinced him that Josephine had not painted it as blackly as she might.
Start with the four buildings closest to us, and get them cleared out. If the shaveheads give you any trouble, don't argue with them, just shoot them...." Erskyll, after his brief moment of decisiveness, was staring at the screen to the Convocation Chamber, where bodies were still being heaved into the lorries like black sacks of grain.
Of all of the qualities and characteristics which contribute to success in the persuasion of others, there is, perhaps, none more powerful than that courage which gives calmness, surety of touch, decisiveness, and unwavering, unhesitating action. Some years ago we saw a huge mob surround a building in which a political speaker was trying to talk upon an unpopular subject.
Does Miss Weston recall to you anybody we have met?" "No," said Ida, with a somewhat incautious decisiveness. "If you mean our camp-packer, she certainly does not." Arabella understood this to mean that any comparison of the kind suggested would be derogatory to the packer, which was somewhat significant.
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