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David had never before seen him, and his imagination had fashioned a different personality. Here was a combination of intellect, refinement, and savagery. The red, sullen lips stamped the delicate, fanatical face with cruelty and barbaric indulgence, while yet there was an intensity in the eyes that showed the man was possessed of an idea which mastered him a root-thought.
I did love and delight in them, and when they died I mourned their loss. Every day brought me new information, which my parents perfected. At length the alphabet was mastered, and afterwards spelling, reading, and so forth.
In schools and at the university he quickly mastered their small politics and prevailing tendencies, and he often amused his fellow- pupils with free-handed yet fairly truthful sketches of their instructors.
She flushed, but continued, "It simply occurred to me that if you aren't strong enough to handle your own throat, you're not strong enough to beat a man who has mastered his." Glenister looked at the whiskey a moment, then set it back on the tray. "Bring two lemonades," he said, and with a laugh which was half a sob Cherry Malotte leaned forward and kissed him. "You're too good a man to drink.
I was the only one in the family who ever mastered the art of swimming and I mastered it by persistent paddling in this pond on Sundays and summer evenings and between my farm duties at other times. All my people were "landlubbers" of the most pronounced type and afraid to get above their knees in the water or to trust themselves to row-boats or other craft. Here again I was an odd one.
He's no business to give me such long, hard lessons and then scold because I don't recite perfectly." Here conscience reminded her that she could easily have mastered her task if her time had not been wasted over a story-book. "It's a pity if I can't have the pleasure of reading a story once in a while," she said in reply; "and I'm not going to give up doing it either for him or anybody else.
We read much Gaston, in especial I believe, mastered by heart every poem on love printed in the French language and many in the Italian, Spanish and English languages. He likewise achieved a great number of songs, and actually composed some himself; but of these last, I have heard better, I must acknowledge. The Hôtel Kirkpatrick was unoccupied and closed, the entrances and windows boarded up.
Approaching that personage of unrivalled feats, that one who is unrivalled in beauty on Earth, that one who has mastered all branches of learning, that ocean of accomplishments, that faultless Ashvatthama, thy son told him these words, "Thou, O preceptor's son, art today our highest refuge.
The despatch was in cipher when I received it, but was translated by the telegraph operator at my headquarters, who long before had mastered the key of the French cipher: "PARIS, January 10, 1867. FRENCH CONSUL, New Orleans, La. "To GENERAL CASTELNAU, at Mexico. "Received your despatch of the 9th December.
"Better," thought he, "that she should perish, even by the torture, than adopt that hated faith." He gnashed his teeth in agony at either alternative. His dreams, his objects, his revenge, his ambition all forsook him: one single hope, one thought, completely mastered his stormy passions and fitful intellect. In this mood the pretended santon met Boabdil.
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