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And then, turning to the lackey, "John," said he, "bring a bottle of Château-margaux: you will find it in the third cellar on the left-hand side." But the rustic stared at his master with gaping mouth, as if he had been addressed in one of the dead languages. Seeing the predicament, and mastering it rapidly, "Excuse me," said De Vlierbeck, rising; "he would not find it, I fear.
The companion-way was so black that we were completely hidden, and I heard Mr Frewen draw his breath with a soft hissing sound, as if he now grasped the fact that a better chance was to be afforded to us of mastering the leader of the mutineers, who came right to the shattered entrance, and appeared to be about to enter, but stopped short listening for a sound, but for a few seconds there was none.
But, believe me, he is worth mastering, not because he is mine, but simply because he is tough." I promised all diligence. "Very good. Science has made vast strides, and introduced entirely new modes of looking at nature, and poets must live up to the age.
With perseverance, the very odds, and ends of time may be worked up into results of the greatest value. An hour in every day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits would, if profitably employed, enable a person of ordinary capacity to go far toward mastering a science. It would make an ignorant man a well-informed one in less than ten years.
They are not reading to themselves, not studying, not mastering the contents of the book, not assimilating the mental and spiritual nutriment that it may be supposed to contain. They are standing up, one by one, even in the highest class of all, and reading aloud to their teacher. Why are they doing this?
She heard it said of him, that the courted discarder of the sex, hitherto a mere politician, was wonderfully humanized. Lady Pennon fell to talking of him hopefully. She declared him to be one of the men who unfold tardily, and only await the mastering passion. If the passion had come, it was controlled. His command of himself melted Diana.
In the immediate reality of our purposive life we aim towards mastering the world by a causal understanding, and for this end we create science; but this aim itself is then a purpose and not an object. The first act is thus for us, the thinkers, not a part of the causal events, but a purposive intention towards an ideal.
Mark was in a dilemma, and whispered softly to Morris: "I think I had better leave. You can tell her all I had to say;" but Helen heard him, and mastering her agitation she said to him: "Please, Mr. Ray, don't go not yet at least, not till I have asked you of Katy. Did you see her off? Has she gone?"
It was the Green Man. He saluted by raising his hand to his cap and seated himself at a table near to ours. "A glass of cider, Daddy Mathieu," he said. As the Green Man entered, Daddy Mathieu had started violently; but visibly mastering himself he said: "I've no more cider; I served the last bottles to these gentlemen."
I told my men not to see anything, not to hear anything; that if any man saw or heard anything he would be strangled that instant." Tutmosis had succeeded in mastering himself. "I know nothing," said he, coldly, "and understand nothing of what Thou hast said to me.
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