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All his bearing showed his intellect, his reflectiveness, and his greatness, and was not devoid of a certain grace.
Although the pose and treatment of the head are practically identical with that in the Berlin picture, the conception seems a less dramatic one. It includes, unless the writer has misread it, an element of greater mansuetude and a less perturbed reflectiveness.
Haply if he had lingered without the sweats of bodily tortures to stay reflectiveness, he, also, in the strangeness of his prostration, might have cast a thought on the irony of the fates felling a man like him by a youngster's hand and for a shallow girl!
He turned deliberately upon his heel and waited for her. There was nothing else to do but acquiesce. They retraced their steps with that slow reflectiveness which comes when one walks backwards and forwards over the same ground. There is something eminently conversational in the practice of walking to and fro. For that purpose it is better than an arm-chair and a pipe, or a piece of knitting.
She will have us to be superior, as if we were English." "Indeed, indeed," cried Lucy, full of compunction, "I know you are always kind. And I know your ways are different but " with a sort of regretful reflectiveness, shaking her head. "All England is in that but," said the Contessa. "It is what has always been said to me.
She had some silly final idea that the poor man might now serve permanently to check the more dreaded applicant: a proof that her ordinary reflectiveness was blunted.
'Then a disagreeable evening will be the worst of it, said Catherine proudly. 'I imagine, Robert, you can defend yourself against that bad man? 'He has got the start; he has no scruples; and it remains to be seen whether the Squire has a heart to appeal to, replied the young Rector with sore reflectiveness.
His fright had been marked, he knew; a sort of surprised reflectiveness was in the manner of several of the moonshiners, and Ne-hemiah, with his ready fears, fancied that this inopportune show of terror had revived their suspicions of him.
To the Puritan the wilfulness of life, in which the men of the Renascence had revelled, seemed unworthy of life's character and end. His aim was to attain self-command, to be master of himself, of his thought and speech and acts. A certain gravity and reflectiveness gave its tone to the lightest details of his converse with the world about him.
"I'm not quite sure, however, that girls of that kind would find things even moderately comfortable here." There was a certain reflectiveness in his tone, which, since it seemed to indicate that he had already given the point some consideration, jarred upon his companion.
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