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A profound knowledge of generalship and a self-reliant personality are essential to enable the war preparations to be suitably carried out; under the shifting influence of different aims and ideas the "organizer of victory" will often feel doubtful whether he ought to decide this way or that.
It is the echo of the country at home, the weathercock, that denotes and answers the shifting wind, a thing of tail, nearly all tail, moved by the tail and by the wind, with small heading, and that corresponding implicitly in movement with the broad sail-like stern, which widens out behind to catch the rum-fraught breath of 'the Brotherhood. As that turns, it turns; when that stops, it stops; and in calmish weather looks as steadfast and firm as though it was riveted to the centre.
At first I was too much horrified by what I considered his barbarities, too much puzzled by his shifting humours, and too frequently annoyed by his small vanities, to regard him otherwise than as the cross of my existence.
Grammar they had memorized, but hardly comprehended. As for mathematics, they were on the verge of algebra. Then came the force of laws of politics and trade, a shifting of things, and Grant strode out of nature to learn the artificial. His family was removed to town. Western, or rather Northwestern, town life, when the town has less than ten thousand people, varies little with the locality.
The girls went on before and Ruth was delighted that, for a time, at least, Jerry was to have his freedom. "If it froze over solid in the night he could get to the mainland from the other end of the island, and then they'd never find him," she confided to Tom. But when morning came the surface of the lake was still a mass of loose and shifting ice. Lem demanded of Mrs.
The porter, it appeared, had laid hands on Zeno the Great's black box, possibly with a view to shifting it from where it lay on the floor directly in the doorway; whereupon its owner became seized with a veritable berserk rage.
Meanwhile, what pleasure to put the house in its most shining order, to plan daily little special dishes, lest he come upon her unawares; to sit and sew upon her clothing, shifting and turning her patchwork materials until she had worked out clever combinations which conveyed small hint of being make-overs! For the first time in her life she said nothing to her father of her expectations.
Philip thought Rose must be looking forward as much to his return as he was himself to seeing Rose. He found that owing to the death from scarlet fever of one of the boys in the Sixth there had been some shifting in the studies and Rose was no longer in his. It was a bitter disappointment. But as soon as he arrived he burst into Rose's study.
The splendid eyes turned from Mary, and looked away to the blue sky, to the hills in their ineffable beauty of colour and light shifting, changing with every moment of the summer day. Intense weariness, a settled despair, were expressed in that look tearless, yet sadder than all tears. 'It must be very monotonous, very sad for you, murmured Mary, her own eyes brimming over with tears.
A constant shifting between such humanity and the calm detachment which prefigured heaven was what most convinced her of the truths of Lao-tze. All this took body at the announcement of Edward Dunsack about Gerrit and his niece. Certainly he might have had an affair; that she dismissed; but the insinuated permanence of this other affection was serious. She would not have believed Mr.
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