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You have no love for Eulaeus, Publius, but he is extremely skilled in such matters, and I hope he will presently return to give us his advice." "For the morning we will have a grand procession," cried the king. "Euergetes delights in a splendid spectacle, and I should be glad to show him how much pleasure his visit has given us."
Never had a young and ambitious woman a beauty and a genius a finer moment for the commencement of her power. It was Constance's early and bold resolution to push to the utmost even to exaggeration a power existing in all polished states, but now mostly in this, the power of fashion! This mysterious and subtle engine she was eminently skilled to move according to her will.
Thus it was my part, though; the younger, to give her courage, notwithstanding the awful curse haunted me likewise, and rang in my ears even when at last I made my way through the dark streets, followed by the serving-man, to do Ann's bidding. My heart was heavier than it had been for many a day; for my fears were mingled with pity for that hapless soul, so skilled in much learning.
But if the Indian woman's horizon be limited, her shrewdness and intuitive knowledge are often amazing; and this formidable old lady skilled in the art of imposing her will on others knew herself a match for her husband's evasions and Arúna's flat rebellion. She reckoned, however, without the daughter of Sir Theo Desmond, who, at this point, took action sudden and disconcerting.
From the royal Larder at York such foodstuffs as venison, game, and fish were despatched salted to wherever the King required them. Business, in one form or another, was the occupation of the majority of the citizens. There were a few capitalist merchants, many traders, and thousands of employed workpeople, skilled and unskilled.
If either Texans or Mexicans had passed they wanted to know why, and when. They came at last to hoofprints in the soft bank of the river, indicating that horses undoubtedly with men on their backs had crossed here. The skilled trailers calculated the number at more than fifteen, perhaps more than twenty, and they followed their path across the timber and out upon the prairie.
He had not dreamed that idleness on so grandiose a scale flourished in the city which to him had always been a city of hard work and limited meal-hours. He saw that he had a great deal to learn before he could hope to be as skilled in idleness as the lowest of these experts in the lounge. He tapped his foot warningly. No effect on his women.
The camera man began to show interest: he was a skilled mechanician and he caught the drift of a sensible purpose, at last. Shirley did not answer. He placed the first record in the phonograph, running it until the feminine voice could be distinguished asking: "Can you hear me now?" He marked the beginning and end of this phrase with his pocket knife.
Thus, if they were coolly skilled enough to ride outstretched on the surface and the forward face of the crest instead of being flung and crumpled or driven head-first to bottom, they would dash shoreward, not propelled by their own energy, but by the energy of the wave into which they had become incorporated. And they did it!
Thenceforward, she lived at her loom; she became a skilled and favoured worker, and the work grew dear to her first, because 'Lias lived on it, and, next, because the bright roses and ribbon-patterns she wove into her costly stuffs were a perpetual cheer to her.
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