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Seeing that he bore this accusation in silence, only eyeing them steadfastly, they had been emboldened then to slap his face, whereupon he turned and gave them both the beating of their lives bloodying their noses and bruising their lips with hard blows against their front teeth, and finally leaving them, mauled and prone, in the dirt.
John was close beside him ten seconds before John, who is a sprinter from athletic education, and who could have distanced the professor with only half an effort had he wished, but who moderated his speed to conform with that of his less favored friend. The shouts have continued all this while, proving that the citizens of Valetta have steadfastly pursued them with some dark purpose in view.
She might have been the theme of the music sweeping around her in acclamatory waves, drowning the part she was carrying in suppressed murmur. He gazed steadfastly at the countenance. The light upon the forehead was an increasing radiance, like a star's refined by passage through the atmospheres of infinite space. A man insensitive to beauty in woman never was, never will be.
It may look bad now as a business deal, but another year and there'll be a difference." "Then you don't feel you've been cheated?" she said, relief and hopefulness in her tone. "No! No matter what happens, I don't feel I've been cheated." "Is that true?" He looked at her steadfastly and replied: "It is." "Where is your land?" "Right here."
Though her father steadfastly refused to entertain it, she shared Prescott's belief that her brother was not dead. For one thing, Cyril was not the man to come badly to grief; he had done many reckless things and somehow escaped the worst results. Illogical as the idea was, she felt that his luck was good.
Looking steadfastly ahead, over the bleak moor into the unknown beyond, I knew in my soul that I should conquer. For her head was leaning trustfully on my shoulder and her hand was in mine; and all was well. It was no easy life to which I brought home my young wife.
And I rode over to see you." I had now come close to her, and stood looking up into her face. "I'm a mere vestige," I said. She made no answer, but remained regarding me steadfastly with a curious air of proprietorship. "You know I'm the living survivor now of the great smash.
Here, a friend is one who loves you for your sake only and steadfastly loves without regard to any return, even a return-love. The English have a saying that you may fill a church with your acquaintances, and not fill the pulpit seats with your friends. If you may have in your life one or two real friends you are very wealthy.
Though poverty should fasten its bony hand upon him, and persecution shoot forth its forked tongue; whatever may betide him scorn, flight, flames let him promptly and steadfastly refuse. Better the spite and hate of men than the wrath of Heaven!
A diadem is described by William of Malmsbury, "so precious with jewels, that the splendour... threw sparks of light so strongly on the beholder, that the more steadfastly any person endeavoured to gaze, so much the more he was dazzled, and compelled to avert the eyes!"
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