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She cried to herself wilfully, that her pride was broken: as women do when they spurn at the wounding of a dignity they cannot protect and die to see bleeding; for in it they live. The cry came of her pride unbroken, sore bruised, and after a certain space for recovery combative.
From being silent and taciturn, as during the months of his wanderings, Sam became morose and combative. Staying on and on in the empty, aimless way of life he had adopted he yet felt that there was for him a right way of living and wondered at his continued inability to find it.
The sacred and the profane are so intermingled in his childish understanding, that he will never be able to tell which is sacred and which is profane; and his nature being dogged and combative, he will grow up into the highest possible type of wickedness, if he grows up at all.
One always admires the qualities one hasn't oneself." "And you are not combative? You don't like to be in the opposition?" "Not a bit! I'm not fond of fighting. I systematically avoid a row." "I shouldn't have thought that," said Clare, looking at him again. "Do you know? I think most people would take you for a soldier."
The predacious instinct and the combative instinct weigh down and disfigure our economic development.
In this slightly combative mood he retraced his steps and found himself outside the High Gear Dance Hall, fortified for another possible encounter with the inquiring and obviously sympathetic Montague girl. He entered and saw that she was not on the set.
J. Cousins. Then came the Rev A. T. Armstrong, and he was followed by the present incumbent. During the reign of Mr. Cousins there was a rupture at the place, and many combative letters were written with reference to it. Up to and for some time after his appointment the Sunday schools of the Parish and St.
It seemed to her that sometimes when she had been looking from a rock straight down into clear sea water, this same color had lurked in its depths. "Is it green, or is it gray?" she asked herself, but did not turn just now to see. She kept her face toward the landscape. "All men are born equal," he now remarked slowly. "Yes," she quickly answered, with a combative flash. "Well?"
It is therefore one of man's deathless achievements; the power of its appeal is evident from the frequency with which it has been revived it was staged at Cambridge this very year. Staged it will be as long as men are what they are. Having learned that men are a naturally combative race, lusting for blood, the poet saw it was hopeless to bring them to terms.
Once he brought this up, the conversation usually degenerated into combative silence. They never settled that argument it just kept going on its own, to the detriment of everyone's sanity. Whether she was getting a real education or not, Julia found herself constantly searching for meaning. The last question was more easily answered than the others.
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