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There have been pilots as quickwitted and gunners as accurate as Guynemer, but there has never been anybody who equaled him in the flashlike rapidity of his attack, or for doggedness in keeping up a fight. We must conclude that he had a special gift, and this gift his own genius must be ultimately reduced to his decision, that is, his will-power.
Especially when all the while you'd be wanting so to pet and console him! But with his calm doggedness Cuthbert began again "I was a bit afraid the old place would have seemed too quiet and dull to you " when the day was saved and my interruption strangely justified by a shrill outcry from the camp. I knew that high falsetto tone. It was the voice of Mr.
"I told you that you had no reason that he was not guilty," Eugene said, with a kind of stern doggedness; and still he did not look at her. "I could not marry him," Dorothy panted, softly. "I told you you had no reason," Eugene said again, as if he were saying a lesson that he had taught himself. "Are you angry with me because I could not marry him?"
And I should die there smothered." She bent her head, put her fingers between her lips, while the bitterness surged up in her heart. "And what will you do otherwise?" she asked. "I don't know go on, I suppose. Perhaps I shall soon go abroad." The despairing doggedness in his tone made her go on her knees on the rug before the fire, very near to him.
Case then, with the slow, uncertain movements of a man whose mind is befogged, began to count his gold; but only to gather up a few pieces when they slipped out of his trembling hands to roll on the moss. Laboriously, seriously, he kept at it with the doggedness of a drunken man. Apparently he had forgotten the others.
And on Sundays and holidays for of these latter he took, unasking, what he knew to be his due all day long, from cock-crowing to the going down of the sun, he would pass at Kenmuir. In this one matter the boy was invincibly stubborn. Nothing his father could say or do sufficed to break him of the habit. He endured everything with white-lipped, silent doggedness, and still held on his way.
To tell you the truth, I am on the way over to Peterkins'. Sally is the right size and will jump at it." Dolly's lips were tight. Her eyes held a light, half of anger, half of an odd sort of doggedness. "Please unhook me!" she said, coldly. "There is no time to lose. Annie is out of her head with trouble." "Well, well, well!" Mrs.
To show feelings above all, to show you are hurt to sing out, in fact is to exhibit a poor spirit, to fall short in proper doggedness. Suffer in silence, if you can that must be the rule; just as this dog, with his keen, eager face, loves in silence loves all the more deeply, perchance, because he loves in silence, and because that silence is so much more eloquent than words.
"And that being so," said Pierre, with a certain doggedness peculiarly at variance with his fierce and headlong nature, "that being so, Mademoiselle Stephanie, would it not be wiser for you to yield at once?" "To yield, monsieur?" Her eyes sought his for the fraction of a second. He was still closely watching her. "To give me your promise," he said. "It is all I shall ask of you.
"His consistent energy is native to him and his race. He is a very fine example of the perseverance, doggedness, and tenacity which characterises the Anglo-Saxon spirit. His ability to withstand the climate is due not only to the happy constitution with which he was born, but to the strictly temperate life he has ever led.
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