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But the man with strong ganglions of pushing, lively temperament, who, though practical, is yet speculative; the man who is emulous and active, and ever trying to rise in life; sanguine, alert, bold walks with a spring, looks rather above the heads of his fellow-passengers, but with a quick, easy turn of his own, which is lightly set on his shoulders; his mouth is a little open, his eye is bright, rather restless, but penetrative, his port has something of defiance, his form is erect, but without stiffness.
James's Street, while Whitechapel held the coroneted square, well on her way to the Law courts, as Abrane and Potts reported; and positively so, 'clear case. That was the coming development and finale of the Marriage. London waited for it. A rich man's easy smile over losses at play, merely taught his emulous troop to feel themselves poor devils in the pocket.
All this delighted the old class, who were as envious of their riches as the new people were emulous of their style.
Bring brands speedily, and reclaim the treaty in fire. He ended; all with spirit alike emulous form a wedge and advance in serried masses to the walls. Some rush to the separate gates, and cut down the guards of the entry, others hurl their steel and darken the sky with weapons.
With pleasure did the regent see herself emancipated from her long thraldom; the emulous industry of the nobility lightened for her the burden of business, and their insinuating humility allowed her to feel the full sweetness of power. . Granvella had been overthrown, but his party still remained.
I started out for to find you, and I have. But I'll tell any other lie you like, Mr. Yates, if it will oblige you." Yates recognized in the boy the same emulous desire to outstrip his fellows that had influenced himself when he was a young reporter, and he at once admitted the injustice of attempting to deprive him of the fruits of his enterprise. "No," he said, "that won't do.
All which sounded a note designed to find an echo in Damaris' generous heart. Which it did this the more readily because, still penitent for her recent trifle of wild-oats sowing, our beloved maiden was particularly emulous of good works, the missionary spirit all agog in her. She was out to comfort, to sympathize and to sustain.
My friends and I were all on fire for women's education, including women's medical education, and very emulous of Cambridge, where the movement was already far advanced. But hardly any of us were at all on fire for woman suffrage, wherein the Oxford educational movement differed greatly from the Cambridge movement.
For if the drawing of a simple line, of such a master as Protogenes, who was conceived by many to hold the first pencil in the world, was surpassed, to his great surprise, by another, how high must refinement have been raised by the exertions of the artists in a period so emulous of perfection!
Indeed, there was an Asiatic splendour of animal beauty about M. d'Henriel that would be serpent with most women, Madame d'Auffray conceived; why not with the deserted Renee, who adored beauty of shape and colour, and was compassionate toward a rashness of character that her own unnatural solitariness and quick spirit made her emulous of?
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