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But the most remarkable things about the man were a pair of weirdly fascinating eyes with a mad glint in them and an enormous full beard, snow white, that fell almost to his waist. At times the man talked rationally, in fact with the forcefulness of a great savant. Then, abruptly, he would leave off and the rest of his conversation was that of a babbling child.
And this was the verse of Scripture carved in stone: "Man walketh in a vain shadow: he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them." Forgetting the murdered Frenchman in the forcefulness of the text, Keeler wondered if Robert Palmer's journey, too, would end like this. Golden Opportunities In California Opportunity knocked at every gate not once but many times.
It's up to you to help them by keeping your hand on the tiller of things right here." Murray leaned back in his chair. His forcefulness had died out under Kars' cold counsel. "Yes, it's up to me," he said with a sort of desperate regret. Presently he looked up. A light of apprehension had grown in his dark eyes. "You said you'd tell them?" he demanded eagerly. "Say, I couldn't do it.
Now the King had felt inwardly pleased at the forcefulness of his own appeal, so when the men stood silent, unable to give their answer, he frowned and showed his disappointment. The farmers understood that the King was impatient for their reply, and at length one stepped forward. "Now you must know, King Gustav," he said, "that we were not expecting a visit from our King here to-day.
"Because it is good to hate!" exclaimed the host with rugged forcefulness as he squatted in a seat. "To hate is strong, manly. It makes the blood flow. It makes one alert. It is necessary for keeping up the fighting instinct. To love is a feebleness. It enervates. You see all the nations that talk of love as the keynote of life are weak, degenerate.
"I should think so," she said at last. "You, with your mental forcefulness, your ability as a questioner why, I don't see how you can fail to get at what he knows. Beside, you have the element of surprise on your side. That will go far toward sweeping him off his feet." He was again conscious of his debt of gratitude to this woman, and tried to voice it.
I shall permit myself only to say that few can have an adequate idea of the power and forcefulness revealed in the mere fact that one who had so onerous a part to play as a college head should have been able to keep up scientific work at all. A weaker nature would have exhausted itself in the problems of administration.
The originality of the ideas, the absolute disregard of the authority of church or creed, the frankness with which opinions were stated, and the forcefulness of the language in which they were expressed, combined to make the discussions altogether marvellous. The passage between Abe Baker, the stage-driver, and Geordie was particularly rich.
Please don't pretend that you don't understand me." The direct forcefulness of the man almost made Barbara forget the little plan she had arranged on her way to the hotel to meet him. "I won't pretend, Mr. Holmes," she answered seriously. "But will you go with me for a little ride into the desert?"
It was singularly easy to forgive Gregory that, for she now saw him as he was shallow, careless, shiftless, a man without depth of character. He had a few surface graces, and on occasion a certain half-insolent forcefulness of manner which in a curious fashion was almost becoming. There was, however, nothing beneath the surface.
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