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She went back to the precipice edge to prove to him, to prove to herself, that she could stand there alone, without the moral support of anyone at her side, and found that she could. She had mastered her weakness. It was as if a new force had been born in her.
A dark scowl gathered on his face as he read, and when he had mastered the document, an exclamation broke from his lips to this effect: "Infernal villain and coward!" "What now?" queried Dick, not a little surprised at his companion's violent language. "What do you think?"
Pierre, for his part, had not spoken a word since the beginning of the debate. He had listened to everything, at first influenced by the thought of his brother's interests, and afterwards mastered by the feverishness which gradually took possession of everybody present.
I have seen the principles of agriculture so taught as to leave with the student the impression that he could raise more corn than his neighbor and sell it at a higher price if he mastered the principles of nitrification; and all without one single reference to the basic principle of conservation upon which the welfare of the human race for all time to come must inevitably depend, without a single reference to the moral iniquity of waste and sloth and ignorance.
Gradually Alice mastered herself, but more than a broken word or two still seemed beyond her, and Mary waited in patience. She was well aware that some trouble of a nature unknown to her had been weighing on Miss Puttenham for a week or more; and she realized too, instinctively, that she would get no light upon it. Presently there was a knock at the door, and Mary went to open it.
I hope I have not his death to my account, and for certain no corpse lay in the road when I passed along it a few hours later. 'Right! I called sturdily, deepening my voice to imitate that of my victim as nearly as I could match it 'Crop-headed Puritans, tow-row-row! Still shouting the chorus, I mastered the reluctant horse, swung myself into saddle, and edged up towards my comrades. 'Carey!
"And then," replied the latter, after having mastered his feelings, "should I be the man I really am, should I be the true friend you believe me, if I were to expose you, whom the king already hates so bitterly, to a feeling more than ever to be dreaded in that young man?
He gazed around as one who should say, "Did you ever see anything so amazing outside the Ark?" Miranda corrected her remark with a laugh. "Well, I mean I haven't won as much as I should have if I had backed winners." For she had really mastered the science of the race-course. She knew how to go racing. Her husband paid her losses and she kept her winnings.
Did Leclere beat Batard and fondle Babette Babette who was not half the worker he was why, Batard threw her down in the snow and broke her hind leg in his heavy jaws, so that Leclere was forced to shoot her. Likewise, in bloody battles, Batard mastered all his team-mates, set them the law of trail and forage, and made them live to the law he set.
The next, he had mastered himself sufficiently to speak, this woman, so slight, so beautiful, so insolent should not baffle him, he resolved! and bending his dark brows menacingly, he addressed her in his harshest and most peremptory manner. "You talk of God," he said, "as a child talks of the sun and moon, with as little meaning, and less comprehension!
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