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Good political institutions would weaken the impulse toward force and domination in two ways: first, by increasing the opportunities for the creative impulses, and by shaping education so as to strengthen these impulses; secondly, by diminishing the outlets for the possessive instincts.
But then she had always accepted it as quite natural, which it was. Also as calling for no particular notice, except, as it were, for a certain graceful obliviousness on her part, modified by a possessive glance or two from her fearless black eyes glances for which Stair watched more alertly than he had ever gazed into the night for the signal flashes from the Good Intent.
Thus to learn Masonry is to know our work and to do it well. What true mason would shrink from the task? AB. The Hebrew word בא, AB, signifies "father," and was among the Hebrews a title of honor. From it, by the addition of the possessive pronoun, is compounded the word Abif, signifying "his father," and applied to the Temple Builder. ABIF. See Hiram Abif.
Was the rich stuff of many possessions, the close encircling fabric of the possessive instinct walling in that little black figure of himself, and Soames was it to be rent so that he could pass through into his vision, find there something not of the senses only? 'Let me, he thought, 'ah! let me only know how not to grasp and destroy! But at dinner there were plans to be made.
On the whole Gregorio had little reason to be troubled; only unreasoning dislike for the Englishman why could not he be of any other nation, or, if an Englishman, any other Englishman? hurt his peace of mind. And for the most part his discontent only smouldered. Madam Marx brought her coffee and sat beside him. Her face betokened satisfaction, and she looked at Gregorio with a possessive smile.
She was the first girl who had ever looked twice at him, the first one he had ever taken out or talked nonsense with or been ordered about by in the possessive fashion used by the modern young woman. Hence he was head over heels in love. Kitty had begun to bloom again. Her cheeks were taking on their old rounded contour and occasionally dimples of delight flashed into them.
We had scarce a word in common; but her whole lean body spoke for her with indignant eloquence. 'My chest! it cried, with a stress on the possessive. 'My chest broken open! This is a fine state of things! I hastened to lay the blame where it belonged on Francois and his wife and found I had made things worse instead of better. She repeated the names at first with incredulity, then with despair.
I remarked afterward, when I chanced to shake hands with her, that her fingers enclosed one's hand; it was not a mere touch or pressure, but an unemotional and possessive clasp. I felt sure that she had heard the song before, else it had not produced even this so slight effect on her nerves. I said: "It is a quaint song. I suppose you are familiar with it and all of its kind?"
His, indeed, was the age, and his the soul, for pleasure; the tumult of the camp was to him but a holiday exhibition the march of an army, the exhilaration of a spectacle; the court as a banquet the throne, the best seat at the entertainment. The life of the heir-apparent, to the life of the king possessive, is as the distinction between enchanting hope and tiresome satiety.
The historian of the English eighties and nineties will, in his good time, depict the somewhat rapid progression from self-contented and contained provincialism to still more self-contented if less contained imperialism in other words, the 'possessive' instinct of the nation on the move. And so, as if in conformity, was it with the Forsyte family.
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