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To this, I suppose, is to be attributed the little geniality and originality for which the public have kindly praised my verses a geniality which sprung, not from the atmosphere whence I drew, but from the honesty and single-mindedness with which, I hope, I laboured.
With all a woman's single-mindedness, she regarded the Argentine miner as being directly responsible for Courtenay's hazard, nor would she listen to Christobal's mild protest that nothing could have been done earlier, no matter how outspoken Suarez chose to be.
He understood it afterward, but for the present his single-mindedness spared the girl. She remained to clear away the table, when the rest left it, and Westover followed Mrs. Durgin into the parlor, where she indemnified herself for refraining from any explicit allusion to Jeff before Cynthia.
How was it possible from such personal temporising such a frittering of the forces and sympathies to win the single-mindedness and the power without which no great career is built? She wanted to talk with him reproach him! "Well I must go worse luck," said Wharton at last, laying down his napkin and rising. "Lane, will you take charge? I will join you outside later."
There is usually better individual work done in such a school than is possible in a large system of graded schools in a city. In such a school there is more single-mindedness on the part of pupils and teacher. These pupils bring to such a school unspoiled minds, minds not weakened by the attractions and distractions, both day and night, of city life.
The object of their amazed glances fortunately did not keep the good people long in suspense. After a timid prayer slightly incoherent, but abounding in petitions for single-mindedness and worshipful reverence from the minister's wife, the Honorable Peter Wentworth rose to his feet and loudly cleared his throat: "Ahem!
The simplicity, the honesty, the single-mindedness of this prairie flower made her more than susceptible to girlish happiness, even amidst her troublous surroundings.
Barinskoi understood Wilhelm's character and saw that he could quite safely trust to his forbearance and his single-mindedness, so he made no further secret of the fact that he was a Nihilist and an Anarchist. When Wilhelm asked him if he imagined what the realization of his theories meant, he had the answer ready. "We demand unconditional freedom.
Must we come to family government, in order to be filial or fraternal in our bearing with one another? Why should we be so blunt, so sharp, so ironical, so brutal in our kindness? The single-mindedness of the English is beautiful. It may not help to the instant understanding of our jokes; but then, even we are not always joking, and it does help to put us at rest and to make us feel safe.
Joseph was the best Jewish boy that ever was born, but he hated to go to heder, so he had to be whipped, of course. Deborah was just a baby, and her principal characteristic was single-mindedness. If she had teething to attend to, she thought of nothing else day or night, and communicated with the family on no other subject.
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