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It was plainly the hotel of some great family of the neighbourhood; and as it reminded Denis of a town-house of his own at Bourges, he stood for some time gazing up at it and mentally gauging the skill of the architects and the consideration of the two families.
Beholding his poor, mean dwelling and its surroundings, and picturing his outward life and earthly manifestations from these, one does not so much wonder that the people of that day should have failed to recognize all that was admirable and immortal in a disreputable, drunken, shabbily clothed, and shabbily housed man, consorting with associates of damaged character, and, as his only ostensible occupation, gauging the whiskey, which he too often tasted.
He will hold to this mental picture and measure everything you show him by it much to your disadvantage. "One of the worst possible things is to ask a man about what price suit he wants. "Keep price in the background. Time enough to feel him out on that subject. No man likes to have you take the measure of his pocket-book. "You must use your judgment in gauging him as to what to show him.
The doctor looked at him curiously, appreciating the depth of the man's emotion and gauging the strength of the superb creature he was. "I won't let you take me if it isn't safe," he told him, and turned to his patient again. "Do you expect to stay up all night?" he suddenly asked the girl. "I I am anxious to, if I can be of the slightest help." "One can never tell," he replied.
After all was complete, he stepped back against the door and squinted, gauging the elevation. It was to his satisfaction. With supple wrist and quick movements he uncoiled the small cotton rope he had brought with him and took two turns around the trigger of the shotgun.
This system consists in so gauging the fire of the anti-aircraft guns that the airman finds himself in a "box" of shrapnel; that is, one shell is timed to burst directly in front of the machine, another behind it, one above, one below, and one on either side.
But we here shall be of opinion, I am sure, that we only can learn causes through their effects; we can only learn the laws which produced Luther, by learning Luther himself; by analyzing his whole character; by gauging all his powers; and that unless the less can comprehend the greater we cannot do till we are more than Luther himself. I repeat it.
The task which fell to Hyde during the early months of 1660, in gauging the various influences at work in the country from which he had been banished for fourteen years, was one of acute difficulty.
He would have him rid of all discontent, all fear, all grudging, all bitterness in word or thought, all gauging and measuring of his own with a different rod from that he would apply to another's. He will have no curling of the lip; no indifference in him to the man whose service in any form he uses; no desire to excel another, no contentment at gaining by his loss.
It flushed and paled, his lips quivered, his brows were knit; the dark eyes were like clouds and fire at once. Evidently there was a struggle going on which she had no means of gauging. "What if he has?" she asked gently. "Would you care so very much?" "Care!" exclaimed David, and his expression startled her.
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