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Updated: May 31, 2025
The fans played slowly, as if to heighten the fires of the precious stones, and at each beat wafted around an odore di femina blended with a predominating perfume of violets. "Hallo!" exclaimed Narcisse, "there's our good friend Monsignor Nani bowing to the Austrian ambassadress."
Now, if a book is indeed useless you cannot bear to read it, and since you do read it, it must certainly contain something interesting which renders it agreeable to you; it pleases some faculty of your soul, some habitual thought of your mind, some predominating disposition of your heart. That a book may be read without profit is quite true.
In youth and early manhood Colonel Stackhouse was noted for his strict integrity and sterling qualities, his love of truth and right being his predominating trait. As he grew in manhood he grew in moral worth the better known, the more beloved. His chosen occupation was that of farming, and he was ever proud of the distinction of being called one of the "horny-handed sons of toil."
All these small farmers keep donkeys and mules, and on market-days the roads are alive with cavalcades; the men wearing gay waist-sashes, flat cloth caps, or berets, the women coloured kerchiefs. The type is uniform medium stature, spareness, dark eyes and hair, and olive complexion predominating.
A good tenor falsetto is in fact a reversion to boy-soprano with, however, the quality of adult high voice predominating to such a degree that it has the tenor timbre; and in proportion as the high notes of the male voice result from artificial training instead of from natural capacity, the boy-soprano timbre will creep in and weaken the tenor quality in falsetto.
"We are rejoiced to see you," said the mother of the juveniles, a stout woman of mixed nationality that of Dutch apparently predominating. She spoke English, however, remarkably well, as did many of the Cocos people, though Malay is the language of most of them.
Do you think he can take us over the mills tomorrow?" she appealed to Amherst. "I'm afraid not; I am sure he can't. He has a touch of bronchitis." This announcement was met by a general outcry, in which sympathy for the manager was not the predominating note. Mrs.
Frequently I have thought that the reading of this charming book may have been the predominating influence in the development of my taste and temper; for it was while I was absorbed in the exquisitely pathetic story of Robinson Crusoe that the first island I ever saw dawned upon my enchanted vision. We had weathered Cape Sable and the Florida Keys.
The sun had set in what seemed to be an angry glow, with yellow predominating. "Are we safe right here, if the wind chops around, and comes out of the north?" asked cautious Will. "Yes, for that arm of the land will shield us all right," declared Jerry. So the night set in. Darkness gathered unusually early, it seemed to the chums.
That there is another world after this one in which man is rewarded and punished can be proved from reason, from Scripture and from tradition. It is not likely from what we know of God's wisdom and goodness that the measure of happiness intended for the soul is what it gets in this world. For every good here is mixed with evil, the latter even predominating.
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