Barker paused; then a slow, calculating smile creased his lips.
There was a hard, calculating light in his eyes--eyes which alternated between a soft, friendly blue and a steely gray.
He knew human nature, feminine nature, far too well, ever to have been in doubt for a moment that Marguerite would follow her husband without calculatingeither costs or risks.
His ferocious egoism, his unbounded ambition was even now calculating what advantages to himself might accrue from this idea of the new religion and of the National fete, what personal aggrandisement he could derive therefrom.
The matter outwardly seemed trivial enough, but already his keen and calculating mind had seen various side issues which might tend to place him--Robespierre--on a yet higher and more unassailable pinnacle.
The two others followed him into the little room on the bridge, sitting down to a table in which the track chart of the ship's course lay, and all were busy for some few moments calculating and working out our latitude and longitude.
Laura and Wilton stood silent for a minute or two, listening to every sound, and calculating how long it might be before the horse was saddled and the Duke upon his way.
Others stood staring up into the rigging, as if calculating when the sails must needs be rent and the voyage end.
They watched each other furtively, and Guest could see how hard his friend was evidently planning to get rid of him, while, on his own part, he was calculating his chances.
This question can be most conveniently answered by studying the seasonal variation in the birthrate, calculating back to the time of conception.
Robert listened with a calculating seriousness of manner that quieted her physical dread of his passion.
Major Waring had set a deliberately calculatingeye on him.
The calculating machines they had brought would certainly prove worth their mass in this one use.
They were at work calculating some problems that Arcot had suggested in connection with the velocities of motion that had been observed in the stars at the edge of the island universe they were approaching.
After breakfast, they all went into the room they used as a calculating room.
His remarkable calculating or counting faculty was brought into operation in what we should call fantastic ways.
Taking the average length, and calculating how far a dozen falls would carry him, he resolved to keep the horse till the twelfth fall was accomplished.
I have ruined him already;' and then turning away from the infant, he thrust his hands deep into his trousers-pockets, and went on calculating about the shares.
In ordinary calculation of the intelligence quotient without any mechanical aid (as slide rule, calculating chart, or table), both age and mental age should be reduced to months before dividing.
Finally, in calculating the intelligence quotient of subjects who are more than sixteen years old, the chronological age should be counted as sixteen.
Now, proud Cinq Mars, andcalculating Bouillon, you are in my power!
There was a cool, calculating expression upon his sharp and cruel countenance, and he did not appear to be half so earnest or excited as his antagonist.
RULES for Calculating the Absolute Gravity in English Troy Weight of a Cubic Foot and Inch, English Measure, of any Substance whose Specific Gravity is known[64].
Example for calculating the Corrections relative to the Variations of Pressure and Temperature.
Example for Calculating the Corrections relative to the Variations of Pressure and Temperature, 337 SECT.
RULES for Calculating the Absolute Gravity in English Troy Weight of a Cubic Foot and Inch, English Measure, of any Substance whose Specific Gravity is known, 505 No.
I had won my reputation in Paris as the stolid, unemotional Englishman; a man of iron, a creature without passions or human weaknesses, a calculating machine.
It was useless to speculate upon chances; there was no hope of success in inaction; and the only resource was to drive through all obstacles without calculating the risk.
The donkey is a much more calculating animal than the camel, the latter being an excessively stupid beast, while the former is remarkably clever --at least I can answer for the ability of the Egyptian species.
The other day I was calculating the average age of the ten old Forsytes from my father's family Bible.
The book is for the heart and the soul, not for the calculating head and worldly mind.
Calculating (chiefly in the sense of self-command), the compasses in her right hand.
Venice was the only power of sufficient strength and stability to engage in more extended schemes of policy, and even these were conducted, as has been already noticed, in the narrow and calculating spirit of a trading corporation.
This was a flight, however, beyond the spirit even of this romantic age, and probably received as little serious attention from the queen, as from her more cool and calculating husband.
Presently, the vitalities of the locomotive having been restored, the train rolled on, and Lorrimer took to calculating the chances of fulfilling his appointment that evening.
At any time his anxiety would have been extreme while peril threatened Frank; but now, when he was calculating on him as a companion at many a well-spread table, when they might forget their past miseries, it peculiarly affected him.
These are not merely our opinions, but those of the most shrewd and calculating of the Free-Traders.
It is impossible to imagine a greater difference in character than exists between the hot-blooded Southerner, and the cold calculating Yankee of the eastern States.
I could not help imagining, as he turned it right and left from one to the other of the passengers, that he was calculating what price he could obtain for them in the market.
With calculating machines or whatever will follow calculating machines after Earthmen and all the others find the next faltering step after a few thousand years.
