As he sat in the midst of that animated group, cold, proud, silent but keenly observant, he vividly recalled the figure of the famous Kentuckian who once presided over the United States Senate, calmly noting the portents of impending war.
The eulogist was competent to speak; he was early in the field; he was close to the inner councils of the war; he saw and shared the struggle in every phase; and at the close, he calmly accepted the results.
But, meanwhile, Mr. Lizard had passed the equatorial line of the waistband, and was calmly exploring that part of the preacher's anatomy which lay underneath the back of his shirt.
The divine paused for a moment, calmly surveyed the unique spectacle, and then resumed his walk toward the War Department.
Nor was it easy to lookcalmly on this without thinking how the frail canoe would have fared in such a cauldron of cold water boiling.
The sergeant calmly gave him fifteen minutes in which to commence striking camp.
When the whole subject of Michelangelo's temperament has been calmly investigated, the truth seems to be that he did not possess a nervous temperament so evenly balanced as some phlegmatic men of average ability can boast of.
It is not difficult to give fetes here; if the simple architectural outlines are lighted up, the dome of St. Peter's blazes forth in the dark purple atmosphere, calmly shining.
I beg you then once more to weigh well and calmly the cause of our quarrel, which arose from my being displeased at your telling your sisters (N.
All I can say is, that I will oppose nothing which Edith calmlyand deliberately thinks is for her own happiness.
But she remembered howcalmly happy she had been in that dwelling six months before.
The former of these excellent ministers had recently lost his wife, and though he was ardently attached to her, he calmly preached her funeral sermon with the corpse lying before him.
The Yankee took it calmly and said yes, they had it in America, but it was a failure until a fellow-Yankee improved it.
He who dares assert the I May calmly wait, while hurrying fate Meets his demands with sure supply.
The situation, calmly reviewed, was one probably never paralleled in the history of adventure--more like the dream of a hashish-smoking addict than cold reality.
As neat a shot as the other's was bad," calmly remarked the Master, brushing from his sleeve some glittering splinters of glass.
Calmly he picked up his sack and without more ado jumped into the void.
Calmly the imams, with reddened hands, now cut wings and legs from the bodies.
For precisely ten minutes, nothing broke that silence--minutes during all of which the Master remained calmly waiting, with grave confidence.
Ruth calmly ignored this, and went about final arrangements in her usual capable manner.
The animal was calmly chewing its cud; but the very sidewise motion of its jaws seemed threatening to the two smallest Corner House girls.
Tingling and perspiring, Wetherell leaned out over the railing as the Speaker rapped calmly for order.
Chester tightened up his reins so suddenly that his horse reared, while Jethro calmly climbed into the seat beside him and they drove off.
Jethro was standing calmly on the grass plot, whittling a toothpick.
You know desperately little of that happiness so far; a remedy whose efficacy you have not tried yourself, without hesitation you calmly prescribe for your wife.
She threw the window open; without, all lay calmly and indifferently in the silvery coolness of the moonlight.
He did not so calmly bear the unworthy preference which Eva granted to an elderly gentleman, who surely already belonged to the Philistines, instead of bestowing her favours upon fresh, joyous youth.
The women in the house had been awakened by the noise; but accustomed to all sorts of alarms, they calmly waited to be told what it meant.
Upon that invitation the Indian folded his blanket calmly about him, and stalked in among the bushes.
Honoria calmly seated herself on one of the gilt chairs, and clasped her mittened hands in her lap.
I told him to go 'way back and sit down," answered Rushford, going calmly on with his meal.
While everyone else was fighting with excitement, Jimmy Wynter was sitting there, studying the jokes of his paper, ascalmly as though he were sitting here in this old club.
All unlearned though he was in these wolf-like (or any other) fighting tactics, Jan presented an imposing picture of rampant fury as he wheeled again to face his calmly resourceful enemy.
Look a man calmly through the very centre of his pupils and ask him for anything with a tone implying entire conviction that he will grant it, and he will very commonly consent to the thing asked, were it to commit hari-kari.
Let us walkcalmly through the cars, and look around us.
As I was listening to the merriment of the sooty buffoons, I happened to cast my eyes up to the ceiling, and through an open semicircular window a bright solitary star looked me calmly in the eyes.
So, then, I had been within ten miles of the place where my wounded soldier was lying, and then calmly turned my back upon him to come once more round by a journey of three or four hundred miles to the same region I had left!
Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear.
Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
The man who thinks should accept simply andcalmly the surroundings in which Providence has placed him.
Louis Bonaparte half rose from his chair, and gazing fixedly at the general, calmly said to him: 'Very well!
Meanwhile, Pierre sat on his heap of straw calmly playing his ridiculous game, calling out the numbers as the dice fell, but keenly alive to the slightest sound.
He had now reached my rooms; and never shall I forget his look of astonishment, of amazement bordering on incredulity, when I calmly came forward, took his hand, and welcomed him to Cambridge.
Mastering my feelings by a violent effort, I forced myself to speak calmly to this malignant old brute.
I seated myself in an easy-chair and looked at my betrayer with a calmly critical eye.
Calmly comparing the ordinary lives of men and beasts--judging them by their abstract virtues merely--I am inclined to think the beasts the more respectable of the two!
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