Almost incredible, in fact, to any one who is familiar with the normal processes of the literary mind, was Mark Twain's fear of public opinion, that fear which was the complement of his prevailing desire for success and prestige.
His feelings for Malory, we are told, was one of "reverence": the reverence which he felt was the complement of the irreverence with which he acted.
That night he had seen her among men, the perfect complement of them, and the flower of womanhood.
Yet she had everything against him, because apart from his grave abiding love for her he possessed an object and interest in life, and because she was a mere complement and he was not.
She was the complement of his existence, but he was not the complement of hers.
The natural and practical complement of mysticism is asceticism; and asceticism is another of the elements of religious morality that are becoming daily feebler in the presence of the modern spirit.
Our historical and political sketch will serve as a complement to those primary notions.
Another defective point in this improvisated legislation, is its pretension to satisfy the requirements of the future by admitting, as a complement to the body of the statutes, all the ukases issued, or to be issued by the emperor.
With the final word of Virginia's explanation the fierce old master of men was up and clutching for the secretary's throat, and the working complement of the Rosemary suffered instant loss.
The Atlantis carried the Royal Mail and a full complement of passengers, among whom were some distinguished names.
The complement to this agreement is less clear: We cannot define what replaced, or could replace, religion.
They point to conditions under which new means and methods pertinent to effective functioning complement or override those of transcended pragmatic contexts.
But surely no one pretends that this theory satisfies the demands of Scripture language, and fills up the complement of its idea.
There is further complement of leaue-taking betweene France and him, pray you let vs sit together, if our Father carry authority with such disposition as he beares, this last surrender of his will but offend vs Reg.
The time will not allow the complement Which very manners vrges Kent.
In Christ the soul gives being to the body, inasmuch as it makes it actually animated, which is to give it the complement of its nature and species.
It is not too much to say, that he formed a complement which they needed, and they were a complement equally necessary to his "make-up.
At the native camp near which we halted for the night, we enriched our clans with one variety more, by hiring a canoe and its complementof Chinooks, to accompany us.
Her Majesty's warship Modeste, with her complement of officers, lay in the broad river, opposite the fort.
Her building programme provides for two new "Dreadnoughts," and the proper complement of smaller craft, each year.
There was nothing he could not do or make, and in spite of his loss of a limb, he was as active as most people possessed with the usualcomplement of supporters.
We soon had our full complement of men, and having got clear of the dockyard people, were ready to go out to Spithead.
Down into the bowels of the ship plunged the resolute, undaunted heroes who remained behind, the chosen complement reserved for just such an emergency by the far-seeing master.
The party was made up of a dozen men, half of them from the gun crew, with an additional complement of laborers from the steerage.
In advance of them were the British guns, with their sadly reduced complement of gunners.
The Surprise had less than half the complement of the Hermione, and not much more than half her weight of metal.
The fierce, surprised glare of the eyes added the complement of expression.
The one-sided assertion of individuality and difference in the schools of Locke and Leibnitz was the natural complement of the one-sided assertion of universality and unity in the Cartesian school.
I ordered the goddess and her paramour to receive their full complementof blows (viz.
Your cracked roof and crumbling walls of to-day are but the complement of yesterday's lofty towers and spacious halls.
The straggling bramble is but the complement of the shapely garden tree.
Your endive and watercresses are but the complement of the elephant-sinews and camel's hump of days bygone; the maple-leaf and the rush, of your once rich robes and fine attire.
Much of the copper and brass complement of households had been turned over to the government, and most copper roofs were being replaced by tin.
Without this complement it was impossible, however.
Calvin does not view it so much as a channel of Divine grace as a rite for profession of faith and solemn prayer, and as such would have confirmation continued as a necessary complement of infant baptism.
