Then in the decisivemoment she forsakes him, a victim of his rashness--and stood you then unmoved?
Besides, the decisive crisis even of a deception is so momentous to the deceiver himself that excessive anxiety may produce in him symptoms as violent as those which surprise excites in the deceived.
The absence of the enemy's fleet at this decisive moment revived his hopes.
The Netherlanders in this decisive moment surpassed themselves; never in the whole course of the war had they fought with such determination.
The orders of the state consequently were but imperfectly obeyed, and the decisive moment was more than once lost by the negligence, not to say the open mutiny, both of the land and sea forces.
Well, well, it shall content me: let but something Be done, let only some decisive blow Set us in motion.
But as concerns Europe, it is plain to be seen, for reasons stated in my first chapter, that the decisive victory of Charles I.
It was not until 1649, after a persistent struggle, that the deputies won a decisive victory over the assistants and secured for Massachusetts a definite code of laws.
The cabal accomplished nothing because of the decisive defeat of Presbyterianism in England.
The grand crisis for the Puritans had come, the moment when decisive action could no longer be deferred.
Now, my dear, you have before you the reason why I suspend the decisive negative to the ladies of his family.
Still, Philip had had time to note the prompt and decisive way in which this girl had grasped his purpose and carried out his instructions.
In fact, the latter represented such a decisive advance that the German artillerists did not hesitate to appropriate their improvements in sundry essential details, and to incorporate them with their own weapons.
It is the homogeneity of the attacking fleet which tells, and which undermines the moral of the enemy, even if it does not wreak decisive material devastation.
The aeroplane, however, would have the advantage both in point of speed and powers of climbing, while there is no doubt that the sight of the mine swinging in the air would exert a decisive moral effect upon those in the airship.
The war has demonstrated very convincingly that the personal quality of the aviator often becomes the decisive factor.
This vulnerability of the essential feature of the flying machine is a decisive weakness, and exposes the aviator to a constant menace.
This attack, they knew, must bedecisive or all would be hopeless.
Rrisa caught up a handful of sand and flung it toward the unseen enemy, in memory of the decisive pebbles thrown by Mohammed at the Battle of Bedr, so great a victory for him.
Hawke's murmured astonishment was at once cut short by thedecisive notes of Berthe Louison's flutelike voice.
The Major paused with suspended pencil, as he quietly approached the decisive question: "And at Delhi, what am I to do?
I asked him before I was of age, and he refused in the most decisive manner to consider it.
But she drew back farther and said in a more decisive tone: "Oh, no, no!
The battle was hardly decisive and General Lewis wished to follow and annihilate the fleeing enemy.
The eastern end was cut from the whole and named for General William Campbell, the hero of King's Mountain, one of the decisive battles of the Revolution.
She liberated Orleans, that great city, so decisive by its fate for the issue of the war.
Dahlmann afterwards described this as the decisive turning-point in the fate of the parliament.
Never was there given a more decisive testimony to God’s hatred of sin, and to the certain punishment that will fall upon the guilty.
The Lord bears long with their perversity; but the decisive hour will come at last, when their destiny is to be decided.
Silently, unnoticed as the midnight thief, will come the decisive hour which marks the fixing of every man’s destiny, the final withdrawal of mercy’s offer to guilty men.
God has given in His word decisive evidence that He will punish the transgressors of His law.
It will be determined to strike in one night a decisive blow, which shall utterly silence the voice of dissent and reproof.
They do not meet it, as did Christ, with decisive and determined resistance.
The wide diversity of belief in the Protestant churches is regarded by many as decisive proof that no effort to secure a forced uniformity can ever be made.
Luther’s opponents, burning with a desire for revenge, urged the pope to take decisive measures against him.
But this divergence only forms part of a still broader and more decisive contrast.
Their claim to a place in the Canon is, or has been, disputed: and therefore he records every decisive notice respecting either of them, e.
Among the latter the most decisive examples frequently refer to those very Epistles which modern criticism has striven to discredit.
Notwithstanding its brevity, Polycarp's Epistle contains decisive coincidences with or references to between thirty and forty passages in the New Testament [94:2].
I have said nothing yet about the direct testimony of a late anonymous writer, which (if it could be accepted as trustworthy) would be decisive on the point at issue.
Though there may be one or two doubtful instances, the language of Irenæus is most commonly decisive on this point.
It is not however in this testimony which his extant work bears to the Fourth Gospel, however decisive this may be, that the chief importance of Tatian consists.
They know how and where to take hold, even in the face of a totally unexpected and unnerving situation, and they have what amounts to an instinct for doing the right thing in a decisive moment.
There have been great and distinguished leaders in our military services at all levels, who had no particular gifts for administration, and little for organizing the detail of decisiveaction either within battle or without.
When engaging the enemy, the most decisive task of all junior leaders is to make certain that all men along the line are employing their weapons, even if this means spending some time with each man and directing his fire.
Books can't be clipped; but short, decisive passages can be copied, and longer ones can be made the subject of a reference item.
He sees rightly enough the main point, that these things are but derivatives of other inner qualities which must be possessed, if the leader is to travel the decisive mile between wavering capacity and resolute performance.
But no commander or instructor can convince men of the decisive importance of the object if he himself regards it as only an intellectual exercise.
The moredecisive the action becomes, the greater becomes the vitality of the bond.
Out of reinvigorating men toward the taking of many small actions develops the possibility of large anddecisive action.
He is extraordinarily clear, lucid, and decisive in statement, and though he is an advanced scholar, he is an extremely practical one.
My orders were clear on this point--never make a decisive move unless you are positive you are right.
I knew that something decisive must soon be done, as the time set for Maroney's trial was rapidly approaching.
To deprive him of this will be a severe blow, and, if done effectually, will be of great advantage to us, and probably, the most decisive act of the war.
It was, indeed, a decisive blow to the Confederate cause in our quarter, and changed the whole aspect of affairs in West Tennessee.
It is important that the question should be finally determined; and, in order to do so, the names of some of his nearest friends are given below, followed by clear and decisive statements, for which they are separately responsible.
In the latter part of July he was finally overtaken by the volunteers under Henry, along the bluffs of the Wisconsin River, and defeated in a decisive battle.
He then went over to the office of "The Journal," where other friends were awaiting decisive intelligence.
And she is not handsome," declared the young miss with a decisive air.
Eight years had passed since that disaster, and the intelligence that the whole united fleet was to fight a decisivebattle with the English had now roused my master to a feverish enthusiasm which seemed to have renewed his youth.
But no sooner had he heard that the united fleets were making ready for a decisive battle than his moribund fires rose from their ashes, and he dreamed that he was calling up the crew in the forecastle of the Santísima Trinidad.
In short, lay aside every book, and every thought, that does not directly tend to this great object, absolutely decisive of your future fortune and figure.
Remember that it is your decisive moment; whatever you do there will be known to thousands here, and your character there, whatever it is, will get before you here.
In like manner, the Independent Labour Party and Union of Democratic Control are forces exceedingly sensitive to German influence, and in a decisive moment can be set in motion by the German "comrades.
That this calculation was decisive for Russia's change of front is confirmed by a witness whose impartiality even our opponents will admit.
My dear Lord, "The lines which I sketched off on your hint are still, or rather were, in an unfinished state, for I have just committed them to a flame more decisive than that of Drury.
