The line remained steady, and, with fire deliberate and well aimed, quickly drove off the assailants.
As the revisers of the reports for publication have had the best opportunity for deliberate examination and for comparison of the reports with muster-rolls, their estimate of casualties is perhaps the most trustworthy.
Major Brown's estimate was evidently the most deliberate and careful, yet it is not free from error.
Being called upon at the council of Jerusalem to deliberate on the propriety of circumcision to Gentile converts, he maintains that God gives his Holy Spirit as well to the Gentiles as to the Jews.
A loveless marriage is a catastrophe for any girl, but for Lilias it would mean moral suicide: a deliberate settling down into a selfish, self- seeking life!
Gurney; "the deliberate way of working that the people have got into will make it quite a week before the loading is finished, which will bring moonrise to somewhere about the time you mention.
Some of the most charming of the city's old homes are tucked away where the visitor is not likely to see them without deliberate search.
Adventitious circumstances, such as racial feeling and idiosyncrasy, the deliberateor accidental fusion of two or more myths by a priesthood or by force of popular belief or acquiescence.
But nothing will content my dear correspondents but to have me declare that the majority of ballet-dancers have villas in the Regent's Park, and to convict me of "deliberate falsehood.
Then you think that Yolande was the victim of a deliberate attempt upon her life?
Somehow I suspected her of a deliberate intention to mislead me in this matter.
I regard, sir, the imputation I have spoken of, as either a gross mistake of the simple, or a cunning and deliberate calumny of the crafty.
It would cease, you observe to be your support were you not "persuaded that it is able to sustain the most deliberate investigation.
Chesterton refers to one who "had that rational and deliberate preference which will always to the end trouble the peace of the world, the rational and deliberate preference for a short life and a merry one.
For it has sometimes been thought that justice required only a deliberate estimate of interests by those best qualified to judge, as though the settlement of moral issues were a matter of connoisseurship.
There is a deliberateintention to promote survival, those interests alone being restricted or suppressed which do not comply with this intention.
It may be deliberatein the sense of being consciously persisted in, but I cannot find any rationality in it.
In the second place, the deliberate judgment of any rationally minded individual is entitled to respect as a source of truth.
Such an idea as the deliberate compilation of a code never occurred to him, and there is no evidence that he ever referred to his former decisions in similar cases, so that possibilities of contradiction and evasion are limitless.
Certainly from the time of the Kureisch failure to capture Medina he had set his deliberate aims towards its humiliation.
Not the slightest necessity for that, now," said Linton, with a low, deliberate voice.
Warren Hastings, as a deliberate measure of policy, withheld the tribute due to the emperor, and resold Allahabad and Kora to the wazir of Oudh.
The Quarterly Review attacked him with deliberate malignity, stopped the sale of his writings for a time and blighted his credit with publishers.
Hazlitt retaliated by his Letter to William Gifford (1819), accusing the editor ofdeliberate misrepresentation.
He spoke solemnly, as befitted a Scotsman expressing a deliberate opinion, and carefully, as if choosing his best English, for when Geordie became excited no one in Black Rock could understand him.
It was a purposed and deliberate communication of His Secret of Happiness.
That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to live than not to love.
Manning took deliberate aim at him--so deliberate as to excite the impatience and call forth the protests of some who were near him--and fired, shooting the man through the heart.
Still less did they themselves suspect that their career of crime was so near its close, or that they were making deliberate plans for their own destruction.
His steadfast resistance to the robbers' demands, therefore, was not due to a hesitating policy, or to the mere obstinate impulse of the moment, but was the result of a deliberate purpose and conviction of duty.
So long as I frequented her house, she felt safe from her persecutors; and her main ambition was to commit me to an open and deliberate partiality.
The gentlemen I have just named can bear witness to the sincerity of my coldness for this play, which afterwards, by a succession of accidents, came to be regarded as a deliberate satire on a single individual.
As he walked along the country road, his pale countenance became seraphic; just so may the face of Lucifer have looked when he plumed his wings for deliberate flight from heaven.
Learn from this experience, however, that there can be no deliberate violation of, or blaspheming against any moral or natural law.
So in a definite, deliberate way, youth should be blended into the middle life, and the resultant should be a force that will stretch middle life for an indefinite period into the future.
