A conscientious man can have no moreexacting duty than this, to care for the lives of a thousand men.
I was looking forward to taking up the more exacting duties there.
So the soldier was an exacting but a grateful audience.
The values and reflected lights of his nude bodies are academic enough to satisfy a modern student at Julian's, the most carping and exacting of critics.
He was an exotic that shot up in the forcing-house of his exacting genius, extracting vitality from Rubens the fertiliser, inspiration from Teniers, colour from Titian and Veronese, and encouragement from Gillot and Audran.
For Miss Whalley was as exacting as though the church were her own private property.
My own boy, you give me all that the most exacting woman could possibly desire and then ask me that!
It was not a very easy thing to amuse the exacting little fellow for a long time, but it was perhaps a very good thing for Christie that it fell to her lot to do so.
For Gertrude, vexed with herself and her failure, grew impatient and exacting with all the world; and as all the world was not at the young lady's command, a great deal of her discomfort was visited on Christie.
She almost always was patient when the children were in their exacting moods, and was always firm in refusing any forbidden pleasure.
So long as praise is genuine, few men are so exacting as to insist that it be also intelligent.
They know and if they give your well or spring a good character, the chances are that even the most exacting of families will find such a water supply adequate.
Here the fortunate commuter is free from exacting train schedules; a five or ten minutes' drive sees him outside the city limits, and another twenty or thirty may find him rolling into his own driveway.
At twenty-five he had secured his first view of the country from coast to coast and all down the central artery, he had been schooled in the exacting discipline of the printer's trade (see pp.
You must eat as you kiss, so exacting are the joys of the mouth,--talking, for example.
It was true I had many and good friends, and I was blessed with interests and occupations which I had often declared sufficient to satisfy any not too exacting human being.
The nation has, however, its obligations to the individual, and obligations as exacting as those of the individual to the nation.
For this reason, stern and exacting stimuli are required to develop a man to the full.
Did they somehow fail the eunuchs' exacting standards?
He was only a boy when Dowland's first book of galliards was published, but he had been made to learn them all by heart, because his exacting tutor had despised popular ballads and street songs.
When he lifted his head to ask who giveth this woman Archie bestowed Sally upon Abijah with just the touch of grace and dignity he had long noted as the accepted manner of giving a woman in marriage in the most exacting circles.
You score high in meeting his exacting requirements.
Salle, the fame of the elder ballerina was still sufficient to have satisfied a less exacting artiste.
For her role, which was a most exacting one--Mlle.
The courage which sustained me for the moment sank gradually as I meditated over my avowal, and I could scarce help accusing Power of a breach of friendship for exacting a confession which, in reality, I had volunteered to give him.
That will free you from all trouble, and I shall not be very exacting in my demands upon you.
He had grown up to manhood in an austere reverence for himself as regarded the other sex, and in a secret fear, as exacting for them as it was worshipful of women.
Provision, in much detail, against sheriffs or other officers exacting more than the legal fees.
They must have been exacting tax collectors, because we read also that, in 859, the Slavs rose and expelled their visitors.
This did not prevent him from exacting a double tax from the raskols in Moscow, nor from punishing cruelly any Russian converted to one of the western churches.
The bank's name went down, with the names of some others; and the clerks who had been working over hours on the new and exacting minutiæ of the undertaking were given a chance to divert their savings toward the novel securities.
It was little to Johnny that his thousands went up inexacting systems of ventilation and in salaries for an expensive staff; but it was awkward for Raymond to lose a sum which, while absolutely less, was relatively much greater.
It was very simple-hearted, as such things seem mostly obliged to be, but nature helped art out so well with a lovely abundance of leaf and petal that a far more exacting taste than ours must have been satisfied.
She schooled herself to remain calm, cheerful, and resourceful in the presence of suffering and exacting demands.
The Notho clan cherishes the intention of visiting Nayau, and exacting from their brothers an eye for an eye.
