Everybody is of the firm opinion that the Mayor is going to give that old hypocrite a jolt.
No head of a business firm was likely to stay in his office so late in the day as that, she knew.
But Shirley's firm little lips were set, and her head had that tilt that her mother knew meant business.
There was still that spirited lift of her chin, that firm set of the sweet lips, that gave a conviction of strength and nerve.
Shirley tilted her firm little chin at the thought, and declined to ride with Graham and Elizabeth the next time they called at the office for her, on the plea that she had promised to go home in the trolley with one of the office girls.
We have just had word that Mr. Baker of thefirm died last night in Chicago, and I must go on at once.
Graham, Walter Graham, big firm down near the city hall--guess you know 'em.
Shirley spoke coolly and held her little bag close in the firm grasp of her two hands.
With this firm determination she hurried up to the veranda where her mother sat with Doris, and told her story.
I assure you, Miss Hollister, our firm appreciates what you have done!
Going from the mountains of Wyoming down into the tropical heat of Nebraska made me perspire a good deal, and nothing but the firm and irresistible restraint thrown about me by an eminent divine kept me from swearing.
I would write to the Commissioner of Pensions in my vivacious but firm manner and he would send me back a humorous little circular showing me that I had been too hasty and premature.
She had boldly declared her firm conviction of Annie's guilt, and had broadly hinted at Mrs Willis's favouritism toward her.
Her deep distress and her very firm refusal to disclose what she knew had made a great impression on her school-fellows.
I fancy she's as hard and firm in herself when she wants to conceal a thing as that rocky sweetmeat which always hurts our teeth to get through.
Her face was very white, her eyes shone, her lips expressed a firm and almost obstinate determination.
She was leaning back in the carriage and her eyes were closed, but she felt that firm fingers removed the irons from her wrists, and that a pair of warm lips were pressed there in their stead.
Her eyes spoke the reply; her eyes veiled with tears, that wandered with heart-breaking anxiety from the hollow circles round his own to the lines of weariness about the firm lips and jaw.
For a while he sat thus, while in his drawn and haggard face she could trace every line formed by his thoughts--the frown of anxiety, the resolute setting of the lips, the obstinate look of will around the firm jaw.
The passionate lover, hungering for his beloved, had vanished; there sat the man with a purpose, the man whose firm hand had snatched men and women and children from death, the reckless enthusiast who tossed his life against an ideal.
But his look did not answer her firm appeal; it was fixed far away beyond the prison walls, on a lonely country road outside Paris, with the rain falling in a thin drizzle, and leaden clouds overhead chasing one another, driven by the gale.
To it she walked with a firm step, and as she entered it she waved a last farewell to Sir Andrew Ffoulkes.
Then the well-known firm step across the rooms beyond, the open door, the hand upon his shoulder.
These acts of generosity on the part of Napoleon did much to disarm their hostility, and many of them became subsequently firm supporters of his power.
The firmattitude of the cabinets of London and Berlin, backed perhaps by the counsels of Russia, is supposed to have procured this result.
Mechanically, as he ended, the minister's hand closed the lid of one of the iron boxes, and on the closed lid he rested his firm foot.
The broidered coats are thickening under imperial auspices; and Napoleon is winning a host of firm supporters among the broidering girls of Nancy and of the metropolis.
It has a strong prickle, nearly a quarter of an inch long, with very sharp and firm end, projecting on each side of its gills.
When the deposits of any one person amounted to ten pounds (the minimum sum received by an ordinary bank), he was presented with an interest-note upon any banking firm he chose to name for the amount.
His firm conviction was, that the delay in the present instance had tended not only to improve the bill, but to diminish the chances of opposition to it when introduced.
Many a firm of unimpeachable honour and unquestionable solvency was compelled to bend before the storm.
He had nothing with him, not a note; and his voice was firm but very gentle.
Then we have an excellent manager in whom the firm trusts implicitly.
He had followed Jess Hutton's advice, but no word came from the city except the weekly remittance from his firm and letters urging him to sell stock.
Before thefirm of Weston & Hill had been established he had been the manager of what is known as a bucket shop, and when that failed (as they always do, soon or late) he began his career as a promoter.
I've been out of work now since the firm failed, you see.
Mother gave the firm all her money to invest, and it's gone, and she is very ill.
It had opened that morning at ten and one-half, by noon rose to twelve and one-quarter, and at the delivery hour of two was firm at fourteen.
For a time, and while Winn Hardy was serving apprenticeship, the firm conducted a fairly honest and respectable business.
He arose early, worked late, and evenings wrote his firm a detailed statement of his progress, or discussed matters with Jess at the store.
He had organized two or three glittering bubbles before the firm of Weston & Hill was established, but from lack of capital failed to reap the hoped-for reward.
And, although she laughed and shook her head, I knew that the thought, once implanted in her mind, would obtain firm root, for she was full of daring and ambition.
Then something grabbed me by the leg in a firm and bony grip.
I suppose Flaten will be entering his father's firm now?
And her anger grows, while I am assured and fatherly, standing on the firmground of conscious virtue.
And then it thundered beyond all measure, not long and rumbling, but firm and clear and rattling.
Twelve years of school had laid no foundations in her young mind, though it had loosened much that wasfirm within her.
But that did not matter, as long as she kept a firm hold now.
And when she was comfortable, Ridley cross-examined her maid about everything, and was soon on firm ground.
The Middle Ages are noted for the weird mysticism and the deep fatalism characteristic of a people believing in signs and portents and the firm hand of fate.
I'm only doing my duty," said Penelope, with her beautiful lips as firm as Grecian marble.
Gordon nearly fainted, but Pen was firm, asfirm as a rock.
Coming to Paris with a firm purpose to become a Parisian, a man of the world, he has taken you for his model in everything, and I do not conceal from you that he would be very glad to study his model at closer quarters.
We now meet everywhere with the firm opinion that the question of Homer's personality is no longer timely, and that it is quite a different thing from the real "Homeric question.
Friends," he said in a loud but firm voice, in order to make himself heard by the thirty or forty men grouped about him, "there is nothing more to be done here.
I am firm to primitive Episcopacie, not to have it extirpated (if I can hinder it.
You may find him mentioned in the American Encyclopaedia published by the firm of Lippincott & Co.
Rivington of London is another enterprising firm in the same line.
But I, supported by Euphemia, remained so firm that we anchored a short distance from Pelican Island.
As we intended to stay some time in London, where I had business to transact for the firm with which I was engaged, we immediately began to make ourselves as much at home as possible.
I am sure there is firm ground beneath us, but it will not do to move.
The simple villagers of Flintbeach had a firm faith in the strengthening effect of looking at a tipsy doctor.
Contrary to Mrs. Lozier, "they are firm in their conviction of the expediency of mingling the sexes in all scholastic training.
The firm hand of Ike Matthews now took control of the situation.
So far as Bent Senior could see, these accomplishments were his only equipment for his eventual control of the great business of the firm of which his father was the founder.
She was a tall, slender girl of the athletic type, sinuous and strong, with a skin so firm and ruddy from the air that it glowed crisply as though shot with mica.
On that day new articles of partnership were drawn for the firm of Bent & Company, into which Jeff Wray was now admitted.
Then he walked rapidly to his long writing-table, cheerful energy and decision beaming from his face, and with a firmhand he rang his bell.
And have you any prospect of succeeding in arranging a firm alliance with Hanover?
Herr von Bismarck had returned to his cabinet with a firm step, and had seated himself at his writing table.
King William was silent for a moment, then he fixed his eyes with a look of firm resolution on his minister, and answered: "Then the ambassadors shall declare war!
The discontent and restlessness had gone from their faces, and their looks expressed high courage and firm determination.
In firm bold characters the king wrote his initials, "G.
Wendenstein leaning his head on his hand and gazing up at the stars; "I remain firm in my opinion that your stomach is out of sorts, and what more natural, after the early rising and fatigue of the day?
Your excellency stands so firm on the Roman basis it would be impossible to set you aside; I, for my unimportant self--well, who have we who knows and can work all the German embarrassments?
The king held out his hand to him in silence, and without glancing at the crown prince, or the ministers, with a firm step the general left the room.
Leonhardt answered shortly, in a clear, firm voice, "No!
His face was pale and weary from the distress and excitement of the last few days, and from a sleepless night, but indomitable courage and firm determination shone in his eyes.
It is my firm conviction that in concert with Hesse Cassel you should conclude a treaty of neutrality with Prussia.
I got up an agitation in Florence, and in a short time firm negotiations were established, the result of which I will lay before you.
The other member of the firm was in complete contrast to his partner.
A fetwa from him would summon around the standard of the Prophet all the fanatical hordes of Islam to fight to the death against the infidels, in the firm belief that death on the battlefield is a sure passport to Paradise.
When they found that neither prayers nor menaces had any sort of weight, but that a firm resolution was taken to reduce them to unconditional obedience by a military force, they came to the last extremity.
There is no equality among us; we are not fellow-citizens, if the mariner who lands on the quay does not rest on as firm legal ground as the merchant who sits in his counting-house.
The distress I have felt upon this occasion cannot be expressed, and can only be allayed by a firm performance of the other articles of the treaty, which I shall make it my business to enforce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
