Fortunately for history, and for the progress of popular government, the Stuart line had no forceful figures in it.
Lincoln knew its letter well; he cared for its spirit more, and he found his strength not in the familiar saying that God was on his side, but in the more forceful one that he believed himself to be on God's side.
Like other peoples, the negroes have inserted them into their religion as forceful symbols.
In either case it expresses in a very forceful way the importance of meeting the train.
It was a tribute to the forceful personality of the fair surgeon, if one were needed, that the squeal he uttered was a subdued one.
Jane Hubbard moved to the foot of the bed, and her forceful gaze, shooting across the intervening counterpane, pinned Eustace to the pillow.
Surely he was almost thirty, of average height, appeared strong, and as if he might have a forceful brain; but he was loosely jointed and there was a trace of domineering selfishness on his face that was repulsive to her.
He was undoubtedly one of the forceful personalities of his dynasty.
The forceful, energetic character, like the forcefulsoldier on the battle-field, not only moves forward to victory himself, but his example has a stimulating influence on others.
Abraham Lincoln in his early manhood was quick tempered and combative, but he soon learned self-control and, as all know, became as patient as he was forceful and sympathetic.
Which, to you, is the most forceful and significant?
By so doing he guards against wandering and inadequacy of treatment and makes for the unified presentation of one forceful thought.
Not long ago one of the most forceful and eloquent public speakers in Utah failed miserably, in addressing a thoroughly fine audience, because he was lost in the machinery of his notes.
The XIV century added more defenses till the rock became the most forceful example of mediæval military architecture.
An acting out through her form, by another intelligence, a deep sense of wrong she had received, may have made her seem as mad in the eyes of Winthrop, as the learning and forceful utterances of Paul did him in those of Festus.
Forceful and rapid approximations of hands and feet under control of invisibles, toward the bodies of surrounding witnesses, and marvelous arrestings of those moving limbs so that no contact ensues, are of very frequent occurrence.
Though not a polished, he was an intelligible, logical, andforceful writer in the main, and did much toward accomplishing the reformation to which he devoted his energies.
We are no longer in the presence of a simple and forceful idea, but behold a thousand incidents, a thousand little details, exquisite in themselves, but which require a search.
And as they disappeared a good deal of laughter, a good deal of forceful talk, came from the place which had swallowed them up.
Mr. Hanbury-Green was a forceful person, unhampered by any of the instincts of a gentleman, and therefore armed with a number of weapons for winning his battles.
It was warm and beautiful, but, so forceful is a hostile atmosphere created between two people, they both found it impossible to make conversation.
I replied that it was much more comprehensive and forceful than I had believed it possible for the nations preliminarily to agree upon.
He was by far the ablest and most forceful diplomat in Constantinople at this period.
Bliss and Dwight I prepared such a document, and I am glad to be able to say that our protests came in time and were sufficiently forceful to prove effective in preventing this new legislation.
Sad not because of any lack of works of originality and power, but sad because of the wanton neglect with which the German public of those years treated its ablest and most forceful writers.
While all that is virile and forceful in it increases, there is less and less of the rigid and formal.
Had he not been an autocrat indeed, the Salvation Army would not exist to-day, for it sprang from his brain like Minerva from the head of Jove, and has been driven to success by his single, forceful will.
Braunhofer, who proved to be even less considerate of the patient's wilfulness; he was so blunt and forceful in his demands for obedience that Beethoven was somewhat awed, and beneficial results followed.
This is the key to Schindler's forcefulobservation after the financial fiasco of the concert.
These are the most notable and forceful reminders of the relative prominence obtained by mediaeval pontiffs, prelates, and peoples.
Altogether, as an accessory to the cathedral, if to no other extent, this Lombard detail is forceful and interesting.
The play often leads to exposition, and many dramas are written with the evident intent of teaching a deep and forceful lesson.
She does it; she's a remarkably forceful woman, but it frets her.
In fluent English, apparently smooth with long practice on the same theme, he wove felicitous and forceful elaborations on the proverb relating to people who are absent and the estimation in which they are held by those present.
