Second: the Allies failed to analyze correctly the troop situation on the eastern front, apparently failing to grasp one vital point.
Hooker was unable tograsp the opportunity, and realising this himself, he asked to be relieved.
I thought, "God pity her," but I said gaily enough that retribution must one day seize Claudia's dimpled hand and place it in the grasp of some gentleman fitly fashioned to school her.
Still shaking with terror are thy hands, but already they graspthe key, and rattle the lock, and slip the bolt.
And the same deathly dull languor hid the faces of the others like a veil of dust: they exchanged glances of dreary wonderment as though at a loss to grasp why they had met around the richly laden table.
He sensed this truth, but he was unable to grasp and name it and he eagerly sought new faces and new words.
And many other things he invented impiously, evidently failing to grasp that sickness comes to man not by chance but is born from a failure to shape his acts in accord with the commands of the Eternal.
Each of the sections shows us a mood, signalized by some slight link of circumstance which may the better enable us to grasp it.
But the root of his failure is this, and it is one which could never be even apprehended by a vulgar egoism: he longs to grasp the whole of life at once, to realise his aims in their entirety, without complying with the necessary conditions.
So far as we can grasp his personality, the speaker appears to us a highly-gifted and on the whole right-natured man, but possessed of a morbid self-consciousness and a limitless yet indecisive ambition.
The volume as a whole is full of weight, brilliance, and energy; and it is not less notable for its fineness of versification, its splendour of sound and colour, than for its depth and acuteness of thought and keen grasp of intricate argument.
Although he translated Ricardo’s book, he did notgrasp the fact that rent did not enter into price.
Many small figures and diagrams have been used throughout the text, in order to suggest the concrete means of getting a clear grasp of a principle.
Sometimes in their desperation they grasp blindly at other bodies, and try to enter into them, and occasionally they are successful in such an attempt.
They may seize upon a baby body, ousting the feeble personality for whom it was intended, or sometimes they grasp even the body of an animal.
We can hardly be wrong in referring this stirring proclamation to the year 508, when Theodoric sent troops into Gaul to save the remnants of the Visigothic Monarchy from the grasp of Clovis.
The form of the name makes it probable that the colonists were in any case of Ionian descent; but in historic times we find Scylletion subject to the domineering Achaian city of Crotona, from whose grasp it was wrested (B.
He did not hesitate to meet the full force of the invectives of the madman who fancied himself about to grasp the Empire of the world.
Do not grasp at more than the lawful dues; for the greedy hand closes a harbour, and extortion is as much dreaded by mariners as adverse winds.
Let them lay hands to the iron, but only to cultivate their fields; let them grasp the pointed steel, but only to goad their oxen.
I try to believe that with the altered standards of the city you have chosen your very fibre has so weakened that you cannot grasp the extent of the mistake you have made.
She bore a pince-nez upon her flat chest, the necessity for which was obvious, but her short-sighted blue eyes were kind and the grasp of her knuckly hand was human.
An interested cabby caught his eye, wagged his whip masterfully, wheeled up to them and with an apparently complete grasp of the situation whirled them off through a side street with never so much as a "Where to, sir?
Contempt is a tool I am used to grasp by the handle only.
And with that certainty he ceased to worry over the short-sightedness of a world which, till now, had appeared to him unable to grasp the idea that while beauty is only fur deep, ability goes to the bone.
When Allan was not running behind with a tight grasp on the handle-bars, he was usually perched at the back on the projecting runners; and for some time the dog had not noticed this additional weight.
Hoof testers with special jaws of sufficient size to grasp the largest foot.
A close grasp on the lead may interfere somewhat with head movements.
Yet it is impossible to look at an encyclopaedic attempt to grasp all knowledge and all history, such as that made by the founder of Positivism, without a deep, oppressive sadness.
What we rather offer is the testimony of those who have resigned their grasp on much that we may deem essential.
The captain knows full well that, if he lets her take it, the child will be torn from her grasp to a certainty; he therefore adopts a seemingly harsh, but really merciful, course.
In an instant the boat sinks into a gulf, sweeps away as far as the ropes will let her, and is buried in foam, while the woman is slipping from the grasp of the men who hold her.
Brown, struggling to free himself from Jones and leap after her, but the grasp of Jones is too much for him.
It is so elementary that even the dullest of Europeans can grasp the game at a few glances.
He made a desperategrasp and caught it by the gills just as the hook came away.
Of course every one started up and made a sudden grasp at weapons, for the memory of the recent fight was still fresh.
Stubbs made a wild grasp at a hatchet which lay under one of the thwarts.
Releasing Sam, with some hesitation he made a convulsive grasp at Robin with the other hand.
As well might he have struggled in the grasp of Hercules.
He almost touched her outstretched hand as she swept towards the turbulent waters below, but failed to grasp it.
Slowly, while almost choked with the water that splashed up into his face, he worked his right knee into a crevice, then made a wild grasp with the left hand at a higher projection of the rock.
Thus speaking, Vulcan seized the ponderous hammer in his powerful grasp and proceeded to beat form into a mass of glowing metal with much greater ease than he had been able to thump telegraphy into his own brain.
When, therefore, Stumps put out his hand to grasp his tumbler for another draught, his anxious friend inadvertently knocked it over, and then begged his pardon profusely.
While they were being laid down, the man who had fought with Robin made a sudden and furious grasp at Johnson's throat with one hand, and at his knife with the other, but the seaman was too quick for him.
He couldn't make his braingrasp in full the situation.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, and yet the earth is still in the grasp of that mighty being, who had shown to our Lord the kingdoms of this world claiming them as his own and offering the same to the Lord.
He admires her,' he thought; and often he would try his utmost to grasp the character of this man, who had lived such a roving life.
The ghastliness of this thought, brought home so utterly, made him writhe, and grasp the railings as if he would have bent them.
Without waiting to see if the girl would give consent, he drew her to him in a grasp that would admit of no resistance, and kissed her.
The terrified fellow shrieked and fled, and his cries rang through the castle, causing the men-at-arms to grasp their weapons and stand at attention.
Inch by inch the black steed drew nearer the Longdendale hack, until at length the Devil, by leaning over his horse's head, was able to grasp the tail of the doctor's horse.
The hunter awaits his approach with his gun extended: if his aim is not sure, he permits the animal to grasp the barrel, and as he carries it to his mouth (which is his habit) he fires.
Now, if I have my knife in my right hand also, you know what to do; you would try to grasp my wrist with your left hand.
I should have failed to grasp your wrist, and should in that case have leapt back again to my former position, for had I remained thus I should have been at your mercy.
But the colonel, while recognizing his shortcomings, liked him for his candor, and admired him for his effort and for the quickness with which he came to grasp things actual.
The masters of marts and exchanges dazzled but did not blind him, and he studied them, and strove to grasp the secrets of their strength.
Dutton, and he and his chums released their grasp on the rope, which was wound about a post.
Down they came into the blanket, but the impact was so heavy that it was torn from the grasp of the cadets holding it, and the freshmen landed on the mat with a thump and many squeals.
