When to her armor of beauty Bessie added the weapon of fearless, incisive speech, the risk of affronts was much abated.
For the space of five or six years he is denounced with a unanimity and an incisive vigor that ought to convince him there is something wrong.
In degree of inflation of auditory bullae, in length and width of incisive foramina, and in shape of pterygoid fossae they are as in Z.
This individual has the larger, broader, auditory bullae and more widely bowed incisive foramina of Z.
Other cranial characters, size of the incisive foramina, shape of the foramen magnum, and shape of the auditory bullae, indicate relationship with Z.
Zapus hudsonius campestris in the shape of the nasals, incisive foramina, and in breadth of the zygomatic arch.
Greatest distance across incisive foramina perpendicular to long axis of skull.
In color of ears, length of zygomata, and size and shape of the incisive foramina these specimens are more nearly like Z.
Similarities such as tooth-rows diverging anteriorly, nasals narrow posteriorly, interorbital region broad, and incisive foramina enlarged posteriorly are added reasons for placing Z.
As he vaulted over the low wall, pursued by a Manchu, he heard Kobo's clear voice, incisive amid the tumult, addressing the Chunchuses in their own tongue.
Great banks of cloud were looming up across the sea; the wind was rising, and the air had that incisive rawness that portends snow.
He had some points of intellectual contact with Voltaire, though substituting a staid temper and passionless logic for the incisive brilliancy of a mocking Mercury; he had no relation, save an unhappy personal one, to Rousseau.
This book is unique among modern histories for a combination of force and insight only rivalled by the most incisive passages of the seventh book of Thucydides, of Tacitus, of Gibbon, and of Michelet.
The American Thoreau writes in the course of an incisive survey:-- Carlyle's .
Taliter, qualiter; but one or two remarks on the incisive summary of this adroit and able theorist are obvious.
Other letters of the same period, from London, are studded or disfigured by the incisive ill-natured sarcasms above referred to, or they relate to the work and prospects of the writer.
Finally the sharp, incisive voice of William Spantz broke through the babble, commanding silence.
There was a quick, incisive call to arms; a squad stood ready for action.
When she had told him the whole story, and answered some of his incisive questions, he said: "Well, I am thinking you have a good deal to be grateful for.
In the first place he had never known a girl like Christina, so beautiful, so perfect physically, so incisive mentally, so full of a fine artistic perception.
Now let us settle exactly how we stand," said Lupin, in a clear, incisive voice.
At the sound of the incisive voice Adrian had returned with a slight shiver from distant musing to the consciousness of the other's presence.
And as then Mrs Fyne uttered an incisive "It's what I've said," which might have been the veriest echo of her words in the garden.
The language is crabbed, uncertain, archaistic--in no point displaying the incisive brevity of Machiavelli's style.
There was pungency enough in his epigrams, in the slashing, coarse, incisive brutality of his style, to make his attack formidable.
He went on speaking swiftly, with incisive earnestness, as one not to be denied.
With incisive tones, he said: "How could you so mistake me?
A remarkably clear and incisive essay in defense of woman, entitled De l'égalité des deux sexes, appeared in Paris in 1673.
A singularly clear and incisive exposure of the Hardships of the English Laws in relation to Wives was published in 1735.
For vivacity, his style, at once incisive and elegant, may be compared with that of his contemporaries Heine and Börne.
Though theoretically correct, it was open to an objection, which was urged by Bonaparte and Talleyrand with suave yet incisive irony.
To Bonaparte's trenchant reasons and incisivetones the theorist could only reply by a scornful silence broken by a few bitter retorts.
He gave a brief resume of what he had said, and Lord Baudesert, in a few incisive sentences, threw a flood of light upon the subject.
I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by my friend's incisive reasoning.
Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the mostincisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.
As she only continued to look away, the desire seized him to say something so incisive that the implacability of her face would have to change, no matter to what.
He had not consciously recalled the words, nor had they even made a very incisive impression on him at the time; but they had evidently lain dormant, now to return and to strike him, as if no others had been said.
The story of the greatest human migration of all the ages is told in vivid, incisive and picturesque style.
The King now intervened in an unusually incisive manner.
Mrs. Claude could not refrain from laughter at this incisive summing-up.
These admonitions and promises had been spoken in an incisive tone of authority; but in the next sentence the preacher's voice melted into a strain of entreaty.
Tis well said you Florentines are blind," he began, in an incisive high voice.
Mariette did not take the trouble to lower her hard incisive voice as she told her sister the brief story of the revolution in Berlin.
On the night before her departure the four girls huddled in her bed after the opera and listened to an incisive account of her brief but distasteful period of matrimony.
It was then that Monica displayed the quick, incisive working of her suddenly aroused mental faculties.
