When Edwin Clayhanger employed, as it were, daringly, the accents of a master to this intimidating fellow, Hilda thrilled with pleasure at the piquancy of the spectacle, and she was admiringly proud of Edwin.
The best way to obtain allies, Lamachus had contended, was, to be prompt and decisive in action, and to strike at the capital point at once, while the intimidating effect of their arrival was fresh.
Go right at them before they expect it; and you will gain more by thus surprising and intimidating them, than you will suffer by their superior science.
The imposing and intimidating effect of the armament, not less than its real efficiency, was now at the maximum, immediately after its arrival.
The accusation of Marat was far from intimidating the Jacobins who accompanied him to the revolutionary tribunal.
They corresponded with each other, held very high andintimidating language, and seemed to frame themselves on the French model.
But when the door opened and the young man came in, when, not moving to meet him, she turned her head with a slight smile of welcome, all intimidating impressions passed away.
As the hours passed, and yet no light appeared, another intimidating circumstance manifested itself.
The cheekbones were high, massive, and polished until they shone in the light; the nose and chin were powerful in their contours; and the brow wore an intimidating frown.
Those who did not know Shannon well could not have seen his imprint on the creature's stark, intimidating face.
It was a hard and intimidating face, though with a gleam of sharp and illusionless intelligence.
Words ran so high on this subject after the sentence of the Star-chamber, that some alarmists in the privy-council urged the necessity of inflicting still severer punishment on the earl, and of intimidating the talkers by strong measures.
O'Hara began one of his gruff laughs, but he seemed to remember himself in the middle of it, and assumed an intimidating scowl instead.
He scowled once more in an intimidating fashion at Ste.
A member of a secret association formed among the tenantry in Ireland about 1843, principally for the purpose of intimidating law officers and preventing the service of legal writs.
All that they saw of him was his bushy tail and fleeing hind legs--a view far less ferocious and intimidating than his bristling mane and gleaming fangs.
He was sprawling along between some bushes, when he heard a sharp intimidating cry.
Therefore the hair stood up on end along his back and his lips wrinkled weakly in an attempt at a ferocious and intimidating snarl.
He heard again the intimidating cry, and at the same instant received a sharp blow on the side of the neck and felt the sharp teeth of the mother-weasel cut into his flesh.
She stamped her foot at him to be gone, and uttered a harsh and intimidating cry.
For fifteen minutes and longer he stood there, immovable, the master of the situation, the picture of the intimidating power of one resolute man over a mob.
They dashed as desperately at this fort as at the other and were equally successful, intimidating the garrison and spiking every gun they could find.
To the careless observer she was a cheerful woman, but the temple of her brightness was reared over a dark and frightful crypt in which the demons of doubt, anxiety, and despair year after year dragged at their chains, intimidating hope.
It seemed as if it would last for ever--till it finished with a gigantic and intimidating plop quite near the front of Lechford House.
Eight union carpenters were arrested for intimidating non-union men employed on a building on Canal street.
The Emperor, not aware that their audacity was owing to the protection of his minister, watched for an opportunity of intimidating them by an act of severity.
Some broken and battered, have lost their faces and preserve only their intimidating attitude.
Little by little it descends towards the base of the temple, revealing to us by degrees the intimidating presence of the bas-reliefs, the gods, goddesses and hieroglyphs, and the assemblies of people who make signs among themselves.
In short, he was instructed to employ the same ruse for intimidating the city as had been so successful at Maranham--the summons as well as the terms to be granted to the Portuguese garrison being similar in both cases.
Even this would not prevent the Portuguese from strengthening themselves in positions on shore, and thus, by intimidatingall other districts within reach,--enable them to bar the progress of independence.
They knew the influence or intimidatingascendency of the peers over many of their own members.
You failed to do so; you were silent while the fanatical war-faction was clamoring; and while the reckless pranks of the officers of the guard were intimidating good and sagacious patriots.
They whispered to each other that Napoleon had selected the prince merely for the purpose of intimidating the opposition by an example of severity, and of frightening the royalists.
Ignace stared now at his rival in love just as before he had stared at his rival in art,--yet held in check both by the intimidating splendour of the ceremonial and by his own uncertainty as to the precise significance of the situation.
The clerk was even more magnificent and intimidating than the house, but Jared faced him, and asked for space in which to show his work.
