In Cornbridge they spoke of her with bated breath as a "rare masterful woman," and they had good cause.
Masterful and domineering was Lady Linden of Cornbridge, yet she was kind-hearted, though she tried to disguise the fact.
He would not hear of it at first; but Lady Linden had made up her mind, and she was a masterful woman.
As he advanced he carried his masterful nose high in the air, but his head turned slowly from side to side in the helpless manner of the purblind, and he called in a high, querulous voice for the captain.
That swarming cavalry, those countless footmen, themasterful guns--they had tried and tried to make head against them.
Being a tall man, Dodds could see over the others, and there, at the side of Holloway, he saw the masterful nose and aristocratic beard of the second stranger in the coffee-room.
At a sign of opposition or a word of argument his chin would shoot out from his cravat, his masterful nose would be cocked at a higher and more insolent angle, and his bamboo cane would whistle up over his shoulders.
Jack Melland threw back his head with an air of masterful complacency.
He laughed at that, and took a step forward, like the masterful Jack of old.
It is the smile of a most masterful and cunning intellect; but no one fears it: it seems as harmless as your mother's.
The Bosnian Question sprang out of a conflict of racial claims, which two masterful men, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Austrian Foreign Minister, Aehrenthal, were resolved to decide in favour of Austria.
His fine presence, masterful personality, frank, straightforward, and kindly demeanour early impressed the Khan and his turbulent Sirdars.
Will the future see the hapless, unguided efforts of to-day championed in an equally masterful way?
French troops in his capital, and his harsh and reactionary policy (or rather, that of his masterful Secretary of State, Antonelli) before long completely alienated the feelings of his subjects.
A very masterful man, hale and florid and of a full habit.
The spirit of the Anglo-Saxon race, masterful in language as in war and commerce, has subjugated all these various elements to one idiom, making not a patchwork, but a composite language.
Despotic is commonly applied to a masterful or severe use of power, which is expressed more decidedly by tyrannical.
She shudders at JOHN'S masterful touch and clings to her lover.
The masterful man in getting out of people what he wants, is the man who makes the people want him to have what he wants--makes them keep giving it to him fresh out of their hearts every day.
In our politics it is the masterful servants we are taking to most.
These he saw with a discerning eye and portrayed with a masterful brush.
Some of his compositions, portraits, and miniature heads in the Yale Art School at New Haven are drawn and painted in a masterfulmanner and are as valuable for their art as for the incidents which they portray.
And now a finale of masterful construction begins.
Those who believe in masterful and potent leaders of humanity may be puzzled to account for the triumph achieved by this common-place arbiter of destiny.
The devotion of the Jesuits to the Papacy, was in reality the masterful Spanish spirit of that epoch, masking its world-grasping ambition under the guise of obedience to Rome.
I look to somewhat nobler and higher: indeed I would desire nothing less than to be married by the King and become the mother of a beautiful Prince, a model of form and in mind as masterful as valorous.
You do feel like that with these quiet, masterful sort of people, whether you care for them or not.
No stern, masterful men and women are they as some future moonstruck novelist or historian bent upon creating legendary lore may portray them.
Masterful in his mortal weakness, he became the center of a nation's love, enshrined in the prayers of a world.
And American statesmanship will be all this if it draws its inspiration from the masterful American people and their imperial history.
Under the marble portico the mistress is sitting exactly in the place we can imagine the old Greek loved most what time he read from his masterfulcopy of Homer.
Lady Charlotte had a large fair face, with a great deal of nose and chin, and an erection of lace and feathers on her head that seemed in excellent keeping with the masterful emphasis of those features.
But the alertness and force of the man's whole expression showed that, if the body was beginning to fail, the mind was as fresh and masterful as ever.
If these reflections betray to the reader a certain masterful note of confidence in Mr. Flaxman's mind, he will perhaps find small cause to regret that Rose did give him a great deal of trouble.
But Colonel Boyce, it appeared, had made up his mind, and Harry was surprised at the masterfulease with which, keeping the empty fun still loud, he extricated himself and his unwilling son.
His accession to power was, however, speedily to prove that he was possessed of great abilities, a masterful will and a keen and eager ambition.
Masterful voices and confident human laughter filled all the wild inhabitants with wonder and dismay.
The truth was that the great wolf had profited by his period of captivity in the hands of a masterful man.
He could be very masterful when he chose, and with sudden impulsive impatience he bent and kissed her.
But there was nothing very masterful in the way he spoke her name; his voice only sounded very shamed and humiliated as, after waiting a vain moment for her reply, he turned and went slowly away.
With masterful tact and force he assumed responsibilities that made men shudder.
