The next moment he had caught her with irresistible masterfulness in both his arms and drawn her down to him as he knelt, whilst his eager lips sought hers with a mad longing for a kiss.
He was a gentleman in spite of his shabby clothes, and his masterfulness rather pleased her--hitherto Judy had ruled every boy within her domain, and Launcelot was a new experience.
Don't you dare tell them that you did it," he whispered, and once more she felt the masterfulnessof his tone.
And the sympathy combined with a hitherto unmet masterfulness conquered Judy.
The child's manipulation has an element of masterfulness in it, for he not only likes to see things perform, but he likes to be the one that makes them perform.
She only knew that his ridiculous way of taking possession of her, the very masterfulness of it, moved her strangely.
She tried to think, tried to ask herself if she loved him, if she loved him enough; but the fancy for him which she had had from the beginning, that and his masterfulness swept her irresistibly towards him.
Every woman longs for strength, masterfulness in the man she loves; she would rather be mastered by a strong man, than be master of a weak man.
The quiet masterfulness of Leicester impressed her.
He was silent a few seconds, and seemed at a loss how to proceed, while Olive Castlemaine sat, scarcely realising the true condition of affairs, at the same time feeling the masterfulness of the man who spoke to her.
His work was to portray it as it moved, and in that conception of his mission he established his masterfulness as an artist, though it abates somewhat, does it not?
Ten years of Cromwell’s masterfulness had been enough to convince them of the absolute futility of opposing the King in any matter on which he had set his heart.
And at no time is the masterfulness of the latter’s domestic administration better exhibited, than by his action at home the moment the first rumours of an invasion reached England.
The center of sensual, manly independence, of exultation in the sturdy, defiant self, willfulness and masterfulness and pride, this center is steadily suppressed.
Upon Wilding, indeed, and his notorious masterfulness did she found what hopes she still entertained of winning back Sir Rowland.
In his heart he resented Hiram's masterfulnessand his secretiveness.
In the flush of his masterfulness he would not permit them to lay finger on dish, pot, or pan.
Along with divers other qualities it had taken masterfulness for him at twenty-nine to be superintendent of our street-railway system, now owned and operated by Northern capitalists.
Men, such as they had never dreamed of, bravely dressed, and bearing themselves with a gallant masterfulness which frightened those who saw it for the first time.
It was late in the afternoon when the shipowner came striding along the white, palm-shaded road, purpose and masterfulness in every movement.
There was usually a look of masterfulness in the firm lines of his face, the straight, direct glance, the stiff, close-cut moustache.
But already he was feeling himself back in the personality of Clifford Matheson--the hard, firm lines had set again around his mouth, the look of masterfulness was in his eye.
And Britt marched up to them, raucous and domineering with the masterfulness of the river tyrant.
With quiet masterfulness Wade took it from her hand and smiled into the astonished gray eyes that flashed back over her shoulder at him.
Think of the brilliant Queen, whose glories our greatest poets were not ashamed to sing, with the Tudor masterfulness in her, and not a little of the Tudor grossness and passion, and remember the blots that stained her glories.
No wonder that his elevation quickened the growth of his masterfulness and gloomy, impetuous self- will,--traits in his character which showed themselves very early in his reign!
Its bashful modesty contrasts sadly with the almost insane masterfulness and arrogant self-will of his later years.
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