He spent his days in the workshops, mastering the processes of manufactures, and his nights in reproducing on paper what he had learnt during the day.
He spent the afternoons picking up canzonets and mastering them.
Mastering all signs of surprise, she gave her greetings, and presently told him she had come to talk on a family matter, and with this glanced quietly at the servant by way of hint.
But masteringhis fears,—those fears which owned the influence of avarice far more than that of danger or of crime,—he held the lantern over the hole, and plunged his eyes into its depth.
But, mastering his feelings, he again looked towards the mysterious and fearful drama which was being enacted on the opposite bank of the pond.
The hatred of the serf-mastering caste toward their new ruler grew blacker and blacker; but he never flinched.
Then came the failure of the Revolution in its direct purpose; and of this failure the serf-mastering caste was a main cause.
For, evidently, absolutism was the only force, in that age, which could destroy the serf-mastering caste.
His Faults in Policy crystallized about one: for, while he subdued the serf-mastering nobility, he struck no final blow at the serf-system itself.
The spirit of the serf-mastering caste, as left by Richelieu, was a main cause of the miseries which brought on the French Revolution.
It might seem, to one who has not noted closely the spirit which serf-mastering thrusts into a man, that the nobles would appear in the States-General not to make complaints, but to answer complaints.
If School-master Peter is a wise man he'll go school-mastering to another place, and take his wife with him.
I don't suppose village school-mastering will satisfy you long.
I know him," said Rouletabille, seating himself and mastering his emotion.
Despairing of mastering its subjects unaided, it had called Russia to its assistance, and the Tsar, in a manifesto dated 13 May, had announced to Europe that he was marching against the Hungarians.
The serenity of the night ended by over-mastering me; I brought myself to believe that we had triumphed already, and on reaching home I went straight to sleep.
How does the desire to rise in life become the all-mastering passion, and, should it prosper, the all-atoning consolation of our life?
She is quite serious about her art," put in Cicely; "she's studied a good deal abroad and worked hard at mastering the technique of her profession.
The mastering of the air and the creation of a scientific aerial war fleet, second to none in the world, was an achievement of which the conquering race was pardonably proud, and for which it had good reason to be duly thankful.
Aurelius, is mastering the best minds, both Stoic and Platonist.
On the morning after my return from Hampshire I took Marian upstairs into my working-room, and there laid before her the plan that I had matured thus far, for mastering the one assailable point in the life of Sir Percival Glyde.
That the king had a talent for mastering details cannot be doubted, and this is even admitted by the late John Richard Green, in his “Short History of the English People,” chap.
The onemastering passion of his soul was the passion for deeds--to do; to serve; to be used.
He moved quickly toward her but she checked him, and while the love in her eyes answered to the mastering passion in his, she seemed in some subtle manner to build up a protecting wall between them, a wall to guard them both.
When the door closed Theo turned round, mastering himself with an effort.
As the conquest of the most hardly conquered enemy, the sudden mastering of a passion--thus does such abnegation appear: hence it passes for the summit of morality.
The whole ethic of the sermon on the mount belongs in this category: man has a true delight in mastering himself through exaggerated pretensions or excessive expedients and later deifying this tyrannically exacting something within him.
The Duc de Saint-Simon, incapable of mastering ideas of a religious order, carps and jeers at Madame de Maintenon as one who thought herself an "universal abbess.
Indeed his ingenuity knew no bounds, when it came to mastering some musical difficulty.
Often at night, when all were asleep, he would steal away to the garret and work at the spinet, mastering difficulties one by one.
On the other hand, American students rarely study classics long enough to acquire much facility in mastering the literary contents of the ancient writers.
For there is small hope that this interest will be aroused in the youth when the years of boyhood have been devoted merely to the mastering of preliminary knowledge.
He was only capable of masteringone idea at a time.
On the other hand, if Miguel was a spy, in the pay of the French, it was little likely that they would have allowed a despatch to pass through their lines without mastering its contents.
Though the mastering of the objective in the Saint-Mihiel operation released a certain surplus, it was disturbingly small.
Their efficacy was dependent upon these two features and upon the prevision of the division command in mastering the problem beforehand.
Its students worked long hours in the enthusiasm of mastering their profession.
But her hungry fondness for the baby grew with gratification, and there was no mastering her in the matter.
He may resolve, and his experience of forty or more years in "practising decision" and in persisting despite counter inclinations may only increase his chances for mastering a problem, overcoming a difficulty and developing enthusiasm.
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