His mastery over figures in its firmness of grasp, its lightning-like rapidity, its retentiveness, is almost as great as that of a professional calculator.
It is a power andmastery derived from a perfect House of Commons mind.
He had not yet recovered his old mastery of himself or the House; but his appearance was very different from what it was a few nights earlier.
But there is another and an even more extraordinary instance of the power, grace, and mastery of the mighty orator.
Let the Viking learn with broad-beamed boat the mastery of the western shore before he turns his boat's prow to the east.
Not least had he cultivated his musical talents in the Imperial city, and had acquired a rare mastery in singing and playing the lute.
He shivered; still, his youthful energy and powers of resistance were strong enough to give him speedy mastery over these torturing reflections.
Ippolito has been demonstrating the mastery of wine over matter.
When the wine had got the mastery of us, my cousin said to me, "O son of my uncle I have a great service to ask of thee, and I beg of thee not to baulk me in what I mean to do.
Then she fell to caressing him, so that love for her redoubled on him and got the mastery of his heart.
So he called to him and said, "O my lord, O thou that hast gotten themastery of my heart and my soul, thou to whom my bowels yearn, wilt thou not enter my shop and solace my heart by eating of my food?
So they drank and made merry, till the wine got the mastery of them, so that their cheeks flushed and their eyes sparkled and their hair became dishevelled.
We believe that club Asthmats (it is quite as good a word as "AEsthetes") practise in the Reading Room of the British Museum, where they acquire their extraordinary compass and mastery of various notes.
Mr. Thackeray's skill with the pencil bore very curious relations to his mastery of the other art, in which lay his strength, but to which perhaps he never gave his love.
As we passed swiftly over the white shell-strewn beach, backed by its palm groves and native huts and plantations of corn, I experienced a real sense of mastery over Nature.
Against the background of the deep, tropical, blue sky we watched that latest example of man's mastery over Mother Earth.
It is a fact that he reached the complete mastery of his style very early (much earlier than J.
The feature in Steffani's art, and that by which he is superior to all of his own time, is his mastery of the art of singing.
His organ music bears witness to his mastery in this style.
And our final mastery over the surrounding universe was expressed, when Jesus our Head rebuked the winds, and stilled the waves when they arose.
It is right to observe at every point, the masteryof Jesus, the perplexity and confusion of His foes.
Yet the physical trouble is dealt with deliberately, not in haste, as by one whose mastery is assured.
We then saw that this word expressed the direct and personal mastery with which He wrought, and which the apostles never claimed for themselves.
Let those who deny the Divine authority of this great institution ponder well the phrase which asserts its universal range, and which finds it a large assertion of the mastery of Christ that He is Lord "even of the Sabbath.
Fresh from asserting His mastery over winds and waves, the Lord was met by a more terrible enemy, the rage of human nature enslaved and impelled by the cruelty of hell.
That criticism seems to be more justified which has found in him a lack of such victorious energy and mastery over his materials as would have enabled him to carry out his conceptions in their original intensity.
The introductory lectures, and those on the early Greek thinkers, though they evidence wide reading, do not show the complete mastery that is found in Schwegler or Zeller; but the lectures on Plato are of considerable value.
The forms are now poor, though not lacking in grandeur, and the details are not as well adjusted as before, with a want of mastery of the most suitable decoration.
Caesar must have seen that the Germans were preparing to dispute with Rome the mastery of Gaul; but it was necessary to gain time, and in 59 B.
The elder Caffieri was, indeed, the most consummate practitioner of the style rocaille, which he constantly redeemed from its mannered conventionalism by the ease and mastery with which he treated it.
The man who can handle character and emotion with such mastery both of language and imagination is indeed a poet.
Criticism may note with admiration the unerring skill of dramatic structure; with delight the mastery of language, which constrains the simplest words to the greatest needs; with wonder the reading of the human heart.
The more thought stored up the more complete will be your mastery over the subject and the more abundant the materials from which to select.
Side note: O'Connell] It is said that the great mastery O'Connell exercised over the people mainly sprang from the passionate earnestness of his conviction.
The man that neglects to acquire a masteryof this instrument incurs a great responsibility.
How worthless and pernicious is this one word "Wait," here more than ever, where mastery of language is in question.
A mastery of the "Summa" will not prevent you from doing an awkward action.
The arguments of the free-thought lecturer are well reasoned, the sophistries artistically concealed, whilst his mastery over the graces of elocution holds his audience spell-bound.
His absolute mastery over drawing even induced him in his last years to abandon painting altogether.
An excellent drawing-master, he possessed an unusual mastery of perspective.
If Daumier by preference showed mastery in his men, Gavarni showed it in his women as no other has done.
So far from resuming the mastery of himself, he seemed, if possible, to lose it more and more, as the night crept on.
Our attack had evidently taken them completely by surprise and they had no flyers ready to dispute our mastery of the air.
So overwhelming was the force of American flyers, all armed with machine guns, that the Germans scarcely disputed the mastery of the air, and about seventy of their old-fashioned eagle type biplanes were soon destroyed.
He afterward became a pupil of the Warsaw Conservatory, and acquired there a splendid mastery over the science of music.
It required a sound mastery of the laws of household hygiene, some knowledge of medicine or surgery, and, above all, an acute and sympathetic faculty of observation.
The wide range of the book, and its mastery of detail on a great variety of subjects, are as remarkable as its firm and consistent grasp of general principles.
Her mastery of detail was ever at Mr. Herbert's elbow.
Miss Nightingale's mastery of the art of marshalling facts to logical conclusions was recognized by her election in 1858 as a member of the Statistical Society.
Joseph Kimchi, the founder of the famous Kimchi family, carried the culture of Spain to Provence; and Joseph Zabara may have acquired from Kimchi his mastery over Hebrew, which he writes with purity and simplicity.
The easy mastery of difficult rhyming which we notice in this piece is still more marked in the strange and beautiful romance named The Flight of the Duchess.
It would exceed the powers of the unambitious pen we wield, to convey to the reader a just idea of the mixed emotions that struggled for mastery in the countenance of Ruth.
They have learned their mastery over the heavy things; they have hewed to the Line, and built to the Square.
The masteryof self prepares man to make his answer to the world for his being.
No process of intellectual training could have brought him even the beginnings of mastery in this period--or in thirty years.
The mastery of this instrument would give them power to change any metal into gold, the cure of all diseases, and the happiness which must come from the practical knowledge of the supreme secret of nature.
To realise its influence one need only compare the easy mastery of the arabesque displayed in the simplest piano piece of to-day with the awkward and gargoyle-like figuration of Beethoven and his predecessors.
They heard him play, and were impressed by his mastery and poetic feeling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mastery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
