She was an old mare who could still go when she chose, but had been schooled by the years, and kept the trail, giving no trouble to the Virginian who came behind her.
It was a remote, well-schooled eye that she lifted now upon him.
He had schooled himself all this time to bear the sight of her happiness, and now he saw that he must begin all over again to bear the sight of her misery.
Corrigan, interrupting; and the insolence, schooled and practised in many a trial, quailed before the look and gesture of the old man.
It had not indeed occurred to him to make the proposal as the young lady took it, but he was far too long schooled in gallantry to undeceive her, and so he said, "I really cannot see this in the light you do.
In her composed, schooled manner she despised and disliked both father and daughter exceedingly.
The dingy, dust-veiled Flats spoke a language that she was not schooled to understand.
The things that she had been schooled to hold as of the highest value she saw now for the first time in their just relation to the mighty underlying life of the Mill.
How are the Chinese, schooled for thousands of years in the effective operation of their own political system, to adapt themselves fast enough to the Western scheme?
When it is realized that the simplification of intellectual activity is offered to a people schooled in the idolatry of books, the potentialities of educational and intellectual renaissance--already partially realized--become apparent.
In times when foreign conquest of China is no longer in the realm of the improbable, it is worth remembering that the Chinese are a people adamant in resistance to force and schooled in centuries of rebellion.
Suffering from the tricks and malicious purposes of girls schooled in magic.
Our heroine had been too finely schooled in the etiquette and manners of the ball-room, to allow the most penetrating observer any means of ascertaining whether the incident just related was as pleasing to her as to her partner.
Schooled by Antigono, she gave the King and Queen such a version of her adventures as satisfied their inquiries in every particular.
Though Endymion was only sixteen, he was tall and manly beyond his age, and during the latter years of his life, his naturally sweet temper and genial disposition had been schooled in self-discipline and self-sacrifice.
To the disappointment which that course involved he had schooled himself, accepting it almost gladly as by so far the lesser evil.
His feelings, however wellschooled they might be, would not easily have faced a great distress on Christine's face.
Having been well schooled by their mothers the degradation was not altogether clear to them, nor the narrow space that divided them from their less fortunate and despised sisters.
They require also a natural aptitude, a schooled countenance, so that neither the eye, the voice, nor the mouth discloses their secret.
Bitter experience had schooledhim to it; for he lived among snares, pitfalls, and intriguing enemies.
Could not that same will of hers which resisted so bitterly be schooled to duty and to right?
For six weeks she had schooled herself to feel that she must leave her husband purely out of decent pride and self-respect.
It was not easily that he restrained himself, schooled his desires to decent expression.
The girl considerately schooledher pace to his, subjecting him to covert scrutiny when, as they moved on, his injury interested him exclusively.
She had schooled herself against all possibilities so as to win into the house of her dear George, yet at every moment she seemed to fall further from success.
Either the clerk knew nothing about Percival Nowell, or had been so well schooled as to disclose nothing of what he knew.
It was the instant for which he hadschooled himself, so he spoke to her in her own tongue.
Mr. Roland Van Dam secretly thought it all quite fine and inspiriting, but he was too highly schooled to allow himself much emotion.
Beneath Roly's rounded proportions was a deceptive machinery of bone and muscle that had been schooled by the most expensive instructors of boxing.
Torgul began and then schooled his voice to a more normal tone.
It is enough to say that, with one schooled as mine had been, injuriously, and with injustice, there is little certainty in any of its movements.
I was then little schooled in the intricacies of the female heart.
