Her influence, against which so long he had steeled himself, reinforced by the debt in which she had shown him that he stood towards her, was prevailing with him despite himself.
And for all that he steeled his heart, and evoked the memory of Suzanne to strengthen him in his purpose: he approached her with a kindly exterior.
I had steeled myself against the meeting, with a cold, panicky dread.
The man had steeled himself to receive a volley of bullets in the back.
Hawthorne was as uncomfortable on his feet as were Thackeray and Irving; but his resolute will steeled him for the trial.
He went up to Drake's to learn the worst, steeled to a full confession.
Fred's sunken eyes rested on Bojo's an interminable moment, and the agony written on that fevered face steeled Crocker in his resolve.
His healthy body, steeled in the palaestra, felt no fatigue after the sleepless night passed amid so many powerful excitements when he retired to his chamber and committed himself to the hands of his slave.
His love of Corsica and hatred of the French monarchy steeled him against the luxuries of his new surroundings.
This was the dread personality that urged Talleyrand and Joseph Bonaparte to their utmost endeavours and steeled them against any untoward complaisance at Amiens.
Then Atys stood and cast his well-steeled spear With a great shout, and straight and well it flew; For now the broad blade cutting through the ear, A stream of blood from out the shoulder drew.
A gashly auld thought, sure enough; yet us steeled ourselves to it.
Danger indeed lurked in this act, but Sally felt steeled to it and well prepared to hazard any reasonable risk.
Bob heard the car slow down now and he steeled himself for what he felt was going to be an unpleasant encounter.
She steeled herself to endure its touch, against sickening repulsion she fought to achieve a smile that would carry a suggestion of at least forgetfulness.
She had purposes which she must carry out, and she steeled herself.
It all vexed Lord Mallow; but he steeledhimself to urbanity, and he played his part well.
Behind the intoxicating, soft appeal of her eyes, he perceived a dangerous glitter, and steeled himself.
He had steeled himself against a possible humiliation at her hands--but to be humiliated before the half-breed!
There she lay now, helplessly smitten down, as if shattered by the blow which should have steeled her strength for enhanced resistance.
Yes, I loved him, loved him with such ardour, such pain, as only a heart can love which has been steeled by the glow of hatred and suffering.
The wisest of men fell shamefully, captured by coarse lust, and apparently steeled against all remonstrances from Heaven.
But for the moment he steeled himself against the latter opinion.
And while he pondered, and now scanned his paper without reading it, and now stole another glance at her, he steeled himself against her.
A rough lump gathered in the throat of Rukh’s Raja—and because his heart sickened at the refusal he must make—from his point of view he must—he steeled his voice, and spoke more stiffly than he felt.
And her resistance but whetted his purpose, steeled his will.
The fourth week after his arrival he was able to aid, with arms whose muscles had beensteeled in the pakestra, the men in their fishing, and Dionikos in his boat-building.
The first shock of Melun's entry over, Kathleen steeled herself against all fear, and calling her pride to her assistance disdained to ask any questions.
He was steeled against cunningly and swiftly-dealt blows, such as he himself administered, but this declaration of Sir Paul Westerham, that he intended to marry the Lady Kathleen, took him quite aback.
Love had steeled his will and quickened the pace of his steed, and the gratitude of answering affection, the reward she could bestow, should be withheld no longer.
Hatred seemed to have steeledthe weak women's hearts against the fear of death, pity, and feminine dread; and the furious yells of these Megaerae destroyed the courage of many of the braver Hebrews.
As if it were an irrevocable decree, the girl steeled herself to hear.
But now, resolved and desperate, she steeledherself against him.
His heart had been steeled against her when he found harbored under her roof the objects of his rage and loathing; but he felt now that that must have come to pass with some intention of benefit to himself.
If there had been less of his mother in the lad's appearance, or any thing of his father in his character, his heart might have been steeled against his youth and innocence of transgression.
But the public at home steeled their hearts and fixed their eyes steadily upon Natal.
