His red beard bristled as he spoke with the force of his superior judgment; and as the boy watched thunderstruck, the red beard came nearer and nearer in a menacing way until at length he could feel the bristles sticking into his face.
Yes, it is even so," he rejoined, anxious to show his superior knowledge.
There was something verysuperior about it, though very gentle and indulgent; and a thing or two she had said to him before flashed back into his mind.
But where the intellectual and argumentative Smythe had failed, what could be expected of these simple mountain folk, who for all their sturdy independence were not a little awed by the superior poise and distinction of their visitor?
He was in command of the regiment now, for those superior to him had been killed, and he directed and accompanied that charge.
But, remembering that the occupation of it gave him a certain standing in the county, whereas in Harwich he would have been only a superior tradesman, he gave up the idea.
The first class cars were the finest I have seen in any country--very far superior to American cars, and in many respectssuperior to the English.
This institution, however, is not superior to those of its kind in many other countries.
On the 2nd of April, Marshal Soult's army having advanced from Seville, with a view to raise the siege of Badajoz, the covering army began to retire before the superior numbers of the French.
They were formerly mounted on horses of superior weight and physical power, and few troops could withstand a well-directed charge of the celebrated British Horse.
He governed, not by force, but by his superior intelligence, his self-control, his mildness and magnanimity.
The king is advised by a council of five ministers, thesuperior members of the class of mandarins; and the kingdom is divided into about fifty provinces administered by members of that body.
The resident superior is assisted by the protectorate council, consisting of heads of French administrative departments (chief of the judicial service, of public works.
The superior party, however, maintained Mosta'in on the throne, because they feared lest Motazz should take vengeance upon them for the murder of his father Motawakkil.
The cavalier section of society had inherited the sentiment of chivalry, and contrasted with the roundhead not more by its loyalty to the person of the prince, than by its recognition of the superior grace and refinement of womanhood.
To this I was induced by no frailty, so much as his superior virtue, and the little care you took to marry me again.
With due respect my body I inclined, As to some being of superior kind, And made my court according to the day, Wishing her queen and her a happy May.
Love and obedience to her lord she bore; She much obeyed him, but she loved him more: Not awed to duty by superior sway, But taught by his indulgence to obey.
Chaucer might obliquely insinuate the superior valour of the warriors, and virtue of the ladies of Albion, by proposing to them the worship of the laurel, as a more worthy object of devotion than the flower.
It will hardly be disputed, that the original is much superior to the translation, though the last be written by Dryden.
He said, at once dismounting from the steed; For now the hell-hounds with superior speed Had reached the dame, and fastening on her side, The ground with issuing streams of purple dyed.
The country-bred heifer evidently thought herself superior to every one in the castle.
They are, intellectually, in a position much superior to that of a fashionable lady of my acquaintance who informed me that her daughters were going to the theatre that night to see Shakespeare's 'Turning of the Screw.
No creature on earth ought to be superior to us either in power or permanency.
Though gifted already with the powers which characterize superior men, he was but a boy.
Though he was superior to the cleverest men at Court, and perhaps to his patroness Catherine de' Medici, the astrologer knew Lorenzo to be his master.
But why was there no man then living who was superior to the age?
His Theocracy is sublime, and his creed is the only acceptable one to superior souls.
Those new laws would arm the composer with new powers by supplying him with instruments superior to those now in use, and perhaps with a potency of harmony immense as compared with that now at his command.
The two Cardinals and the two Balafres were, as it happened, four ambitious men, superior in political gifts to any of the men about them.
There were so many, that the smallest princelings were superior men.
Superstitious and a fatalist, as many a man ofsuperior mind has been, her only sincere belief was in the occult sciences.
While you are far more beautiful to me than this beautiful scenery, you also seem to me to be superior in intelligence to all the rest of humanity.
They recalled to mind that their superior official had once said, "If you wish to find the east, stand with your eyes towards the north, and you will find what you want on your right hand.
Of middle height, well and quietly dressed, with a sober, assured deportment, he spoke in a voice and accent that were not of the Five Towns; they were superior to the Five Towns.
He seemed to need something in self-defence against the sudden attack of all this wealth and all this superior social tact, and the motor-car served excellently.
Cregeen had paid thirty-five pounds for the Fleetwinz, a craft immeasurably superior to Denry's nameless tub.
This was, perhaps, part of her superior splendour.
Further, as a special inducement and to prove superior advantages to ordinary slate-clubs, he would allow the working man to spend his full nominal subscription to the club as soon as he had actually paid only half of it.
Could it be true that she, his superiorin experience and in splendour of person, had kissed him?
The knowledge that Germany had a superior artillery acted as a stimulant in making the British provide a better equipment of big guns.
For that, I answered, I was only responsible to my superior officer.
It could be applied with special success where the German information service was superior to that of the Russians, as it usually was, and the movements of German troops were facilitated by good railway connections.
It was shattered, however, against the unbreakable manifold ring of the Russian inclosing lines and against the superior forces which were brought in time to the threatened points.
The German staff accurately calculated on the preponderance of heavy artillery, and that Russia would be compelled to bow low before the superior blast of cannon fire.
FORCE, Justice of the Superior Court, Cincinnati; late Brigadier-General and Bvt.
Hooker probably thought if Lee assailed a superior force in an intrenched position he would certainly be beaten; and if he did not attack he would soon be forced to fall back on his depots near Richmond for food and ammunition.
To put them in at once, and direct them to drive a superior force of Lee's veterans out of a town where every house would have been loop-holed, and every street barricaded, would hardly have been judicious.
Congress had passed a law authorizing the President to put any general over any other superior to rank if, in his judgment, the good of the service demanded it, and General Meade now assumed this power in the name of the President.
Louis acquitted himself bravely, and rapidly rose in favor with his superior officers.
And the majority of wealthy people do go to the country to breathe the superior air, to survey these superior forests and meadows.
When we crossed the swollen Potomac, although threatened by an enemy superior to us in numbers, I felt that we would not be pushed.
Grant had been drawn into a region that he did not like, where he could not use his superior numbers to advantage, and he must be shuddering at the huge losses he had suffered already.
The long list of his triumphs, as youth counted them, was indeed superiorto those of the great Carthaginian, and he believed that Lee would repel this new danger.
As the Southern leaders had foreseen, Grant was throwing in the full strength of his powerful army, hoping with superior numbers and better equipment to crush Lee utterly that day.
He comes from some place up the valley and they say that the North itself has not his superior in financial skill.
If General Lee is attacked on the banks of this river by greatly superior forces," said Sherburne, "he'll have no time to build bridges.
Harry saw, too, that his own opinion was that of his superior officer.
He went over everything again and again and he concluded that he must rely upon his superiorkeenness of ear.
Since you have lost your boat and your rifle and we're in such a treacherous and unstable element as water, I occupy the superior position.
He knew that no man, however great his courage, could fail to appreciate his position in the heart of a hostile country, with a lost field behind him, and with superior numbers hovering somewhere in his rear or on his flank.
Harry hung back a little, fearing lest he might be regarded as thrusting himself into a company so much his superior in rank, but Lee saw him and beckoned to him.
When it gets into the poultry yard, the superior size of some of its victims does not alarm it; a goose will serve its turn as well as a chicken.
It is considered that the Bat's powers of flight are superior even to those of the birds.
In this matter the Brown Rat, from his superior size and ferocity, has the advantage, as is emphasised by an incident told by a professional rat-catcher to Frank Buckland.
At a glance there is little beyond its superior size to distinguish the Sand Lizard from the Common Lizard; and in consequence the earlier records of its occurrence in certain localities have had to be severely revised.
This, of course, is due to the fact that every man's hand is against them, and it is only the individuals of great cunning and superior physique that survive to continue their kind.
I could see that she was not disappointed, but her generous admiration in no way interfered with the consciousness which filled her of her own superior dignity and grace.
I felt that I was now superior to my step-mother by right of that cultivation, more even of heart than of mind, which had never been bestowed upon her.
So Brandon's superior penetration discovered the true character of Cigole.
This little family group stand amidst all the other passengers, separated by the wide gulf of superior rank, for they are manifestly from among the upper classes, but still more so by the solemn isolation of grief.
At first, while intent upon his work at the ship, the sight of the barren horizon every day did not materially affect him; he rose superior to despondency and cheered himself with his task.
Among the passengers on the Tecumseh were three who belonged to the superior class.
I hesitated for a moment, and at last, seeing that she was superior to any sorrow of bereavement; I told her all about the sad fate of her brother Louis, which your old friend Courtenay Despard had communicated to his uncle here.
He regarded Brandon as his saviour, with all the superstition which Hindus can feel, and looked up to this saviour as a superior being.
And he gazed with intense curiosity upon the calm face of the stranger, who, in his turn, looked upon him with the air of one who was surveying from a superior height some feeble creature far beneath him.
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