Everywhere, whether the lecturer be sketching the salient features of the sixteenth century or of the eighteenth, whether he be dealing with Italy or America, we feel the sureness of touch of one who is familiar with every detail.
Revolution under control; and the author shows, with an absolute sureness of judgment, that the turning-point was the rejection of the first project of Constitution, in September 1789.
In Chéret can be found all the principles of Impressionism: opposing lights, coloured shadows, complementary reflections, all employed with masterly sureness and delightful charm.
He has caught the most curious and truest actions with infallible sureness of sight.
The operation must be done at once--no guide marks or trial shots allowed; nothing but sureness of eye.
The steersman, with a sureness of hand rendered more effective by the sensitiveness of the rudder, maneuvered his craft as if she were a crack racer in a Royal Victoria match.
I watched avidly as he rented cabins, admiring again the ease and sureness with which he did something he had never done before.
Knowing that they were waiting impatiently didn't add anything to the grace and sureness of my movements.
The comfort of the traveller in a chair along this road depends entirely upon the sureness of foot of his two bearers--a false step, and chair and traveller would tumble down the cliff into the foaming river below.
All were heavily laden with copper and lead, were nozzled to keep them off the grass, and picked their way down the rocky path of steps with the agility and sureness of foot of mountain goats.
It is an admirable rock-climber, and is said even to surpass the mule in the sureness of its tread.
His calmness was like the sureness of money in the bank.
She entered the factory, the next day, with a light in her face, a sureness in her step that made all pause in wonder.
Certainly not; if we only reckoned the experiments and observations of official psychology, the hypothesis of telepathy, as we understand it, would be almost unfounded.
George Pelham also recognises objects which have belonged to him, principally those which have some remembered emotional association.
Why should they become lucid at the time when they ought to be still more confused, if the telepathic hypothesis is the correct one?
She was content to feel that sureness of power in her grasp--the certain knowledge that she, first of all people, would turn Time on itself and destroy it.
She let him feel the slight but firm resistance so nicely calculated to breach his own; watched the deepening flush of his cheeks with the clinical sureness that a thousand such experiences with men had given her.
There is noticeable throughout them a sincerity, a strong affection, and sureness of faith; a tender-heartedness and sympathy for the lot of the poor and suffering which is real and often touching.
He secured in due course his certificate of proficiency, astonishing the instructors by his skill and sureness in the handling of his machine.
She watched the sureness of his hand, the boldness of his eye.
She could run against any man, and aim an arrow with thesureness of any forester of Nottingham.
The earmark of your coast-born South Carolinian is the selfsame, absolute sureness of himself, his place, his people, in the essential scheme of things.
In Peter's case this essential sureness had developed into a courtesy so instinctive, a democracy so unaffectedly sincere, that it flavored his whole personality with a pleasing distinctiveness.
As a rule, it is by singing many different rôles that the lyric artist gains the skill and sureness that may ultimately render him famous in a few.
The new heaven and the new earth which they promise are no doubt to be very different from our own old earth and heaven; of that they are sure, and their sureness does not fail to make itself plain.
With whatever qualifications, it is certainly one of the great English lyrics, and its union of Renaissance sensuousness with grandeur of conception and sureness of expression foretell clearly enough at twenty the poet of 'Paradise Lost.
The quiet, hesitant movement helps the sense of this slow sureness in the working of the social law: "Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small.
In sureness of stroke and accuracy of proportion the drawing is unsurpassed; you may magnify any of the designs twelve times, and even the fingers will show no disproportion in whole or in part.
His economy of labor, his simplicity, justness, and sureness of stroke show the master's hand.
He could hear its voice, he could understand its silence, and he could interpret both for us in his prose with all that felicity and sureness of effect that belong to a poetical conception alone.
Each study in this volume presents some idea, illustrated by a fact told without artifice, but with an elective sureness of knowledge.
All were surprised that, young and inexperienced as I was, I should have so much cleverness of manner and such sureness of delivery.
The American artists began the rehearsal without a prompter, and with a sureness to be envied especially by our Italian actors, who usually must have every word suggested to them.
How he had understood at less than a word the secret uncertainty of herself which so troubled her; and with what astonishing sureness he had known what to say to reassure her, to make her see clear!
The value of this method lies in its feeling of absolute sureness in the reader's mind: once completed, the definition seems quite settled, quite tamped down, quite clinched.
These animals are, however, very useful for the transportation of heavy weights across the mountains, on account of the wonderful sureness of their footing.
It is especially valuable in rugged mountainous countries, where its sureness of foot enables it to go where Horses could not fail to meet with accidents.
In fact he was so outrageously ill-tempered about it that Belinda was in inner ecstasies at the sureness of her "inspiration.
Life is the meed only of strength and sureness of foot.
His words were more a statement than a question, and his implied sureness of her love for beauty hampered while it pleased her.
She ran with a swift sureness down the stairs and through the hall.
