That is true all the way from winning some game at play to making a million in some great enterprise.
You have a lump of greyish clay and a saucer of water and certain small tools of wood (for which I cannot discover the slightest use in the world) given you, and Euphemia puts on a very winning bib.
It ensures that you always play a winning game in these happy days of your chess childhood, and taste the one sweet of chess-playing, the delight of having the upper hand of a better player.
Then, from the winning of the lowest, she turned to the winning of the highest.
He spent as much time in declining office as others did in winning it.
When he was young and winning stakes it seemed different.
She was to have made it very clear that by winning you would escape my alleged wrath--or rather, your father would.
Such pictures are delusion winning the imagination, not truth commanding the reason.
God commands man to rule his passions by reason, not slavishly obey them; to exercise a wisely proportioned self denial to day for the winning of a safer and nobler morrow.
We had reached our garden gate by this time, where, to my infinite relief, we were joined by Gerald, flushed and triumphant after winning his match.
Philip Waldron's face lit up with a rarely winning smile.
I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which was once mine.
I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his.
It was such a winningsmile that the children began to feel less uncomfortable.
The Twins didn't like that remark at all, nor did they relish the winning smile this time that accompanied it.
The bread-winning problem is the one that touches us first and most closely, and to wise thoughts only is it given to solve that problem.
The successful man is one whose thoughts about his bread-winning problem have been wise thoughts; paupers and tramps, with their hunger and rags, are men who have thought foolishly about how they could best earn a livelihood.
On the practical side, it is by the thinking alone that man solves his bread-winning problem.
Don't you see, young man, that by making her independent you're throwing away your best chance of winning her?
I now saw that never before had I really been in earnest about anything, that on winning her I had staked myself, and that myself was a wholly different person from what I had been imagining.
She was sweet-tempered, thrifty, and obedient, winning sympathy on all sides.
At their request he subscribed to various European clubs, winning the reputation of being "not half a bad sort of fellow".
The pleasant, winning expression of the bearded lips remained unchanged, and more than once she had seen his eyes sparkle with a far warmer light than now, while he was thanking the portly woman for her cordial welcome.
He married in Mantua, and there finished his famous book of "The Courtier," and succeeded in winning back the favor of his prince.
Winning and exuberant courtesy of the Italian race!
There is neither Greek perfection, nor winning Byzantine languor, nor insolent Renaissance opulence, which may compare with this loveliness of yours!
They were dear little girls and boys, and mountain babies, all with sunburnt faces and the gentle and the winning ways native to this race, which Nature loves better than us of the North.
He had not only fought, and fought on the winning side, but it had been in great measure owing to his efforts that the victory had been won.
Maître Bernard had evidently succeeded in winning Madame's confidence, but six years later he thought it worth while to run a serious risk of losing it.
He had learnt that compliments and attention count for much with women, and having studied Miss Conklin he was sure that persistent flattery would go a long way towards winning her.
I'd sooner see you winningevery one's respect by sticking to Ali Higg and schooling him to play safe.
As the wife of a polygamist she knew exactly what he meant about winning respect.
I am not on the winning side, but I am sure that I am on the right one," he had once said in public.
At all events," said Juanita, who seemed to have returned in her thoughts to the question ofwinning or losing.
Our winning of the toss meant practically the winning of the game, for the pitch was in such a state of wet that it was all in favour of the batsmen, and when stumps were pulled up for the day 69 runs were on the board for the loss of W.
On winning the toss, I decided to put our opponents in, and had Barnes been able to bowl in the mud only half as well as he had previously done on the fast wickets, our opponents would not have scored 100.
Very rarely indeed is a match concluded without the wicket-keeper having played an important part in either the winning or the losing of it.
Philipson had not a little to do with our winning the rubber.
On winning the toss in the first game, it took them a whole day to compile 252, which slow and over-careful play just cost them the match.
The Australians were very fortunate, under the circumstances, in winning the toss and batting on a perfect wicket on the Saturday.
New Zealand team in the first test match gave us a fair game; but we were almost always winning comfortably, most of our victories being gained in a single innings.
The first test was an extraordinary walk-over for us, and yet we never looked like winning another game, so far as the tests were concerned, afterwards, unless we except the last game at Sydney.
I keep flogging my will in the hope of winning thro' in the end.
Experience has also developed the great law here, as well as elsewhere, that the main work of winning races to Christianity must be performed by men of the same race.
Perhaps it was the thought of seeing the girl whom I loved, while yet I had no hope of winning her, carried off by some sprig of quality who would teach her to despise her homely friends, the master mariners young and old.
Most of them were young men, those who commonly spent their days in all those kinds of sport which allow of bets and the winning and losing of money.
In the former capacity I served his lordship for four years faithfully, bringing young gamesters to the table, luring them on, playing high for their example, and winning pretended sums for their encouragement.
There are more ways than one of winning a battle: you can win the man instead of the argument and Chesterton won many men.
Anyhow he doubted neither that the war was worth winning nor that it could be won by our soldiers and sailors.
And when something is set before mankind that is not only enormously valuable, but also quite new, the sudden vision, the chance of winning it, the chance of losing it, drive them mad.
How delicious is thewinning Of a kiss at love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying!
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