"General, we're as far back to basics as we possibly can get," Harold Qunn - said, placatingly enough, but with considerable firmness as well.

He took mv elbow with considerable firmness.

He took my elbow with considerable firmness.

On one important occasion he seems to have shown considerable firmness of character.

'They're still there,'he said, and Bukowski replied with considerable firmness: 'And there they stay, permanently.'

Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness.

Her children she directed with considerable firmness, and all were tractable and growing in grace except Little Sam.

'Absolutely not,' said Granny with considerable firmness as a vision of Vitoller floated across her imagination.

It required considerable firmness of mind not to recoil before that sight.

"Your mother seems to be a woman of considerable firmness."