masterfulness

He shifted more of his crushing weight onto her: masterfulness for its own sake.

With masterfulness she had been able to cope.

This was the second illustration of Roosevelt's masterfulness in cutting through a diplomatic knot.

Francis Wilmot rose, and spoke with a kind of masterfulness.

His arch masterfulness merely bored her.

Mor cried, her masterfulness controlling grief and anger without hiding them.

Mr. Caswall, too, took new courage from her coming, and all his masterfulness and power came back to him.

Tauno went on: "We soon saw that little but the masterfulness of Haakon had kept them where they are.

As for the five Asiatics, I feel that they are stouter behind me now that I have shown masterfulness.

Rage flamed in his keen eyes; but by the masterfulness of his self-control he kept his tones level as he spoke.

His masterfulness delighted me and terrified me, for my fancies wantonly roved until I found myself considering him as a lover, as a husband.

He looked exultant, but with a grim masterfulness which reminded me of the set look of his stern face as he had lain in the trance.

Johansen, who had caught the contagion of Wolf Larsen's masterfulness, burst out with a volley of abuse and curses.

There was open defiance in the look he cast on his rival, and masterfulness in the mere touch of the hand he laid on Theodora's arm.

It is the province of the male to initiate love and by his masterfulness to inspire first respect, then admiration in the breast of the female he seeks to attract.

The experience of passing through the shadow of the valley of death and of finding herself in one piece instead of several thousand had robbed her of all her wonted masterfulness.

It was the sight of your maimed strength and masterfulness that begot John Silver in TREASURE ISLAND.

He knew her financial affairs and advised her about them, while she lamented her feminine ignorance, and praised his masterfulness, and proved to know much more about bonds than he did.

To dream that he fails in his suit, signifies that he only needs more masterfulness and energy in his daring, as he has already the love and esteem of his sweetheart.

It was the sight of your maimed strength and masterfulness that begot Long John Silver...the idea of the maimed man, ruling and dreaded by the sound, was entirely taken from you".

It was very pleasant to find her taking things out of my hands with a certain masterfulness, and showing the distinctest determination to make a house in which I should be able to work in that great project of "doing something for the world."

Here, on a couch of heaped-up, stemless roses, such as might have been prepared for the repose of Titania, Lysia seated herself, while Theos stood gazing at her in fascinated wonderment and gradually increasing masterfulness of passion.

Keith Stringer argues that Stephen "was surely right" to seize the castles, and that the act was a "calculated display of royal masterfulness"; Jim Bradbury and Frank Barlow praise the military soundness of the tactic.

A little later during the meal I ventured to talk about what had interested me and aroused my admiration, namely, the masterfulness with which Mr. Pike and Mr. Mellaire had gripped hold of that woeful, worthless crew.

And I simply wondered if there was a woman in your life who was the recipient of all that masculine posses-siveness and masterfulness," Phoebe explained impatiently, so well acquainted with the characteristics of such heroes that she forgot they might be unknown to her host.