Their manner was frankly masterful though they spoke in guarded tones.

Each realised in that gravely masterful young minister a power and a force of attraction which could not long remain hidden in that little country town.

Parsket was extraordinarily pale and the blood was running down his face from the wound in his forehead; and then I noticed that he seemed to be looking at something in the passage with a peculiar, desperate, fixed, incredibly masterful gaze.

I looked at her, surprised that one whom I had always seen so intelligently masterful should be passive in the face of such anguish.