At this event, of which she was acutely conscious and at which she was intensely irritated, she drew herself up, with an attempt to return to her strictly professional manner.

On the other hand, these incomprehensible Chinese, although they make no defence, do not come forward to capitulate; and I am in mortal terror lest the French Admiral, who is in the way of looking at these matters in a purely professional light, should succeed in inducing our chiefs to engage again in offensive operations, which would lead to an unnecessary destruction of life and property.

Merely professional prejudice.

" Fixed with a firm and decidedly professional glance, Jeanne stopped sobbing and rose slowly to her feet.

M. Sainte-Beuve may be taken as a type of the avowedly professional critic.

A friend of mine used to tell a story of an honest builder's views of church differences, which was very amusing, and quaintly professional.

Bacon's works are divided into three broad classes:first, the Philosophical; secondly, the Professional; thirdly, the Literary and Occasional.

He rubbed his two hands together in a singularly professional manner which sat amiss on him.

A quite specifically professional education of the officers of the General Staff is essential under present conditions.

The amateur plays a fish upon a line and gives him a fair run for his life, but the professional fishermanto whom a salmon is a people's foodnets him coldly and expeditiously as he comes in from the sea.

His manner was briskly professional, the manner he usually reserved for the hysterical portion of his patients.