Meanwhile every real statesman in either party had felt that the crisis required the master-hand of Carleton.

Haughty, cantankerous, and self-opinionated to the last degree, Germain, who had many perverse abilities fitting him for the meaner side of party politics, was appointed to the post for which he was least qualified just when Canada and the Thirteen Colonies most needed a master mind.

He was one of the master-spirits of the age.

"I say, Dick, don't try to capture Jeff Davis or blow up the Confederate Congress, or any other of the casual master strokes that may enter your wild head.

Shelley here appears to say that the minor poets have left works which survive, while some of the works of the very greatest poets have disappeared: as, for instance, his own lyrical models in Adonais, Bion and Moschus, are still known by their writings, while many of the master-pieces of Aeschylus and Sophocles are lost.

We have shown this vague fear in Nicholas's mind thus at length and in different workings, because thereby alone can be grasped the master-key to his dealings with the serf system.

While its builders, like all master builders, did "build better than they knew," yet it cannot be said that they under-estimated the importance of their labours.

Of their aid he made use to gratify his malevolence towards me, for this feeling had grown with his growth, and now seemed to be the master passion of his breast.

But no one can pass down that great avenue of elms to the glorious north porch, a master-work of the thirteenth century, without rejoicing that when all is said the church was saved to us.

This beautiful wall, made of carefully matched ashlars of pure white granite, especially selected for its fine grain, was the work of a master artist.

The master class was generally unfair to the blacks.

"One of our brothers is a carpenter and master mechanic.

Hence the March of Engineers is the march of men whom God has trained; in a special sense His master-workmen, craftsmen whom He loves.

The Colonel laid great stress on the enormous services of the delightful, accomplished master-mason over there on the beanbags, who sat looking more than ever like a monkey-wrench incarnate.

In like manner, two German tribes became the master races in Spain.

There's time to draw back, if ye want; but you've brought me the master word, and I'm bound to set you on the road.

One is a master mariner named Robert Evans, the other a merchant adventurer of his acquaintance whom I have not yet seen.

Renna's master lessons; piano accordion.

GOODWIN, ADOLPH O. What a master salesman should know.

Was there not the master general of the ordnance, who has ever gone farthest in his view of political reform, and declaimed most warmly against secret influence; and the lord chancellor, the most determined enemy of reform, and who has been supposed the principal vehicle of that influence?

Pure Anglo-Saxon was a forcible language, but it lacked the wealth of expression and the flexibility necessary to respond to the most delicate touches of the master-musicians who were to come.

"A Jew is the master-cook of the Emperor, his Imperial Highness always eats alone.

But my master hath taken many a fair pound Of your man Block; he was here to-day, sir, And emptied[500] two bottles of nippitate[501] sack.

Now, Heaven send that he hath slain the master thief, as we will presently slay the man!"

And they walked along the street which was shining with color, and saw as they passed how the master painter had come to his work, and was standing upon the balcony where the little Pilgrim had been, and bringing out of the wall, under his hand, faces which were full of life, and which seemed to spring forth as if they had been hidden there.