His action recalled me to the infinitely deeper misery of my present situation, and conscious of the conclusions which might be drawn from such impulsive utterances, I pulled myself together and proceeded to finish my story with greater directness.

Dorothy led the way, for I was too blinded with joy to see where I was going, and with a directness which showed acquaintance with the great house, proceeded to a corner under the stair which had a bit of tapestry before it that quite shut us out from interruption.

As they were thanking the pastor, before leaving, Joe said with his usual directness, "Marcia was right, and here's where I begin to be a systematic Christian as far as my dealings with money are concerned.

" J.W. rather admired the tale of the truck; it was like Marty, right enough, to get his tithing talk illustrated with a load of produce; but there was more than a hint of a new Marty, with a new directness and confidence.

His judgment, expressed with unusual directness and severity and enforced by experience, has become with his followers a tradition not less imperative than the most binding of their laws.

" She was looking into his eyes with such intensity, with such directness, that he knew he was going to tell her everything.

In his life among the Indians and Mexicans he had absorbed their stoical ways and almost brutal directness, yet, sometimes he showed a sensitiveness that was utterly impossible for Carolyn June to understand.

She flushed faintly under the kindly directness of his gaze.

He uttered the question with a directness that sounded almost brutal, but Avery caught the note of anxiety behind it and understood.

Wyndham's answer came with brutal directness.

There had always been a certain directness about Logotheti's view of man's rights.

Then there are Varius and Pollio, in epic and tragedy respectively, of whose forceful directness he does approve.

While its art is as studied and conscious as that of the Ciris, it has the directness and integrity of Homeric narrative.

But curiously enough, this does not always work out with mathematical directness.

The business man, accustomed to deal with situations with unswerving directness, was not in the least afraid of Laura.

I asked him how it was that children, in their unpremeditated way, expressed themselves with so much directness and beauty.

But the most striking peculiarity of his diction is the utter absence of ornament; for Percival evidently held that the chief merits of composition are clearness and directness.

It is due to the character of our institutions that the diplomatic intercourse of this Government should be conducted with the utmost directness and simplicity, and that in all cases of importance the communications received or made by the Executive should assume the accustomed official form.

This was perilous business, but Sterry set about the work with a vigour, directness and intelligence that were felt over an extent of territory numbering hundreds of square miles, and made him a marked man by the rustlers, who are always quick to identify their friends and enemies.

From the first line to the last, from his premises to his conclusion, he travels with a swift, unerring directness which no logician ever excelled, an argument complete and full, without the affectation of learning, and without the stiffness which usually accompanies dates and details.

But the style has the directness and sincerity of all his writings.

And Miriam, equally smiling with confidence, led her friend, perplexed and entangled as he was by the whole dream-like and confusing puzzleled him to the armchair she had just vacated, and then seated herself at his feet upon a high footstool and stared into his eyes with a sweet and irresistible directness of gaze that at once increased both his sense of bewilderment and his confidence.

It is simply in the directness and certainty with which the teacher's knowledge may be applied to his purpose that the business of teaching has the advantage over every other pursuit.

Have you ever dared, dear, even in the depths of your heart, to set a date, a date relatively far off, but exact and absolute, with four figures, and to say, 'No matter how old I shall live to be, on that day I shall be deadwhile everything else will go on, and little by little my empty place will be destroyed or filled again?'" The directness of her question disturbed him.

"Then git!" The Lascar sprang to his feet with the agility of a panther, leaped through the hatch above him, and disappeared over the bow of the ship with an unhesitating directness that showed that every avenue of escape had been already contemplated by him.