6129 examples of firm in sentences

Yet withal was he ever heedful of Beltane's many wants, who, as health came, grew more eager to be gone, but finding himself too weak, straightway waxed moody and rebellious, whereat smiling Roger waxed firm, so needs must frowning Beltane be bathed and bandaged and swallow his draughtbecause of She who had so commanded.

This prelate and the nobles, the greatest part of whom became his retainers, availed themselves, like all the German princes, of the confusion, divisions, and interreigns which frequently distracted the empire in the succeeding centuries, in order to establish a firm and unlimited authority of their own.

He was about the middle height, Napoleonic in form and bearing, with features of marble paleness, firm, and sharply defined.

She looked sixty, and had on a mutch, white as snow, with its black ribbon; her silvery, smooth hair setting off her dark-gray eyeseyes such as one sees only twice or thrice in a lifetime, full of suffering, full also of the overcoming of it; her eyebrows black and delicate, and her mouth firm, patient, and contented, which few mouths ever are.

In Devonshire, butter is made from this cream, and is usually very firm.

These coolers keep butter remarkably firm in hot weather, and are extremely convenient for those whose larder accommodation is limited.

In boiling the macaroni, let it be perfectly tender but firm, no part beginning to melt, and the form entirely preserved.

The oven door should not be opened after the bread is put in until the dough is set, or has become firm, as the cool air admitted will have an unfavourable effect on it.

As the dough will soften in the rising, it should be made quite firm at first, or it will be too lithe by the time it is ready for the oven.

If it be put on the cakes as soon as they are withdrawn from the oven, it will become firm and hard by the time the cakes are cold.

Pictures like these, dear Madam, to design, Asks no firm hand, and no unerring line; Some wandering touches, some reflected light, Some flying stroke alone can hit them right: For how should equal colours do the knack?

The money stands to the credit of Merton Wareand another at a bank with which his firm apparently had had no connections, a small bank in Wall Street.

I should like some day, if I could do so without suspicion, to let the creditors of the firm have it back again.

" "Nay, my dear sir," interrupted the clergyman, sitting firm in his saddle, "my business lies with you today.

He threw his toga over his left forearm and stood firm to make a fight for it, his white face rigid and his eyes ablaze.

She was of a firm, daring natureI did not fear to tell her all my plans.

That is our firm belief; what then?" "Simply this, that you are mistaken.

" Old Simon was very calm and firm.

They regarded him with something of that affection which a child has for a firm, kind parent.

A fine old firm.

A fine old firm.

The firm also obtained rather more than their share of ordinary bill posting, from doctors, drygoods dealers, and other people who find their profit in continually addressing the public from the summit of a dead wall, or the muddy level of the curbstones.

As it required neither strength nor practised dexterity of manipulation, the firm intrusted it to assistants.

Sometimes there was a prodigious rush of business, and then the firm were obliged to hire an extra force of boys.

The firm had been very successful.

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