Selingman, with characteristic forcefulness, pushed his way down the narrow corridor, driving before him passengers of less weight and pertinacity, until finally he descended on to the platform itself.

It amply made up in forcefulness anything it lacked in logic.

" He took up the candle with a stubborn effort to recapture his old forcefulness, but as they left the room the shadows thronged thickly after them in ominous pursuit; and it wasn't necessary to question Katherine.

By birth an Irishman, he had the innate practicality which commonly lies beneath the flash and colour of Irish forcefulness and rhetoric.

His pulpit style is conspicuous for its directness and forcefulness, and he is considered in a high sense the successor of Philip Brooks.

They were written with a violence which, in striving after forcefulness, became feeble.

Drawn to her at the first greeting one was soon convinced of the hidden forcefulness of her nature which could be likened to the resistless, unyielding under-current, rather than to the wave which visibly and noisily assails the shore.

Union supplements the defectiveness of each alone, and develops its full forcefulness.

Through a crevice in the blinds he was plain to be seen seated at his desk in profound thought, his bull-dog face in repose, his rude forcefulness very manifest.

The westerner asserted his usual views with considerable forcefulness, winding up with this observation: "The whole trouble is that we Americans need a good licking!"