By his understanding of the issues he was able to gain a reputation for .

It would never do, she thought, for her to gain a reputation for self-effacement and sweetness of disposition at her time of life.

The Kurds who come for winter pasture may be induced to stayalready they have been settling down in the western districts, and have gained a reputation for industry; the Bedawin, more fickle husbandmen, may settle southward along the Euphrates, and in time there will be a surplus of peasantry from Armenia and Syria.

They gained by this in zeal, both through indignation at being tempted and through their attempt to show that they would not willingly gain a reputation for baseness.

"In the days when I lived in a cave and gained a reputation as a wise and holy hermit, more people came to me to get relief from bodily ailments than to ask for spiritual counsel.

Not being able to explain to himself why he stayed, he held his tongue, and thus gained a reputation for grit which lightened other burdens.

To gain a reputation as discoverers men will invent or suppress facts.

Young though he was, he had widely gained a reputation for shrewdness and energy, for Piero had taken his eldest son early into his confidence, and had entrusted to him much important State business.

The king had been driven to despair by the disasters of the German army, and the increase of discontent of the German people, and desired to gain a reputation for virtue by the comfortable step of reforming his brother's household.

There is nothing gains a Reputation to a Preacher so much as his own Practice; I am therefore casting about what Act of Benignity is in the Power of a SPECTATOR.

He could, however, pay his way for the time, and would gain a reputation enough to ensure work in future.

The main object of education was the mastery of the art of oratory, and the chief practical use of that art was to enable a man to gain a reputation as an advocate in the criminal courts.

He was supposed to be the best artist of his day, and consequently gained a reputation as such, though his works are far beneath mediocrity.

The missionaries gained a reputation at court as "scientists", and in this they were of service both to China and to Europe.

Could I forfeit a good name, obtained at so much hazard?" "You would forfeit the good opinions of knaves, to gain a reputation among those whose commendations are an honour.

He shunned society; he lived a life of religious retirement, and gained a reputation for piety that even inspired the jealousy of his good friend the Archbishop.

For his keen insight and acute decisions, as well as for his witty utterances, Solomon gained a reputation which made him in the thought of later generations the father of all wisdom literature.

An accomplished scientific musician and performer, he gained a reputation in this direction beyond that of a mere amateur, and scarcely below that of the professionals of the day.

Meantime, the young squire was steadily gaining a reputation for solid qualities, for work and application.

In those successful marches, and in the victories won by his tireless and never vanquished army, he has gained a reputation that may well be enduring.

He came in the next (school) generation to Stanley and Vaughan, and gained a reputation, if possible, even greater than theirs.

At the school I took delight in athletic sports, and gained a reputation among the Charleston boys for being an expert especially in climbing.

He has been engaged for many years in his present work, and has gained a reputation, second to none, in the management of the laborious and manifold responsibilities of his position.

It was the duty of these men to communicate either in writing or verbally with the Consul, or with certain headquarters either in Brussels or Berlin, and it is only in accordance with human nature that spies of that class, in order to gain a reputation for acumen and consequent increase of pay, provided the kind of information that pleased the paymaster.

While trying to make up my mind whether to follow the original closely or to supply missing material, the time slipped by, and I gained a reputation for being negligent, although I worked harder than any one else.