He might have kissed her lips, her look into his eyes was almost an invitation, but, having steeled himself to be scrupulously fair, he refrained and contented himself with kissing her hand.

And give to me my lance of war, Whose point is doubly steeled, And, by the blood of Christians, Was tempered in the field.

We recovered many square miles of the robbed territory of France40 villages one day, 100 villages another; while the condition in which the Germans had left both the recovered territory and its inhabitants has steeled once more the determination of the nations at war with Germany to put an end to "this particular form of ill-doing on the part of an uncivilised race.

But it left a world of nations free to work out their several destinies, self-determining, not subject any more to the threat of causeless war at the hands of a government steeled to barbarity.

The two sailors hung back, so terrorized at the mere thought of touching these victims of plague, I steeled myself to the job and handled them alone, dragging the inert bodies across the deck, and by the exercise of all my strength launching them over the low rail into the sea.

She steeled her heart with the dignity of republicanism; for her to drop one tear of sorrow would have been an eternal disgrace.

Pious parents until within recent dates have regarded the flogging of children as absolutely a religious obligation, and many a tender mother has steeled her heart and strengthened her arm to give the blows which she regarded as essential to the spiritual well-being of her child.

But vague terror had steeled his heart.

She steeled herself to endure its touch, against sickening repulsion she fought to achieve a smile that would carry a suggestion of at least forgetfulness.

If your heart be steeled to triumph Nor beats less at your defeat; Can you watch your whole world melt away And still smiling, fortune greet?

From the time of my adventure with the French musicians I steeled myself against excessive fears whilst remaining duly vigilant.

He feared, also, the responsibility of letting loose the English soldiery to wreak their vengeance on the mutineers, knowing too well that, with passions roused and hearts steeled to pity by the murders and outrages committed at Meerut, and the late wounding of their field-officer, our men would have given no quarter.

Truly these were fearful times, when Christian men and gallant soldiers, maddened by the foul murder of those nearest and dearest to them, steeled their hearts to pity and swore vengeance against the murderers.

"Thou betrayest unnecessary, and, for one that had needs be cool, indiscreet alarm, at the appearance of a little snow, friend Pierre," observed the Signer Grimaldi, as the mules drew near the guide, and speaking with a little of the irony of a soldier who had steeled his nerves by familiarity with danger.

She had been put in the position of the one hurt just when she had been steeled to bring the hurt.

We turn to the free States, where slavery has not directly steeled our hearts against human suffering, and where no supposed danger of insurrection affords a pretext for keeping the free blacks in ignorance and degradation; and we ask, what is the character of the prejudice against color here?

And during those two hours he steeled himself for the last time to the thing that was going to happen when the day came.

M. Floçon was a Frenchman, gallant and impressionable; yet he steeled his heart.

He had steeled himself to see rows of unspeakable sights, played upon by dripping water, but he found nothing of the sort.

She could have won him at "Wake Robin" if some silly Quixotism hadn't steeled her breast against himmore than tat, she knew that in spite of herself she would have won him if it hadn't been for Hermia.

She had steeled her nerve to the ordeal, and now she flushed with a fine new confidence, for the clerk merely said, "Certainly, madam"in the later shops of Newbern they briefly called you madamand with a kind of weary, professional politeness fell to the work of equipping her.

My soul still chokes at every tone Of selfish and self-clouded error; My breast still braves the world alone, Steeled as it ever was to terror.

The time of grace is past, And mercy, scorned and tried, Forsakes to utter wrath at last The soul so steeled by pride.

Of the latter in combination with wrought iron wheels and steeled axles, the local wagon works company are exporting large numbers.

I was steeled against all their gibes, but their caressing air, which I had not expected, overcame me so completely, that I trembled like a child when things began.