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The stamping of his foot in anger is directed to determination, perseverance, the rule of the brave spirit, the unconquerable will.
It was directed against those passing orbs, and seemed born of intuitive knowledge, rather than of any real cause or reason.
The conversion came direct from Godthe soul was acted upon by some special moving of the Holy Spirit.
"You have arms enough to give your crew about two magazine rifles apieceunless you filled all your berths forward!" Captain Selover looked me direct in the eye.
In that position my eyes were directed towards Mr. Coxwell in the ring.
The great ship had swung, and they were speeding direct for the phenomenon.
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Now among their own, Sherman's couriers run more peril than when skirting the edge of the battle, for the shells are directed at the line they are pursuing.
He saw the other's eyes directed on the miniature which he always wore, and which discovered itself to Avarabet as he stooped forward.
He was warming his hands, thin yellowish hands, at the fire now, and his gaze was directed into it.
She countered with a question as direct as his confession.
Hatred ennobles when it is directed with full force against the evil and bad.
I had calculated that while directing through the main bar a current of apergy sufficient to keep the Astronaut at a fixed elevation, I could easily spare for the eastward conductor sufficient force to create in the space of one hour the impulse required, but that in the course of that hour the gradually increasing apergic force would drive me 500 miles westward.
Samuel was directed of God to speak the truth, so far as he spoke at all, while he concealed from others that which others had no right to know.
This last amount of the stock will be withheld from Texas until the conditions upon which it is to be delivered shall be complied with by the creditors of that State, unless Congress shall otherwise direct by a modification of the law.
Our experiments proved that apergy acts in a straight line when once collected in and directed along a conductor, and does not radiate, like other forces, from a centre in all directions.
There is another which might also seem very naturalthat, I mean, by which bodies ever move rather in a direct than a crooked line, unless their motion be otherwise determined by the meeting of other bodies.
But if one is returning to Florence direct after leaving Fiesole it is well to walk down the precipitous paths to S. Domenico, and before again taking the tram visit the Badia overlooking the valley of the Mugnone.
And because of this telling of the compass, a great ease came upon my spirit; for, surely, was not this but a sure sign that I did go direct unto that hidden place of the world where the Lesser Refuge did abide; but yet was not come over-close, so that the pull of the Mighty Earth-Current of the Great Redoubt was something stronger than in the place where was the Little Pyramid.
We came to St. Sauveur direct without stopping at Luz, but as the latter is the larger townin fact the mainstay of the former, and also the nearer to Pierrefittewe have given it precedence.
Her eye, directed before her, was fixed, as if in settled gaze, on that eternity which she was approaching.
Coming to a farm, I inquired the way, and was directed over a number of muddy fields, which gradually brought me down into the valley.
The package, carefully made up and directed like an express parcel, was addressed to him in all the fullness of formality, but it had rained in the interval, and when in the morning the servant took it up, on opening the door, the wet paper broke and the remnants of the feast bestrewed the doorway.
For the Zigzag started off as a fair enough chalk path, but in a few paces narrowed down till it was but a whiter thread against the grey-white cliff-face, and afterwards turned sharply back, crossing a hundred feet direct above our heads.
Our course was then directed across Halifax Bay towards the Palm Islands, passing inside a small rocky islet marked i, on the chart, and another of larger size, k.