The unhappy Veenah, as firm in her principles as she was gentle in disposition, refuses to see him.

Now, where do Carroll and Crum come in?" "They're a firm of analytical chemists in Washington," said the captain.

It was as firm as a rock.

I lighted firm on the wood, and for a moment looked Muckle John in the face.

But now I understood that all the while he held firm to the determination to do whatsoever he might toward aiding Peter Sitz, and I began to feel real affection for the noble old man.

At the battle of Alma, amidst great disorder, he reformed the line and stood firm with the colours.

In reply to Mr. Walters the witness was sure that the paper he held in his hand had been manufactured by his firm for the Government.

Why should Dick be firmer than he?

"Thus bravely," retorted Henry, "the clergy provoke us to arms and dangers, since they themselves receive no blow in the battle, nor bear any burden which they may avoid!" Henry's council, however, held firm against the general tide of romantic enthusiasm.

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.

The French stood firm under an avalanche of shot and shell, and drove back wave after wave of a tremendous flood of Teutonic infantry.

And lastly it represents a belief, which has attained almost the sanctity of religion in the heart of Kolidom, that between themselves and the King's representative in Bombay there exists a bond of good-feeling and respect which dating as it does from 1675 has been welded firm by time and shall never be broken.

Mr. Naylor, though now withdrawn from an active share in its conduct, was still interested in the large shipping firm from which he had drawn his comfortable fortune.

Disappointment During this time of confusion, when the life of every white man in the clearing was literally trembling in the balance, General Herkimer passed the word from one to another that we were all to stand firm without show of fear, and at the same time making no move which might be construed as in enmity.

I asked him; he was very firm about it.

Of your strong and pliant branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more strong and firm beneath me!" Through the summit of the Cedar Went a sound, a cry of horror, Went a murmur of resistance; But it whispered, bending downward, "Take my boughs, O Hiawatha!"

The rod was bent into a semicircle, but the game was fast; with the butt firm between his knees and his thumb pressing the reel, the sportsman gave him a hundred and fifty feet of line, when his efforts began to relax, and as Smith began to reel him in, a moment of dead pull, a holding back like an obstinate mule occurred.

But there is in all strong natures the primitive combative instinct,the let-us-see-which-is-the-stronger, which delights in contests, which is undismayed by opposition, and which grows firmer through the warfare of the soul.

The late passage in II Samuel 7:16, which contains the promise to David: Thy house and kingdom shall always stand firm before me, Thy throne shall be established forever, expresses the prevailing belief in the days immediately preceding the exile.

Tell him that it's bad business for a big trading firm like his to be smuggling whiskey."

But she was firm too, and firm amidst very different circumstances.

Wipe the cover and edges of the pot, pour in the preparation, and close the lid; a quarter of an hour after, begin turning the freezing-pan from right to left, and when the mixture begins to be firm round the sides of the pot, stir it about with the slice or spattle, that the preparation may be equally congealed.

Ask about the firm among the trade; you will hear that it is firmly established on a sound financial basis.

In the principal streets the lads saw many names of English firms over offices, and the majority of the shops appeared to be kept by Frenchmen and Germans.

Polignac seems to have been firm after the beginning of the fight, and when Lafitte and others went to Marmont at the Tuileries, in the middle of the tumult, he declared concession impossible.