There is something exceedingly winning, to us, in that sturdy sense, that thirst for mathematical precision, that impatience of theory, that positive and self-reliantwe don't mind saying, somewhat dogmaticalair, that sternness of feature, thinness of lip, and coldness of eye, which belong to the best examples.

Kate was besieged in the grand house with tearful watchers, waiting in agonizing impatience for the fatal finality.

He had a ruthlessness in tossing aside what might be called "non-essentials," that was dictated not so much by an under-estimate of their due importance, as by an impatience with those who over-estimated them, confounding the vessel with its contained treasure.

Mary glanced once at Beaumaroy; his lips were apart in that half humorous, half compassionate smile; there was no hint of impatience in his bearing.

" Dr. Shuro, who had manifested his impatience at this long harangue, by frequent interruptions, and which Dridrano's show of deference could scarcely keep down, hastily replied: "You have manifestly taken the hint of your theory from me; and because I have advanced the doctrine that disease is an unit, you come forward now, and insist that remedy is an unit too.

Amid the whirl of rout, and ball, and picnic, race-meeting, polo-match, and what-not, Paul Howard Alexis stalked misunderstood, distrusted; an object of ridicule to some, of pity to others, of impatience to all.

"Oh, please," begged Billie, almost beside herself with impatience by this timeand Chet, in his quiet way, was just as bad.

Bless it all, we'll be too late for the tide if he don't come," he said to the captain, who stood with one foot on the taffrail, an expression of impatience on his weather-beaten face.

She loosed her arm with something like impatience from the child's close clasp.

Impatience under rebuke is as certain as the operation of natural law.

The accused was led away between two constables, bail being refused, and Brighton had perforce to moderate its impatience until the Wednesday.

exploded Pete Reeve, who had been inwardly chafing with impatience during the whole length of this speech.

II Many years later one of the great artists of Venice, wandering about at sunset with an elusive vision of some wonderful picture stirring impatience within his soul, found a maiden sitting under the vine-covered pergola of the Traghetto San Maurizio, where she was waiting for her brother-in-law, who would presently touch at this ferry on his homeward way to Murano.

He reconnoitred every available point, searched every corner of possible danger, and as the time passed he began to rage with impatience against Dick, whose delay was now periling the success of the enterprise.

He now grew bolder, and ventured to breathe out his impatience before her.

I tried to keep impatience out of my voice.

Impatience over little things introduces confusion into great schemes.

He had entered, looking partly foolish and partly cross, and had seated himself in a corner, showing no other impatience than that about dinner, in order to get away very soon.

There was nothing slow about them, but on the contrary they went a great pace, seemed to shoot into the very currents of air for scent, and yet there was no impatience about them such as might have been expected from the Foxhound cross.

For nearly five minutes I waited in impatience outside that closed door, until again the handle turned and my conductress beckoned me in silence within.

The right candle had given out, and O'Flynn, blowing with impatience like a walrus, had simultaneously extinguished the other.

" This monologue spurred Peter's impatience into an agony.

In I went, leaving my two companions consumed with impatience behind me.

When they are once induced to haunt the frames, they set all the fruit, and will hover with impatience round the lights in a morning till the glasses are opened.