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He makes several sideway moves in the direction, ungraceful, but satisfactory to himself, and as he advances his admiration increases, his courage improves; he feels almost heroic.
Whatever their education, our women have always found that such independence as they could earn by hard work was less satisfactory than the dependence, coupled with assured comfort and ease, which they enjoy as the consorts, playthings, or slaves of the other sex; and they are only too glad to barter their legal equality for the certainty of protection, indolence, and permanent support.
The result is, it must be confessed, not entirely satisfactory in places.
Shortly after the subject was broached to us we learned that the United States Navy had devised a mine that it was expected would be satisfactory for the purpose of the barrage.
No other explanation of the worship of the Irmin-sul, and of the name of the Irmin street, is so satisfactory as that which connects them with the deified Arminius.
The interview was presumably satisfactory on both sides, for when they left the house Kitwater squeezed Codd's hand, saying as he did so "We'll have him yet, Coddy, my boy, mark my words, we'll have him yet.
I had come to the end of my tether; I could make nothing satisfactory of Induction, at this time.
Let [the judgment] be satisfactory unto me, let the hearing be satisfactory unto me, and let me have joy of heart at the weighing of words.
The elaborate fortifications along the existing frontier would have to be sacrificed, but the new racial frontier could soon be made equally satisfactory from a strategic point of view.
During the early part of the year 1917 the new pattern of mine, known as the "H" Type, evolved in 1916, had been tried, and although not perfectly satisfactory at the first trials, the success was sufficient to warrant the placing of orders for 100,000 mines and in making arrangements for the quickest possible manufacture.
It was satisfactory with the adults; but there were occasions when the smaller boys were materially benefited by applications of hickory shrubs.
Unfortunately, in January, 1917, we did not possess a mine that was satisfactory against submarines.
Future events, which I need not explain, may hereafter render it improper, and it may be nugatory unless accepted as satisfactory before the occurrence of those events.
The chairman, James Otis, made the reply more satisfactory by acknowledging the Governor's hospitality.
Having married meanwhile, he was desirous to avail himself of an opportunity to obtain a higher salary; and the druggist very willingly testified that his conduct had been entirely satisfactory during the time he had been with him.
This part of the inquiry was satisfactory enoughfor the police; not so the efforts they made to trace Jogesh and his accomplices.
The General Meeting at Ackworth was large, and I thought very satisfactory through all its different sittings.
Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?