" I had known for a long time that I had lost any real control of them; and that perhaps humiliated me a little.

Circumstances, for which they were not responsible, and over which they could exercise no control, have barred them out from their seeming true position in the world, and the genius which was intended for the daylight and the eagle's flight towards the sun, is left to skim in darkness along the ground, like the course of the mousing owl.

The race which gained control of North America must become the dominant race of the world, and its political ideas must prevail in the struggle for life.

Since Seaton was a merchant whose investments in Liverpool were numerous, it was perhaps not strange he left his widow shares that gave her some control of the Cartwright line.

General Wesley Merrittwho had lately received his promotion to the Colonelcy of the Fifth Cavalrynow came out and took control of the regiment.

The other self, bygone experiences, Instinct, or Guardian Angel,call it what you will,came forward and assumed control.

Similarly in a short time he secured control of the rest.

If we got clean control, I reckon we'd never stop.

For a moment he stood rigid, and when he spoke he had regained his self-control.

If this object is followed with fidelity and to its ultimate conclusion there is no necessity to fear any grave disturbances, but there is a dreadthat dread which is the fear of the child that has had its hands burned by the flame, that a selfish coterie of players might obtain control of the organization, set up a policy of unscrupulous defiance and destructive opposition and retard for a moment the higher development of the game.

Once and for all the writer would like to put the personal stamp of absolute denial on the repeated statements made by certain individuals in New York and Chicago that Andrew Freedman retained the control of the New York club after John T. Brush was reported to have purchased it.

Remaining long enough to assure the sufferer that the displeasure I had affected had wholly passed away, and to suggest the only measures of relief rather than of remedy that occurred to me, I endeavoured for a few moments to collect my thoughts and recover the control of my nerves in solitude.

Dirt in the country holds Supreme control.

The maid was sitting on the chair where we had left her; her hands clenched tightly together in her lap, as though it was only by some violent effort she could maintain her self-control.

The Pater Patriae,so called, because, having at last absorbed all the authority, he could afford to affect some of the benignity of a parent, and to treat his fellow-citizens, not as men, but as little children,the Father of his Country had acquired, by means of his great fortune and large financial connections, an immense control over the destinies of Florence and Italy.

The pen fell out of my fingers, the figures went out of my head as if all faculty had departed; and yet I was conscious for a time at least of keeping my self-control.

It is the same movement which has created agitations in Italy by means of its organs, and which attempt one thing only: to ruin the German industry and, having the control of the coal, to monopolize in Europe the iron industries and those which are derived from it.

The lift was started promptly, but it required all his self-control to remain seated in his chair during the slow progress upward of the great machine of which Monsieur Pelletan was so proud.

Laws of endocrine inheritance will emerge that will bring the control of heredity within measurable distance.

Had he possessed the control of the sea he might have escaped, but as the fleet commanded the Chesapeake this was impossible.

The school is not for the righteous but for the so-called sinner, who is only a child learning self-control by experience.

Deeply engaged and interested in domestic problems, they have left the control of their foreign relations in the hands of expert advisers.

Such results only serve to exemplify the constant desire among some of our citizens to enlarge the powers of the Government and extend its control to subjects with which it should not interfere.

The immediate fate of Russia, it was felt, depended upon the action of the council in its efforts to throw off the demoralizing socialistic control of the Russian army and workmen.

the wind exerting about as little control over it alive or dead as it does over a glacier boulder.