| 单词 | sureness |
| 例句 | It sounded like nonsense to me, until Dad said with the sureness of a dart, “A spotter.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I am filled with hope and a sureness that Therese will revive. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Even the younger Richardsons had it, this sureness in themselves. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Softly at first, but with growing sureness, the bell began to ring again. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Briefly he felt a tiny sliver of sureness for the first time. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Tour kills,” the boy insists, and the terror inside me grows at the sureness with which he speaks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There’s something about the two of them, the way they ignite at different temperatures, Alex’s frenetic energy and Henry’s aching sureness. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z With unthinking sureness I moved out on the limb and jumped into the river, every trace of my fear of this forgotten. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In which I was torn away from the sureness of the game. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She frightens me with her control and sureness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Little by little, drawn on by the boy’s sureness of understanding, the young Master began to do more than merely tell him of these mysteries. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Then, working with increasing sureness, he looked down and used both hands. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Minerva’s voice has the steely sureness it gets whenever she talks politics. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew, with terrible sureness, what he was doing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It must have been Nat from the beginning, she admitted now, and with that knowledge came a sureness that she had never known in all the last bewildering year. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “He looks so different,” he says after a long minute, gazing down at the baby Henry on the page and his easy, unfledged sureness. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I had no qualms at all; in fact I could feel now the gathering, glowing sense of sureness in the face of it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Garnder had nothing in all the world excepting a sureness about how right she was. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet, when you step back from the flurry of references and citations, there are a sustaining sureness and a charm in it that stay with you. Review: ‘Robert Seydel: The Eye in Matter’ Looks at an Artist’s Traces 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z And yet Baig moves through the world with more sureness than Sabi, even as performer and character share a belief that the world may not always be welcoming. Is Bilal Baig Ready for Fame? Sort Of. 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z The variety of images suggests a consuming curiosity; the lack of prints an almost unfathomable sureness in her own vision. Art In Review: VIVIAN MAIER 2012-01-19T23:48:15Z Again, Attenborough showed his sureness of touch: cast a brilliant unknown, so that the picture itself was the star. Richard Attenborough's death: a sad day for the British film industry 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Those kinds of incidents are now hilarious to recall, our sureness that television could only offer one thing a kind of fixed stupidity, in retrospect. Today's TV shows are good – but they aren't The Sopranos 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z As for dying, the worst way, he said with the sureness of a man who had given the question serious consideration, is to be tortured to death. Is He Mellower? Ask the Guy Missing a Hand 2010-03-03T00:02:00Z Through his own courage, coolness of character, and physical sureness, he pulls through. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But such sureness means we never worry too much about this Frankie as she heads toward what looks like a potentially suicidal nervous breakdown. Review: A Housekeeper Claims Center Stage in ‘Member of the Wedding’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Once or twice the actress contently patted her flat tummy, and then headed toward dinner with the sureness of a woman whose dress or Spanx will never be in her way. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Forward in Comfort at the Met Gala 2012-05-08T15:51:45Z The choreographer’s sureness with 1930s dance idioms and the fluency of his groupings bring one pleasure after another. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center - Review 2011-11-10T23:06:42Z Murphy sees in his sons a level of confidence, a sureness of themselves, that he did not feel at the same age. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The occasional untidiness aside, his sureness of pacing restored to the experience both the menace and magic that the staging so sorely lacked. Prom 61: Hansel and Gretel 2010-09-01T11:48:00Z Illustrating the film’s rags-to-ring narrative with panoramic mountain views and compact shots of young bodies punching their way up the food chain, Mr. Sun straddles ancient and modern, tranquillity and turmoil, with equal sureness. Movie Review: ‘China Heavyweight,’ a Documentary by Yung Chang 2012-07-05T22:55:22Z He had a storyteller’s grace with a lyric, a jazzman’s sureness with a melody, and in his finest performances he delivered them with a party giver’s welcome, a palpable and infectious affability. Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Still, the ripeness and sureness of the melodrama are what makes “Empire” fun. ‘Empire’ Returns for Its Second Season, Still Juicy With Melodrama 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z I say that with the humbleness of the fans being so wonderful, but with the integrity and sureness of my abilities as a musician.” Music: Even Offstage, Lady Gaga?s Ready for the Stage 2011-05-18T13:02:40Z As the writer hauls himself from into public accountability, he loses some of his sureness of touch. Inaugural poem for Obama is a valiant flop 2013-01-22T16:29:35Z It was a delicious moment – and another perfect expression of the sureness of tone that the ceremony seemed to set. Kenneth Branagh recalls the opening ceremony of London 2012 2012-12-23T00:06:01Z But in his primed-for-television sureness, he misses an opportunity to engage the many Americans who are searching for new ideas about God. Reza Aslan’s ‘God: A Human History’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z “His sureness in catching and his decision-making with his passing and threatening from three, it just pulls some people out so there might be some more driving opportunities,” Bennett said. No. 7 Virginia has gone small but is still winning big in the ACC 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Conductor James Gaffigan played a large part in this regenerative approach, leading the National Symphony Orchestra through Bernstein’s confounding chordal corridors with sureness and vigor, and making the composer’s sometimes dowdy patterns feel effortlessly chic. Review | A half-century later, Bernstein’s ‘Mass’ shines anew at Kennedy Center 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Uncharted’s greatest sin, however, is the sureness with which it presents you with the potential for future installments — installments this movie’s ending neither earns nor warrants. Uncharted’s road to gold is plagued by its bros 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The trait I envied in my friend was her sureness. An American road trip through troubled times 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “There was a goodness, a stillness, a sureness,” Ifill said of Aaron. Perspective | Hank Aaron fought racism the way he played: Quietly but with power 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z “I plan to write a book about five friends that travel the world,” he said with the sureness of a man with tickets already in hand. Alabama single mom struggles with kids’ remote learning 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z The sureness of its success aside, in that way it fails the test of old pop as well as the test of new. Review: Blackpink's debut album gleams and preens. So why isn't it very much fun? 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Who wouldn’t want a little more sureness right now? The N.B.A. May Return Too Soon 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The other direction is bridging, where we turn outward to connect with other groups and strive for ways to build commonality and the sureness of being at home here. How, as a Black man on the sidelines, I found grace at an Aryan Nations rally 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Combined with the steadiness and sureness of her long game, opponents never gained encouragement from any negative body language. Team Europe has just the right person to help end its Solheim Cup losing skid - Golf Digest 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z At 4-2, the sureness of shot she showed in her two previous matches, both widely lauded as excellent, returned – but not for long enough. Johanna Konta errors hand French Open semi-final to Vondroušová 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Something had to give and Pep Guardiola’s players certainly toyed with the emotions of their supporters during those passages of play when they lacked their usual sureness of touch. Sergio Agüero steers Manchester City towards title with Burnley victory 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z In the end, though, people who share the road with driverless vehicles must place their faith in the reliability of sensors, the sureness of autonomous brakes and logical machine decision-making. Editorials from around New England 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z “We work really hard in practice doing sureness drills. You just keep working at it. Again, there’s a level of soundness without being passive, and you’ve still got to make plays when people pressure you.” For Virginia basketball, turnover issues and Ty Jerome injury shadow Duke showdown 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Such is his confidence, his sureness in himself, the risk concept seemed almost alien to him. Didier Deschamps puts faith in Mbappé and France’s new generation 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln was born poor yet proceeded to rise to the top with the kind of sureness and dignity that does honor to a democratic country. Opinion | What today’s leaders could learn from those we honor on Presidents’ Day 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z That night something changed in me - I felt a calmness grow, a sureness. David Bowie: Ten things we've learned since his death - BBC News 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z As unlikely as it is enchanting, "The Eagle Huntress" tells its documentary story with such sureness that falling under its sway is all but inevitable. The soaring documentary 'The Eagle Huntress' tells a heartwarming, intimate story of gender rebellion 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Carlos, in his element, showed Wilber a few steps; they danced in not-quite-synchrony, side by side, Carlos with sureness, Wilber staring down at his feet and concentrating. The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The portrait of the Islamic regime is quite fond; he likes the fundamentalists’ suavity and sureness. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z He’s an older man, and slight of build, but there’s sureness in his frame as he walks from room to room in the beat-up old building. Williston man continues to provide for homeless 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z He might not be the lean figure of old, packing a few extra pounds these days, but his sureness of touch and understanding of space is still there. Roma hold Manchester City after Francesco Totti becomes oldest scorer 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z That attention to detail, sureness of touch and evocation of the bonds of family is maintained throughout Gone Home. 'Gone Home' Review - A Teenaged Girl At The Heart Of A Grown-Up Game 2013-08-15T18:00:00Z He moved with a sureness of step that suggested his canine ancestors might have been let off the ark by Noah at the first D’Agostino’s they saw. About New York: Dog, Midnight, Is West Village Hero After Storm 2012-11-16T02:31:16Z Smith began, mimicking his grandmother’s bouncing intonation, sureness in his voice. Geno Smith and the Art of Football at West Virginia 2012-09-28T20:28:10Z The very sureness that the general average of the seasons is to be the same enables us to guess pretty accurately for individual purposes as to the kind of season coming next. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z His experiences in war gave to him a sureness and truth in detail, which, when added to his technique, produced results which challenged the admiration of all who saw his work. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z This will tend toward sureness and give eyes to your fingers, so to speak. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The Socialist orator says: "Socialism is coming upon us with the speed of the whirlwind and the sureness of the dawn." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The book is crowded with types etched in with masterly fidelity of vision and sureness of touch, with feminine subtlety as well as virile audacity. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Yet he arrives in other than logical ways at a sureness for himself which is never Mr. Hughes's. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z No longer he moved uncertainly, but with as much sureness as if he were traversing the forest behind The Place—the forest that had been his roaming-ground since puppyhood. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Something of a feat it is; requiring considerable sureness of foot and skill in balancing oneself. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Each moment it seemed to flow with even swifter current, and to be rising with terrible sureness nearer and nearer the mouth of the cave. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z "Love is the greatest thing in the world," she had said, very slowly, very quietly, but the words rang with the sureness of a great certainty. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z All we know with certainty of the real Hoover is that when he has society at the starvation line and can say "so many calories, so much energy," he works with extraordinary sureness. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Mr. Lawrence can pass with equal sureness from colliery to cathedral and find the right word for every thing and person met on the way, the right word, though often a perplexed and perplexing word. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z I staked all on that sureness, though logically—— But I would not let my mind wander to any other deduction than the one to which, for better or worse, I pinned my faith. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z At such times his music possesses an uncommon sureness, swiftness, and incisiveness; especially in passages of tragic foreboding, of mounting excitement, it is gripping and intense in a quite irresistible degree. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z She had a certain way of carrying her head, a certain sureness in adjusting her movements to her speech, a certain judgment in projecting her voice that went straight to the spot. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Marie grew up in her father’s laboratory, imbibing the spirit of scientific research, and acquiring that sureness of eye and skill of hand which is so indispensable to the worker in experimental science. Marie Sklodowska Curie 2011-10-28T13:45:02.217Z He marveled also at the unfailing sureness of her sense of direction. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z He hardly realized the sureness of the unremitting character of his progress. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z In Prospice we feel the eager sureness with which he looked forward to rejoining her whose bodily presence had left him a few months before. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z She struck more chords, her fingers finding the keys with the second-nature sureness, learned in her months of dreary practice. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z The mynah, with the regularity and sureness of long training, caught each one unfailingly—finally coming to rest on the boy's hand. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z That is the way I reason it out, because when you expect a man to crack and he doesn't, you lose a little of your sureness yourself. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z But sometimes in their intensity—in their sureness of exclusive salvation—they fall to bickering. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z There was a quiet unhesitating sureness and a definiteness of purpose about old Rocky’s movements which immediately inspired confidence. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z The phenomenon was typical of the hard-headed northern worker, and the sureness of the steady control of the great enterprise. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Note in all three the use of action as compared with description or analysis; the connotative value of the phrasings; the succint sureness. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Twelve hands It is his sureness of himself that keeps him cool, being neither anxious nor fearful of failure. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z Or bankers have come up from Paraguay, and one meditates from hour to hour on the sureness of the loan. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z The master of the mills read the meaning of what he beheld with the sureness of a man bred to the calling of these men. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z It requires in the doctor a degree of skill, of practical experience, vigilance, decision, and sureness of hand which no man can be expected to possess at the first outbreak of the epizootia. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z At the same time, with wondrous sureness and perspicacity, from the rich stores of his own intimate experience, he points out the safe and sure paths which lead the soul to loving union with God. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z She had fancy, as we know, and she could put her fancy on paper with a quickness and sureness of stroke which had led M. Vailliant to think that she might do dry points. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z The place was a loved place; so much Kent felt with sureness of instinct. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Perhaps the call disconcerted him; robbed the old servant's eye of its certitude; his arm of its sureness, for the blow aimed at his Excellency the latter was enabled to evade. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z The following dialogue has equal virulence and somewhat more sureness of aim. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z It is not just goals that are missing – it is the dangerous sharpness of old, the sureness of touch where it matters in the penalty area. Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea: Five things we learned 2011-04-12T21:17:06Z He is reconciled to having you as a son-in-law, partly by the quickness and sureness with which you see and observe! The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z They impressed upon my plastic mind their confidant cheerfulness, and their sureness that life was a very good thing. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Knowing that they were waiting impatiently didn't add anything to the grace and sureness of my movements. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z “And so you shall, and do,” he cried; and instantly the tender spell upon her was broken, for in his tone and manner was the old arrogance and sureness that she so much resented. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z Burl watched it drop down with the speed and sureness of an arrow, pull aside a heavy, flat stone, and descend into the ground. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z And thus fame, which slowly but with irresistible sureness has grown to his stature, has not disturbed him. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z She watched the sureness of his hand, the boldness of his eye. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z I watched avidly as he rented cabins, admiring again the ease and sureness with which he did something he had never done before. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z At his age he lacked the steady head and sureness of foot that were essential for such feats of agility. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z She had gone on delivering thrust after thrust with a sureness of aim and decision of manner well calculated to disconcert him, and, for a moment, he actually was unable to answer her. Under a Charm, Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.173Z They seem to share a sureness they are right. On Education: In Panel?s Votes to Close Low-Performing Schools, Rage and Foregone Decisions 2011-02-05T04:01:23Z She could run against any man, and aim an arrow with the sureness of any forester of Nottingham. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Every day there came to the armory loose-jointed, easy-swinging trappers and woodsmen, simple-spoken young men, who, in offering their keenness of vision and sureness of marksmanship, were volunteering their all. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Life is the meed only of strength and sureness of foot. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z And who taught you to read this character with such unerring sureness? Under a Charm, Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.173Z He was one of those cocksure men who confine their sureness mostly to their own mental processes. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z "By St. Denis!" he muttered, playing his sword from side to side with his inimitable sureness. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Luka Modric looked every inch the United player here, from the sureness of his touch to the way that he sought to impose his class upon proceedings. Manchester United need a player like Spurs' Luka Modric 2011-01-16T23:01:00Z "Your sureness was the result of trust in me, as a decent man in spite of the fact that you think I'm not a gentleman?" Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Here is a tale indeed—big and forceful, palpitating with interest, and written with the sureness of touch and the breadth of a man who is master of his art. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z When my touch had mastered a certain sureness and deftness I planned a nude of Boy with the idea of later executing it in marble. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z All depended now upon the swiftness and sureness of foot of our ponies. The White Man's Foot 2010-12-28T03:00:15.167Z We cannot claim for the Church absolute sureness of judgment as to what falls on one side of the line and what on the other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z “Her whole face was just radiant with reality and sureness and unself-consciousness,” he said. | Long Island: A Tale That Rings With a Familiar Sound 2010-12-05T04:20:00Z But he could not oblige here and, in the process, there were times when the man who scored 34 times for United last season seemed to have temporarily misplaced his sureness of touch. Hern?ndez ignites but Rooney put out 2010-08-04T23:02:00Z Capello, who has lost his sureness of touch, looks to have met his match: a culture he seems to find bewildering. World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello is now at odds with his England players 2010-06-20T09:00:00Z Despite winning a stonking mandate in April, the government lacks sureness of touch. Hungary's wobbles: Careless talk 2010-06-10T10:39:00Z Beneath the sureness and swank of youth, he had a touching vulnerability and sweetness. Our trashy Las Vegas wedding 2010-03-27T00:10:00Z Yet there was a sureness about her which argued for her creed of wholesome, simple things and old half-forgotten faiths which one would like to keep alive—if one could. The Law of Hemlock Mountain Separated chords or flowing melody, she played with a sympathy and sureness which showed the touch of an artist. The Trail of Conflict But the real secret of his success was not luck but his sureness of himself. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men He was not conducting himself as a business man in this case, but he knew by sureness of instinct that the strange amateur would take no mean advantage of his confessed enthusiasm. Where the Path Breaks I must try and try to make that feeling eloquent—to make these boys feel, in turn, the sureness and helpfulness of my understanding. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew Such brevity as Mr. Stevenson's comes from sureness of knowledge, not want of care, and is the first sign of mastery. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Even the miller perforce yielded place to Léontine’s young eyes and sureness of foot. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Gradually Trakor's fears grew less as he observed the unfailing sureness with which Tharn trod this high-flung pathway, and in its place came an abounded admiration of his agility and strength. The Return of Tharn She liked to be quite sure, to arrive at sureness by thinking things thoroughly out. The Furnace These were sung very softly, very evenly, until I could employ every tone in my voice with sureness and certainty. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists But Cleek had been in tighter corners and more difficult places than this in the course of an adventurous lifetime, and the poise and sureness of the man were amazing. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel In fact he was so outrageously ill-tempered about it that Belinda was in inner ecstasies at the sureness of her "inspiration." Shadows of Flames A Novel But morning restored her serenity, and she reposed placidly again on the unquestioned sureness of her going. Ewing\\'s Lady It was something which seemed to grow, slowly, vaguely, yet with an irresistible sureness. The Furnace Martin’s sureness of hand alone saved him from the necessity of cotton-wool. Lady Cassandra Now the translator proceeds in Egyptian with some of the sureness with which he would deal with Latin or Greek. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The accuracy and delicacy of his later plastic works show how well he apprehended these ideas, and how far he acquired sureness of expression. Dürer Artist-Biographies They had not supposed that the quiet, almost timid, boy, who betrayed his unsophistication by countless little mannerisms, could have attained the sureness of line his strokes revealed. Ewing\\'s Lady From one slender branch to another the majestic figure raced along with an easy sureness remarkable to behold. Warrior of the Dawn They moved with the sureness of men who know where they are going. Sinister Paradise The only other possibility is that moisture must be seeping away from either the man or his ship despite his sureness that they were both airtight and our own investigations which confirmed it.” The Hitch Hikers "Already," says a deep Thinker, with more meaning than will disclose itself at once, "my opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and sureness, the moment a second mind has adopted it." A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time It swam in her vision at first, but presently something of its grounded sureness, something of the peace that slept along its upper reaches, fell upon her own soul and her serenity was restored. Ewing\\'s Lady Still, there was an athletic grace about him, a sureness of step and facial expression, that made it obvious that he was physically fit. Confidence Game He also had a wooden leg and he stalked across the surface of the sea with all the sureness he might have had with concrete under him. Sinister Paradise Little by little, but with a sureness and steadiness there could be no mistaking or denying, Groplau was working out the plan he had long since formed in his mind. Long Live the King His rapidity and sureness of manipulation were nearly that of the prestidigitator, and were the boast and admiration of his pupils. The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University There was an alertness, a sureness, a self-confidence shining from eyes which was even more marked. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign And yet He, in the sureness of His perpetual presence, was beside you all the while, and heard every note as you sang the songs which were, as your inmost heart knew, not for Him. Kept for the Master's Use An obscure virginal instinct rather resented the excessive sureness of this impetuous suitor. Doubloons—and the Girl This drama of conscience is set forth with admirable sureness of analysis, and the author has been able to represent with impressive intensity the mysterious fatality which demands the death of the guilty one. Contemporary Russian Novelists She alone seemed to have that inheritance of swiftness of mind, of sureness of training. The Life of Nancy But aside from that, there had been something in her personality, an indefinable calm and sureness, a grip upon herself, that he had felt the very first moment. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance "Twenty-two, twenty-one, twenty, nineteen—" He flexed his fingers restlessly, and felt in his mind the speed and sureness of his draw and firing. The Man Who Staked the Stars The very greatness and sureness of this happiness awed her into doubt. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 Such a serious limitation in a critic as deficiency of reading in his case only raises our astonishment at the sureness of instinct which enabled him to pronounce unerringly on the scantest information. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature To show the directness and sureness of brush-stroke, and candor and simplicity of means, always present in Dutch work, though never so free as with Hals. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors Now it depended on the sureness of the eye and the speed of the throw; whoever touched the other first with his ball would secure the victory for himself and his patrol. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts "Ten, nine—" He concentrated on the counting, "—six, five, four—" sureness growing like a coiled spring in every muscle, "—three—" He crouched slightly. The Man Who Staked the Stars From time to time she directed the chauffeur when he was in doubt, the old turnings of the streets coming back to her with astonishing sureness. Clark's Field But he took it as it came; and his guide, and his crude weapon, and his steady eye and sureness of foot on rocky crags all saw him through. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Martin was instantly sure of the tapper's identity, with a sureness born of intuition and memory. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story He could step into the nearest, and in a moment he was climbing from one to the other with all the sureness of a born waterman, searching for what he wanted. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Yet withal, even though unhurried, he usually falls upon the victim with surprising sureness of aim, encompassing it in his multiform net. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science Within a few seconds they had resumed their work, though, it seemed to him, with less sureness in the supple movement of the fingers. The Side Of The Angels A Novel It is not in the power of the elect to make their election surer in itself than it really is, for this is a sureness which is not capable of receiving any addition. The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted You are—ah—of a sureness as to direction? Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The carelessness and rapidity of Tintoretto, which, in his case, proceeded from the lightning speed of his imagination and the unerring sureness of his brush, became a mechanical trick in the hands of superficial students. The Venetian School of Painting And they worked as they growled, worked with swift sureness and skill, and the final instruments took their place in the ship that she might roll from the hangar complete under that day's sun. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 To his gigantic size and strength he united the sureness of a cat in climbing up or down a mountain arête. The Mountain Divide She was transcribing from her notebook to the typewriter, and her fingers moved with marvelous dexterity and sureness. The Wall Street Girl The name of this black Forister was upon me violently and yet with perfect sureness. The O'Ruddy A Romance The agility, the wonderful sureness and rapidity of movement on Marbolt’s part were staggering. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana They lifted it easily with their prehensile flipper-arms, and with maneuvering of delicate sureness guided it through the gash in the Peary's bow. Under Arctic Ice In pithiness of style, sureness of touch and dispassionate judgment, he contrasted Acton as an historical writer with Macaulay, to the latter's disadvantage. War Letters of a Public-School Boy There was a sureness about every other movement, as when she slipped in a new sheet of paper or addressed an envelope or 35 raised her head. The Wall Street Girl I had no difficulty in locating Hart Jones, for he was striding from lathe to workbench to boring mill, issuing his orders with the sureness and decision of a born leader of men. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 Assisted by Bob, who improvised all manner of moving targets, he made hit after hit with a sureness provoking cries of admiration. Sunlight Patch She had lost some of her leader's sureness, and was now tentative, a little in reserve from her friend. The Rainbow A few of the regulars were out, and it was easy even for a stranger to distinguish them by the deftness and quick sureness of their actions. Bert Wilson on the Gridiron With the deliberate sureness of Fate the pirate took aim at his adversary, who whimpered and grovelled behind the table. The Black Buccaneer They are merry, wise creatures, graceful and agile in their movements, and spring from cliff to cliff and across chasms with extraordinary lightness and sureness of foot. Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly His exquisite poise, his sureness of being absolutely correct, was one of his charms. The Beloved Woman He was a great rider, so there was about him some of a horseman's sureness and habitual definiteness of decision, also some of the horseman's animal darkness. The Rainbow Nevers reeled before the suddenness and sureness of the stroke, and fell on his knees to the ground with a great cry that startled Lagardere and stayed him in his triumph. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama Matthew Arnold said: “No man can trust himself to speak of his own time and his own contemporaries with the same sureness of judgment and the same proportion as of times and men gone by.” McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Only by the constant exercise of such moderation can that sureness of hand and eye be guaranteed which are absolutely necessary to the playing of good golf. The Complete Golfer I had perfect reliance on the sureness of my sight; and, with such a mark as the huge body of the squatter, it was impossible I could miss. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness His protective manner, and his sureness, and his intimacy, puzzled her. The Rainbow The light enabled all three to do their work with rapidity and sureness. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains "And how do you know that with such sureness?" she cried. The Rhodesian And the companionship, the instant sympathy, the sureness of an echo in her heart, no matter how low and soft his whisper! Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman O meek anticipant of that sure pain Whose sureness gray-hair'd scholars hardly learn! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Others may have attempted higher things, but none did what he attempted with such perfect ease and sureness. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 He secured in due course his certificate of proficiency, astonishing the instructors by his skill and sureness in the handling of his machine. Learning to Fly A Practical Manual for Beginners He regards himself as an artist, and he shows the same sureness of hand and the same sense of form and color as the designer in colors or the painter of portraits or landscapes. The Critic in the Orient But it was all over now; his enthusiasm and sureness had fled. Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman The distinction here is merely one of matter of fact, a distinction not always to be made with sureness, since it is one of degree rather than altogether one of kind. The Writing of the Short Story The clothes and accessories are more swiftly and summarily done, the silver lace and the high lights being touched in with amazing sureness and cleverness. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 To enjoy religion the mind must be settled about the main facts of the case; there must be a feeling of sureness as to one's acceptance with God and His approval of our spiritual condition. Standards of Life and Service Among all the notable documents which he furnished to his official chief, none affords more convincing evidence of cool judgment, mastery of South African conditions, and sureness of statecraft than this. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 Fate had directed her life into a peculiar channel, and she followed its course with a sureness of purpose that brought her admiration. Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road The excellence of the work lay in simplicity and directness of treatment, in a sureness of line drawing, in a power of striking the right note, whether of praise or sorrow, of glory or grief. Studies in Literature and History It was an historical subject, treated with a spirit and a sureness of touch almost worthy of Titian himself. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. I will not ask whether you have any religion or not, because most of you are professors of religion, but I do ask, Has your religion got this element of 'sureness' in it? Standards of Life and Service But beneath the light words and unstudied diction there is the weight and sureness of the 'inevitable' thought. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 Yet there was something lacking—a sureness of refinement, a last considerateness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Most entomologists have observed with what ingenuity and sureness dragon-flies distinguish, follow, and catch the smallest insects on the wing. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Her sureness chilled his impatient hurry; and the oft-told tragedies of prairie snowstorms recurred to him. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest It brings a man to a place of sureness as to his religious relationships. Standards of Life and Service Now he must trust to the strength of his arm, to the sureness of his aim. The Shadow Witch Through Andr�, Simon, Mauprat—the last a tale of love subduing and purifying the savage instincts in man—her art advanced in sureness and in strength. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. But for thy quickness and sureness of eye and hand I should have been overthrown, and the Basutos might have been obliged to choose another king. Through Veld and Forest An African Story The machines left the ground so easily, and mounted and descended with such sureness of movement, that I was impatient to begin my training. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France But inwardly she was furious with herself for feeling a just perceptible response to his virile personality and his absolute sureness. The Privet Hedge Immovable, tense, he steered with the sureness of knowledge and grim determination until the boat ceased to leap and ahead lay a little stretch of peace. The Man from the Bitter Roots It struck a new and wholly original note, with a sureness bespeaking a master's touch. American Men of Mind Not only was their ease of motion an absolute necessity, but sureness of foot was also indispensable; this quality they also possessed. Customs and Fashions in Old New England I wondered what I would do in such a strait, when one must think with the quickness and sureness of instinct. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France I had never, in the interval, found any one with just his quickness of perception and just his sureness of response. The Long Run 1916 She spoke with an artless sureness of comprehension—a certainty—they were close in spirit at that moment, and she was not 112frightened, not even conscious of it. The Squirrel-Cage He lacked the strength of imagination, the sureness of insight and the delicacy of fancy necessary to great poetry. American Men of Mind And each had a meaning which he read with a sureness that was almost instinctive. The Heart of Unaga The strange words fell like the notes of the meadow lark in spring, easy, liquid, yet with the sureness of knowledge. The Lady Doc Meyverik smiled and his sureness swelled out until it almost jabbed me in the stomach. Measure for a Loner Lydia hurried across the dark, silent house with swift sureness. The Squirrel-Cage It was not that the youth was clumsy: it was rather the blind, instinctive sureness of movement of an unhampered young animal that irritated the officer to such a degree. The Prussian Officer Other translators, expressing themselves with less sureness and adequacy, leave the impression that they have adopted similar standards. Early Theories of Translation Towns were sacked and men were slain; here was an explosion, there an outbreak of lawlessness; but for the most part the change was wrought with deadly slowness and a sureness which nothing could check. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain I was so certain it would be sureness for once. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure "We have got to beat them in the end," said the English soldier with the quiet sureness that has so often helped England to victory. Shelled by an Unseen Foe IN listening to a Patti, a Kubelik, a Paderewski, the reflective hearer is struck by the absolute sureness with which such artists arouse certain sensations in their auditors. Style in Singing Remember that he who goes softly goes far, and I want sureness more than speed.” Marcus: the Young Centurion You have here, nevertheless, a moment of very great beauty in the cleanness of this man's surprising agility and sureness. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Most of us feel as if a sort of cloud weighed upon us, keeping us below our highest notch of clearness in discernment, sureness in reasoning, or firmness in deciding. Memories and Studies He labored with desperate haste, with strong certainty and sureness of touch, but he seemed to feel nothing of human anguish or human sympathy. Shelled by an Unseen Foe As a rule, it is by singing many different rôles that the lyric artist gains the skill and sureness that may ultimately render him famous in a few. Style in Singing But that sort of sureness is not what science seeks. The Story of the Mind During the past year the latter had become greatly interested in automobiles, and drove her own high-powered car with the sureness of an expert. Grace Harlowe's Problem Is it not possible," she suggested, with that quiet sureness of judgment which, I think, is rarely given to women, "that Miste is alone responsible and the criminal? Dross It must have been the sureness in Skag's voice, that made some choking tightness way back in the boy's soul let go; whole vistas of possibilities opened up. Son of Power Jean in his eagerness went ahead and the father watched his boy with pride as he followed the indistinct tracks with swiftness and sureness. Bob Hunt in Canada Hanlon flushed, but there was a sureness in his voice as he answered, that only the bitter experiences through which he had so recently passed, and which had matured him so greatly, could have brought. Man of Many Minds No; nor the sureness of the anchorage that it offered. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West The ice could not betray the sureness of his stride; the rare, thin atmosphere was no match for his broad, deep chest. Bohemian Days Three American Tales She moved in a dark dress, light almost as a shadow, but also with freedom and sureness; her greeting was as easy as it was kindly. The Friendships of Women Even then his single hope would lie in quickness of perception and a sureness of judgment that acted flawlessly and smoothly under a supreme strain. A Pagan of the Hills It had come with a swiftness, a sureness incomparable. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Of a sureness he is a strong man, wise, cool, resourceful. Steve Yeager The names Falcon, Hawk, Buzzard, must have been first given to people whose friends and neighbours saw some resemblance to the quickness or fierceness or sureness or some other quality of these birds in them. Stories That Words Tell Us His wife's providential lie for McKie, her agony in her knowledge of his guilt when she sees his face on his return, the man's terror, are handled with masterly firmness and sureness. Irish Plays and Playwrights The game lasted some twenty minutes; and Tinker's skill, sureness, and lightness of movement was the prettiest sight. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World He had made their present journey once before, and his sureness was characteristic of his native instincts. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon She carried her splendor with an air of complete sureness as if she was accustomed to the supremacy it won for her and expected it. Flood Tide The spring and sureness, the poise of these light nothings make them a flight of birds. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Her age was perhaps twenty-five, in her bearing was that subtle, scarcely definable, sureness of self which marks off womanhood from girlhood. Swirling Waters He seemed to fluctuate between bitter sureness of doom and a stupidly optimistic belief that something could be done to avert that doom. The Sky Is Falling But it was governed by a sureness of touch, a perfect tact, and a great understanding of those with whom he came into contact. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon The cunning of the half-breed was diabolic in its sureness. The Place Beyond the Winds Mr. Herndon was not endowed with Boswell's artistic gift for putting his materials together, perhaps because he lacked that delicacy and sureness of moral perception which more than redeemed Boswell's absurdities. Abraham Lincoln Never again will he have the old confidence, the nerve and sureness that has been his chief asset. The Challenge of the North These five varieties can be considered as everybody's roses, because of the easiness and sureness with which they can be grown, taking into consideration the elimination of winter protection. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Not alone because of the quick, keen mind that so often surprised him by its sureness. The Hidden Places That he was a link between the past and the future she realized with strange sureness. The Place Beyond the Winds His hand had not lost its cunning, for there is a sureness and individuality shown in his work during the next few years that stamps him as the Master. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Of course, commercial interests are often opposed to national interests, and improvements in speed and sureness of communication and transportation increase the size and power of commercial organizations. The Navy as a Fighting Machine His line, masterly in its sureness, is rich and charged with feeling. Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise The old sureness of touch in the matter of carving bone had left them. Anthropology Oilers holding oil cans and waste clambered in and out of the rotating masses of iron with astounding sureness and boldness. Atlantis There is no sureness in a man for his purse or his body, or his conscience. Oliver Cromwell The detachment was commanded by a zealous and intelligent officer, Lieutenant Manginot, assisted by a giant called Pasque, an astute man celebrated for the sureness of his attack. The House of the Combrays She looked at Billy whimsically and then as the sureness of his understanding came to her again, she told him the story of her little midnight sweatshop. Lydia of the Pines Still, for the sake of principle, it seems just to protest against the praises given to the foresight of Lanoue, to the sureness of his judgment, to the excellence of his advice. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Turn to him for help in a crowd, and feel the bright sureness of his response. Americans and Others Ishmael knew, with the sureness he had once or twice before known things in his life, and the knowledge affected him strangely. Secret Bread On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson MacRae seemed to see with remarkable clarity and sureness that he would be penalized for yielding to that bewitching fancy. Poor Man's Rock It was her sweet sedateness that gave sureness and reality to the whole affair. The Measure of a Man Their wonderful agility and sureness in climbing about is partly due to the perfect grasping power of the lower limb. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope That working is coldly mechanical, and is not distinguished either by lightness or by sureness of touch. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Now think of this, too, dearest, and never mind the slowness, for the sureness' sake! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The sureness of his step could have originated only in the perfect knowledge of the topography of the h�tel. The Grey Cloak Mary Virginia found herself smarting under that horrible sureness. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man And, with no emotion whatever but a certain grim sureness of himself, he at last adjusted the entirely red cravat. Bunker Bean "No joke, trying to model with one hand; but you wouldn't believe ... the swiftness ... the sureness ... as if my fingers knew...." Far to Seek A Romance of England and India You will bring him the quiet strength and sureness he needs. A Woman Named Smith There were obstacles, however, which marred the sureness of his inspiration. The Grey Cloak It means to me complete control of the fingerboard, a being at home in every position, absolute sureness of fingering, absolute equality of tone under all circumstances. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers The invincible Pandavas, however, possessed of sureness of aim, once more coming against us, shook their bows and covered us with showers of arrows. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 He was so clear and sure; not in flashes and spurts, but continuously, like sunshine; because the clearness and sureness had his whole personality behind them. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India If it was not said, she was dependent upon his charity later, and would cry sleeplessly at night for want of sureness of him. Nocturne Against this physical bigness, against this insolent bravado and this swift sureness of eye and muscle, she knew the small weapon to be a ridiculous and utterly insufficient plaything. Six Feet Four His wonderful playing and sureness of his left hand are worthy of the highest admiration, but, unfortunately, like Paganini, he sacrifices what is artistic to something that is not quite suitable to the noble instrument. Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Thou hast sureness of aim, and presence of mind as regards the selection of means, O Arjuna! The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The romance is heightened by the realism of the technique of naval warfare, by the sureness and voluminosity of nautical knowledge. The Redemption of David Corson But he did not surrender her hand then, for the path up the slope was a deep and difficult one, and she could fairly rely on his strength and sureness of foot. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 To the other contest between them he brought an amazing sureness, a suppleness, power, and audacity beyond praise. Lewis Rand It was his great arms that lifted her feather-weight with extraordinary sureness and gentleness from the carriage, carried her across the platform and deposited her tenderly on her couch in the compartment. Jaffery Causing their arrows to whiz loudly and making diverse other kinds of noise mingled with the blare of their conchs, those effectual smiters possessed of sureness of aim, shaking their bows, uttered leonine roars. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 More and more, as the tranquil years went by, Percy found himself able to draw a quiet satisfaction from the regularity, the even sureness, with which, in every year, one season succeeded to another. A Christmas Garland In such things one feels Browning's want of the unerring sureness of a great dramatist at the crucial moments of action. Robert Browning "That we do, sir," said Dennis, with a sureness which was cool, if nothing more. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him She coloured, taken aback, but after half a second she replied with her ready sureness: "In my father's drawing-room among city people and in my own among literary people." Jaffery Then the mighty-armed and white-steeded Arjuna, O king, of sureness of aim and having Krishna for his charioteer, advanced on his car. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 His favorable reviews of the first works of Howells and James, and the subsequent career of these two men, indicate the sureness of Lowell's critical mind. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays Ford went about his business with grim industry and a sureness of judgment born of his thorough knowledge of range work. The Uphill Climb It seemed that the sureness of his vision had gone. Septimus It was his great arms that lifted her feather-weight with extraordinary sureness and gentleness. Jaffery In feats of agility alone she excelled, not in those of strength—that airy, fragile form was well fitted for swiftness and sureness of action, yet not for muscular force. The Missing Bride He crossed the humming street, northerly, with an experienced sureness acquired since his exploit with the dog Behemoth; and so came into his own section of the town. Queed Though the hint of charlatanry in the Frenchman's methods had not escaped Arthur Burdon's shrewd eyes, the audacious sureness of his hand had excited his enthusiasm. The Magician All, however, agree that she is unscrupulous, that the wish of the woman is the politely insincere wish of the Deity, and that she pursues her course with a serene sureness unknown to man. Septimus However, I can rely on the sureness of your taste, and if your wedding trip takes you to Paris, she will see excellent models to copy. The Dangerous Age Slowly, but with terrible sureness, his brainpower was beginning to crumble away and his mind became as that of a little child. Edward MacDowell All during the afternoon he heard Sharlee identifying fragments of regiments with a sureness of knowledge that he, an authority on knowledge, marveled at. Queed All that he had endured during these nine months had robbed him of the strength of purpose, the matter-of-fact sureness, which had distinguished him. The Magician He spoke with rapidity, sureness, and a note of enthusiasm rang oddly in his voice. Septimus But Dave had observed the sureness of his motions and he accepted nothing as of chance. A Man Four-Square My tears fall when I think of my incomparable Jenny and her astounding mastery of minuti� at "Crow's Nest"—her finesse and exquisite touch, her kittenlike delicacy, her catlike swiftness and sureness. The Red Redmaynes He assumed charge of the ceded hour with skilled sureness. Queed After an apologetic little preamble, he would sit down and play these rococo bits of trailing sound with fingers dipped in lightning, fingers that flashed over the keys in perfect evenness and with perfect sureness. Edward MacDowell He has caught the most curious and truest actions with infallible sureness of sight. The French Impressionists (1860-1900) In debate, there was a wilful aggressiveness, a fiery sureness, a lofty certainty, that moved judges and juries to do their bidding. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen He also knew, with sudden sureness, that it was one of many. Oberheim (Voices) There is every reason, however, why the portraiture of Shakespeare as a Tory, if it is to be done, should be done with grace, intelligence, and sureness of touch. The Art of Letters The sphere of opportunity opens slowly, but to a man of his abilities and culture—rare enough here—with the sureness of chemistry. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. In Ch�ret can be found all the principles of Impressionism: opposing lights, coloured shadows, complementary reflections, all employed with masterly sureness and delightful charm. The French Impressionists (1860-1900) No, it must be her ease, her sureness of herself that banished any awkward self-consciousness both in herself and her companions, and allowed a man to do himself justice. Lady Connie Only in him, too, is the new experience of God's forgiveness and redemption possible, in all its fullness and sureness and power. The Jesus of History But examine closely these little prints—some of them miracles of printing—and you may discern their delicate sureness, subtlety, and economy of gesture. Promenades of an Impressionist See uncertain. certainty, n. sureness, confidence, assurance, surety; fact, truth. Putnam's Word Book He made attempt after attempt, and climbed all ladders and towers with his old sureness of foot; only at St. George's did dizziness return. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig As the campaign drew to a close, circumstances pointed with increasing sureness to the triumph of the Jackson forces. The Reign of Andrew Jackson Far better seek a goal of certainty, a harbor of sureness, in the doing of kindly deeds, noble actions, unselfish devotion to the uplift of others. Quit Your Worrying! It will come with surprising sureness and quickness. Quiet Talks about Jesus Our nation had a faith which it cherished with sincerity and sureness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 He swung off into space with the skill and sureness of the practiced athlete. The Young Engineers in Nevada Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick Mr. Prohack could appreciate the catholicity and sureness of taste which it displayed. Mr. Prohack The quiet, hesitant movement helps the sense of this slow sureness in the working of the social law: "Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small." Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities His sonorous music, with its absolute sureness of purpose, and its contrapuntal art, recalls the vision in Paradise Lost of him who— with volant touch Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue. Landmarks in French Literature Yet when Titian takes colour itself as his chief motive, he can vie with the most sumptuous of them in splendour, and eclipse them all by the sureness of his taste. The Later Works of Titian He chose with the sureness of a strong and penetrating mind, and the most signal example of this capacity was his secretary of the treasury. George Washington, Volume II They swung their ponderous machines to their tasks with a sureness of touch and a swiftness of operation which not only delighted the superintendent, but inspired confidence in their fellow workers. Analyzing Character Yet it is precisely the Incarnation that enables us to lay hold on God's sympathy with a certainty and sureness of grasp that we would not otherwise have. Our Lady Saint Mary The earmark of your coast-born South Carolinian is the selfsame, absolute sureness of himself, his place, his people, in the essential scheme of things. The Purple Heights The Hindoo ties up an arm, for years together, as a penance, thinking thereby he does Brahma service; the limb with fatal sureness withers away, and rots. A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1858 His values were uncertain; and he had none of the sureness of method which men with half his talent had got out of study under a man like, say, Carolus Duran. Fenwick's Career These papers mark, finally, the beginnings of the English novel; for they contain a series of character-studies full of insight, delicacy of drawing, true feeling, and sureness of touch. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 It is only that we have at last acquired great power to modify them by training, so that progress may go on with ever-increasing sureness and rapidity. The Meaning of Infancy Her eyes were clear and unafraid now, and in the poise of her head and body was a sureness of purpose that staggered him. The Alaskan Stimulated by her presence, he worked with a freedom and a sureness that was a delight. The Eyes of the World Had she come so soon to this point?—by the sureness of her own instinct? Fenwick's Career But in all there was the play of a shrewd wit, the touch of sureness, lacking snobbery, of the man who knows where he stands, and a love of entertaining others. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 He seemed to be able to tell unerringly when they were bearing the Viaticum, and it was plain that he felt the responsibility thus resting upon his speed and sureness of foot. Round Anvil Rock A Romance There are other faults—a lack of sureness in taste is one—that could be mentioned but they do not affect the main greatness of his work. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge She told herself she hated him and his dominant will that always beat her own down; she hated him for his amazing strength and for his unvarying sureness of himself. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest He spoke with the sureness of a man of wealth, confident that money will salve any wound. Within the Law She was busy saddling Pard; now she mounted and widened her loop with a sureness of the result that flashed a thrill of expectation to her audience. Jean of the Lazy A But when these faults have been corrected by several attempts, the method gives a confidence, a sense of sureness, which makes the real telling to a real audience ready and spontaneously smooth. How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell His sureness of foot should be beyond question, and of course he must be an expert at foraging. The Mountains And he surprised her too by his sureness of utterance on subjects she had not supposed would enter such a man's mind. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Anyhow, it was about her somewhere, that warm sureness, that sturdy little companion with whom she shared a secret. The Song of the Lark Selden had in fact given her the utmost measure of his sureness, had even stretched it a shade to meet the anxiety in her eyes. House of Mirth "Oh, my dear—if you think that, in such a complicated matter, every day, every hour, doesn't more or less modify one's surest sureness!" The Reef He moved about the room with a certain sureness of touch, swift and relentless and quiet. Sons and Lovers She had reached a stage when she seemed to be no longer feeling her way, working, when in the humor, with sureness and ease. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal sureness. Les Misérables Happily Van Alstyne prided himself on his summing up of social aspects, and with Selden for audience was eager to show the sureness of his touch. House of Mirth More than one appreciative soubrette, met under such circumstances, was subsequently enabled to laud the sureness of his taste in jewels,—he cared little for anything but large diamonds, it transpired. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation For so large a man the foreman showed an agility that was really wonderful, as he leaped from log to log with the swiftness and sureness of a chamois. The Young Woodsman Life in the Forests of Canada He stepped off upon a foot-wide beam, paused to make sure of his poise, and began to walk the girders with a sureness of foot any aviator might have envied. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf But Mr. James was also very much at home in Italian, while in the literature, history, and art of both countries he moved with the well-earned sureness of foot of the student. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 He squatted before the safe and commenced to work the combination with a swift sureness which told McTee at once that the old buccaneer came here many times a day to gloat over his treasure. Harrigan He envied them their easier speech, their matter-of-fact air of omniscience, the elaborate and cultivated simplicity of their dress, their sureness and sufficiency in all that they thought and said and did. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation And slowly drifts, Lingering among the snows Nor, though the snow lifts, Ever goes The wistful heartache as the fresh Spring flows With slipping sureness to the time of the rose, and the withered rose. Miscellany of Poetry 1919 The work had gone with rapidity, yet with sureness, as in those early years of Christianity, which saw so rich and marvellous an upgrowth from the old soil of humanity. The Case of Richard Meynell We all loved Paolo, he was so finished in his being, detached, with an almost classic simplicity and gentleness, an eternal kind of sureness. Twilight in Italy Exorbitant fancy is here much less striking than sureness of touch, outlined figures drawn between the age of five and ten displaying remarkable precision and point, each line of the silhouette telling. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" The white fingers moved with an exquisite sureness and daintiness, the lifted arms showed all the young curves of the girl's form. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I This dignity and sureness commenced to have its effect. The Leopard Woman Mixing with many men as he had done, he had acquired a certain mental sureness of touch, like that of an artist with his brush when he has handled many subjects and many effects. The Slave of the Lamp The Queen's animals were like spirits of the air, with such amazing fleetness and sureness of foot did they shoot over the surface of the earth. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra This scene of exquisite fooling is quite unique in Greek or Latin literature: the breadth and sureness of touch are almost Shakespearian. Latin Literature To them came presently a young person; a young person clad in pink cotton, who walked with a certain demure sureness of tread, as if she knew her own mind and other things besides. From One Generation to Another He and life did not dwell together as they had once; a freedom and a gladness and a sureness had gone. The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love And she was gone, sitting her horse with the ease and sureness of one of those Arabs in whom her grandfather placed such confidence. The Wheel O' Fortune Every one seemed to go about his personal business with an apparent calm, a shrug of expressive shoulders at the most, signifying belief in the sureness of war—soon. The World Decision The latter, in fact, it seemed to me was a stylist who, in unerring sureness, terseness and plasticism, excelled all others. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth He glanced towards her, and she nodded, as if acknowledging the sureness and steadiness of the hand at the helm. Barlasch of the Guard But his imagination was expanding with a steady sureness, and the long years of his apprenticeship were drawing to a close. Henrik Ibsen That would have been a profanation of the indefinable feeling of common pity and mysterious sympathy which had sprung up in them, and was based on nothing save the sureness of their inward vision. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House She went about her many duties with the same silent sureness, the same poise as before. Together He had certainly not much warmth or colour, but he had a sureness of line equal to that of the greatest draughtsmen of Italian art. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Unluckily, since Lucy's rise in the social scale which had marked the last few years, the sureness of her original taste in dress had somewhat deserted her. The History of David Grieve With the sureness of instinct that great affection brings, the awkward, ignorant girl contrived immediately to find the road by which she might reach her beloved's heart. Jean-Christophe, Volume I All are strong, and they are painted with a bigness and a sureness of touch that are compelling. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition And yet Conny, with all her sureness, did not know all her own mental processes. Together With the promptness of the first of the month and the sureness of death, the bill came. Life at High Tide The great awfulness of the Roman power was in the sureness of its conquests. The Chosen People A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children Later he overcame most of this and was able to face a crowd or an audience with composure and sureness. My Boyhood Though containing none of the really famous paintings, there are portraits which show the typical Sargent brilliancy-the swift sureness and the perfect balance of restraint and freedom. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition And no one understands more thoroughly the art of conveying the general impression with perfect sureness, with a foreground where a few characteristic details stand out in picturesque and telling clearness. A History of English Literature But yet, in verity, my spirit did know with a certain sureness, and there was no doubt concerning this thing, in all my being. The Night Land With almost uncanny sureness he picked her out—following, following, never giving the maverick a moment's rest. The Ramblin' Kid I was as confident in my sureness as any saint in the mercy of God. Salute to Adventurers Andrea was a shy youth, a little timid, and by no means vain of his own work, but he painted with surprising swiftness and sureness, and had a very brilliant imagination. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Her sureness, undeniably, was founded on the inalterable strength of her convictions; against that sustaining power, it occurred to him, the correctness of her beliefs might be relatively unimportant. Cytherea And I to have a half knowledge of somewhat amiss; but yet to have no sureness, neither to think much upon this vague feeling. The Night Land This unyielding sureness of reality sometimes crosses our will, and very often leads us to disaster, just as the firmness of the earth invariably hurts the falling child who is learning to walk. Sadhana : the realisation of life His power and station were all that remained to him, a last shield of illusion, which so narrowly blocked out the sureness and finality of Death. Highland Ballad Shakespeare can teach you all there is to be learned of the art of expression, and the rhetoric of a live trout leaping and darting with such ease and sureness cannot well be beaten. Our Friend John Burroughs She felt I had a sense of true values in people, and that the simplicity and sureness with which I had met this situation was the essence of good breeding. The Log-Cabin Lady — An Anonymous Autobiography And she asked again, but using mine old love-name, and with a sureness in her far voice. The Night Land Now, alone with her in the old depot carriage, his sureness permitted him to say, significantly, ``I have been terribly lonely—without Nannie.'' The Iron Woman We are still woefully behind such a country as England, where justice is administered with relative rapidity and sureness. Problems in American Democracy You heard Aaron complaining at table, and Terrence explaining, his sureness. The Little Lady of the Big House But a glory of sureness leaped from horse into man, And the man said, "Now, beauty," and the horse said, "I can." Right Royal At his best, James has a fineness and sureness of touch, and a command of perfectly fitting words, as well as elegance and grace in style. History of American Literature Evidently, if visions would make us sure, God does not care about the kind of sureness they can give, or for our being made sure in that way. Warlock o' Glenwarlock She was taller by several inches; a lissome creature who moved with the sureness and grace of an almost exalted symmetry. The Rose in the Ring His sureness of manner and his uniform impressed her. Little Miss By-The-Day Whatever it was that caused it, Keith turned away with a jerk, walked with the swift sureness of long familiarity straight to the set of shelves and took down a book. Dawn With surprising alacrity and sureness she crawled out beside him and then over upon his broad back, clasping her arms around his neck. Green Fancy Constancy, steadfastness, courage, determination, sureness, and loftiness of purpose were written there…. Youth Challenges He is supported on the left by his fellow-man, adding strength and steadiness to his aim, while on the right the crouching figure of a woman watches anxiously the sureness of his aim. The Art of the Exposition The ice has risen only an inch or more so far, but the very slowness and sureness of it is what's alarming. The Iron Trail With an unparalleled sureness and rapidity of glance with regard to even the most complicated orchestral score, this young man combined a not less marvellous memory. My Life — Volume 2 An agreeable hour followed; but Bob played badly, and found that his eye had lost its sureness. The Auction Block Judging by their rapidity and sureness, they were expert miners. The Spoilers Somehow I feel sure that you and I have won to happiness, now, won to sureness. The Heart of Rachael And as a sudden memory of the old life rose to confront her, Julia's tone became firm; she felt a certain sureness. The Story of Julia Page His enthusiasm, the strength and sureness of him as he stood before her, sent the flush back into her own face. God's Country—And the Woman "It is a serious case," she said to herself—"this to which we are hurrying—and nothing must disturb the sureness of his sensitive hand." Tides of Barnegat At the memory of that scene she grew hot, then cold—hot with anger, icy at the sinister power and sureness which had vibrated in his voice. The Spoilers She liked Alice Valentine's placidity, the sureness of herself that marked this woman as more highly civilized than so many of the other women Rachael knew. The Heart of Rachael With glorious sureness all his dreams were coming true. The Fortunate Youth But his heart beat like a drum at the sureness and triumph that thrilled in the half-breed's voice. God's Country—And the Woman I'd like to have Anne's perfect sureness as to the future, but lacking it, I do not look forward with fear, even if the worst should happen. Letters of Franklin K. Lane If ill, Shall more experiments and more be tried In stress of jeopardy that stirs demand For sureness of proceeding? The Dynasts Even in Steele himself we may observe with what sureness of instinct the men of that age turned aside at the contact of anything likely to make them, in any sense, forget themselves. Essays from 'The Guardian' It was not the indulgent suavity of the fashionable healer, but a manner of poise, of sureness, of ability to overcome fate, of deference and protection and devotion. Rolling Stones The operation must be done at once—no guide marks or trial shots allowed; nothing but sureness of eye. Robur the Conqueror It is hard for an army officer to get out of the desk habit, and caution, conservatism, sureness, seem even in time of crisis to be more important than a bit of daring. Letters of Franklin K. Lane The consciousness of looking her best gave her manner a light sureness that was very charming. Maurice Guest He developed a genius for organization, a sureness of judgment, and a tact in management, as well as a skill and speed in play, that won the confidence of every member of his team. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry This is shown by his numerous citations, the sureness of his touch, and his mastery of all the subjects of which he treats. Rashi The steersman, with a sureness of hand rendered more effective by the sensitiveness of the rudder, maneuvered his craft as if she were a crack racer in a Royal Victoria match. Robur the Conqueror On the other hand the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Essays — First Series This sureness of direction, this faithful memory for places can be explained by repeated previous visits. The Mason-Bees It came as upon a single buffet of wind with such sureness and fragrance and emphasis that it almost seemed a living visitant. The Four Million He knew himself beaten, realised the dexterous ease, the masterly economy of vigour and the deadly sureness of his opponent's play. The Snare They climbed or dropped down perpendicular places with the sureness and coolness of mountain goats, and never a horse fell or baulked. The Cruise of the Snark He leaped out into the air, cleared the intervening space between the plank and the rope, his fingers closing over the latter with a sureness born of long experience. The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show When she plays Chopin, she interprets his sureness and neatness. The Mutiny of the Elsinore She writes with fair speed and absolute sureness. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy Lad ran back, once more, a few feet; his gaze fixed appraisingly on the window and measuring his distance with the sureness of a sharpshooter. Further Adventures of Lad At the moment his master's sureness of the route had failed his horse had divined the fact. Waifs and Strays Part 1 A pushing, clear-eyed, stout-hearted man; much cleverness and sureness in what he did and forbore to do. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 With the step and sureness and the eyes of an Indian he went down through that pitch-black canyon to the river and the ford. Wildfire Then harmony with every spheric song, And conscious power, would give sureness divine. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul She took off her kerchief and her gown and calmly submitted to the woman's rough hands as they wandered with sureness and accuracy to the various pockets and folds that might conceal prohibited articles. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel In there I could see a short, sturdy, leisurely and weather-beaten man moving with professional sureness about his red-hot stove. Waifs and Strays Part 1 He showed Bud where to turn the horses, and went to work on the pack rope, his crooked old fingers moving with the sureness of lifelong habit. Cow-Country All were surprised that, young and inexperienced as I was, I should have so much cleverness of manner and such sureness of delivery. Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors The detection of this blunder in the two veterans, who prided themselves on the sureness and quickness of their sight, produced a hearty laugh at their expense, and put an end to their vauntings. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West The poem is in Spenserian stanzas, and he manages the long breaking wave of that measure with sureness and ease, imparting to it a rapidity of onset that is all his own. Shelley Jane Withersteen knew it now, and in the realization further coolness and sureness came to her, and the fighting courage of her ancestors. Riders of the Purple Sage He could hear its voice, he could understand its silence, and he could interpret both for us in his prose with all that felicity and sureness of effect that belong to a poetical conception alone. Notes on Life and Letters The American artists began the rehearsal without a prompter, and with a sureness to be envied especially by our Italian actors, who usually must have every word suggested to them. Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors And remember, mine is the white man’s wisdom, and do what I have bid you, with sureness and despatch.’ The Faith of Men He would not speak—she knew it; and she knew, likewise, with the sureness of faith, that it was because he could not. Moon-Face He betrayed the inaccuracies of the self-read man, and, it must be granted, the sureness and directness of the primitive mind. The Sea Wolf Each study in this volume presents some idea, illustrated by a fact told without artifice, but with an elective sureness of knowledge. Notes on Life and Letters He must have divined Wolf Larsen’s trick and the sureness of detection, for the light was at once dashed from my hand and the forecastle was left in darkness. The Sea Wolf |
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