A certain degree of shyness and even awkwardness is not at all a disagreeable thing--indeed it is rather a desirable quality--in the young.
One of the principal vices of the elective system is that it always introduces a certain degree of instability into the internal and external policy of the State.
A certain degree of power must be granted to public officers, for they would be of no use without it.
The humblest individual who is called upon to co-operate in the government of society acquires a certain degree of self-respect; and as he possesses authority, he can command the services of minds much more enlightened than his own.
In doing this, however, she did not neglect a certain degree of caution, and avoided exposing her person as much as possible.
The salutations were friendly, and the manner in which the mysterious chief regarded the equally mysterious bee- hunter, was not altogether without a certain degree of awe.
This seemed all the more probable since the man was religious, and even practised his religion to a certain degree, a thing which was very favorably viewed at that epoch.
His natural timidity rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain degree.
When a certain degree of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres.
Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thenardier himself could add nothing to this blackness of this night.
Reciprocally, however imperfect and confined the creature is supposed to be, from the moment that it exists it enjoys a certain degree of good, better for it than annihilation.
Madame," continued the commissary, without being able to repress a certain degree of emotion, "I am about to speak to you very severely.
But, sir, without attaching much importance to the luxuries of life, there is a certain degree of comfort, which age renders almost indispensable, and which you seem to have utterly renounced.
Then he is thinking mostly of her, and is to a certain degree embarrassed by the effort necessary for success.
In truth, he was, in a certain degree, mad on this subject.
There they would exchange courtesies, and, to a certain degree, show that they were intimate.
Ehrenberg states that these particles all retain a certain degree of irritability.
The tucutucos appear, to a certain degree, to be gregarious: the man who procured the specimens for me had caught six together, and he said this was a common occurrence.
Upon landing, I found to my great surprise that I was to a certain degree a prisoner.
These droughts to a certain degree seem to be almost periodical; I was told the dates of several others, and the intervals were about fifteen years.
And yet it is very possible that, according to his theological views, your eminence has been, in a certain degree, in the wrong.
To those developed and clearly defined muscles starting from his face, to his hair matted with sweat, to the energetic heaving of his chin and shoulders, it was impossible to refuse a certain degree of admiration.
Colbert seized the paper with an eagerness which the musketeer did not remark without uneasiness, and particularly without a certain degree of regret at having trusted him with it.
No, Sir, we have a certain degree of feeling to prompt us to do good: more than that, Providence does not intend.
Why, Sir, few of them do, because they do not persevere after acquiring a certain degree of it.
He boasted to me at this time of the power of his pen in commanding money, which I believe was true in a certain degree, though in the instance he gave he was by no means correct.
Possessing a certain degreeof firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
As yet every attempt to induce him to bear his terrible misfortune with even a certain degree of composure had failed.
All very well, my lord," replied the earl, who ever treated Lord de Mowbray with a certain degree of ceremony, especially when the descendant of the crusaders affected the familiar.
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