At no time could purposeful exhalations be detected, and no explanation of her feigned vomiting could be gained.
A purposeful man, a deep thinker, a man of the highest principles, Mr. Angus is representative of the empire builders of Canada.
Quiet in demeanor, he is purposeful and unconsciously exerts an influence which makes for domination.
Stopping on the step below Jane, Alicia stared hard at the quiet, purposeful face looking down on her.
Now----" With a purposefulhand Jane tore the offending paper to bits.
There was a purposeful gleam in her eye despite the apparent carelessness of the comment.
His steady gray eyes had a compelling and purposeful clarity, and I could not help thinking as we talked what such a companionship would have meant in those other days of loneliness and danger.
Charlotte and Harold had kept out of my way, as well as out of everybody else's, in a purposeful manner that ought to have bred suspicion.
Humbly, almost timidly, I followed without a protest in the wake of these two remorseless, purposeful young persons, who were marching straight for the schoolroom.
Savage eyes went in quest of deadly things, and purposeful hands obeyed the common impulse.
One imagined rightly that he was very strong, that he could be swift and purposeful in his movements, despite an apparent deliberation.
But now, a week later, when Magda reverted to the subject with a certain purposeful definiteness, she grew suddenly frightened.
But this quiet, purposeful composure which had succeeded it filled her with an odd kind of misgiving.
The Sentimental Journey presented no inscrutable mystery of purposeful eccentricity and perplexing personality, but was written large in great human characters which he who ran might read.
This division is followed by an evidently purposeful return to Sterne’s eccentricity of manner.
One was tall and strode with a purposeful elegance; the other lumbered.
Vice Admiral James Powlett was coming up the companionway with a purposeful stride.
Purposeful tremors too slight to be perceived by the subject.
The objection that there is simulation in automatic table-turning may well be given up, when one considers the phenomenon of thought-reading from the purposeful tremors which the patient offered in such plenitude.
After a little practice the phenomenon indicated is wont to disappear, since by practice the number is read and reproduced directly from the purposeful movements.
In a responsive medium these purposeful tremors of the experimenter act just as the intentional taps in the experiment cited above; they are received, strengthened and reproduced, although slightly wavering.
By means of the purposeful tremors whole conversations can be carried on, as in our case.
These purposeful tremors can be demonstrated in a very simple way by experiments with the pendulum.
Cousins died in 1887, after a most brilliant and purposeful career.
Such an art may be both erudite and comprehensive in its information, for it is executed with a purposeful patience which omits nothing, forgets nothing, and maintains a convincing directness of expression.
So saying, he picked up Captain Danby's heavy cane and with it gripped in purposeful hand, led the way from the room.
We stood very silent, looking upon each other, while the blackbird piped in the orchard below; and now I trembled no more, for my anger was passed and in its stead was a cold and purposeful determination.
At that Rabecque stepped towards them, verypurposeful of mien.
She beheld now in her son a man more purposeful than she had ever known before.
Nowhere over all the wide Pacific have the natives been more wisely or unselfishly ruled than in Fiji, yet even here native life seems to be growing less and less purposeful year by year.
He does not make a bolt of it because he is a coward, or rather a greater than average coward, but simply because his training has not furnished him with a reserve of purposeful presence of mind.
All soldiers are the better of being “blooded”; they never attain purposeful coolness till they have acquired a personal familiarity with blood and death.
Abide there, and as your eyes grow accustomed to the darkness, the strange lines upon its walls which seemed at first so meaningless, will group themselves into shapes and forms of purposeful design.
Mere inequality in the numbers of persons selected from different races is not conclusive; discrimination is unlawful only if it is purposeful and systematic.
For an unlawful administration of a valid statute to constitute a violation of constitutional rights, purposeful discrimination must be shown.
He, this man who had robbed me of my hard-working, purposeful existence.
He accepted that feeling with a purposeful sternness, and tried to pass on.
I will risk the assertion that life introduces something incalculable and purposeful amid the laws of physics; it thus distinctly supplements those laws, though it leaves them otherwise precisely as they were and obeys them all.
There are people who do not like to play the game of life seriously because they say the consequences of self-denial and self-sacrifice are too uncertain; they prefer the cowardice of inaction to the courage of purposeful living.
There is infinite variety, but in every case there is apt to be something that takes the purposeful reader back to the days when his own ambition was taking shape.
Two things are necessary if you would be successful," was another man's message to those whom he wished to inspire to do purposeful work.
I saw meeting after meeting of impassive unemotional, black-coated gentlemen lifted into the undemonstrative white-heat of purposeful enthusiasm by the suggestion of that new hope which I failed to understand.
His observing eyes were fixed with growing interest on the purposeful face still thrust forward, and for a moment they were startled by something uncanny, something back of a normal human enthusiasm.
He sat silently looking out of the car window for a moment, while the nurse studied his serious, purposeful face and mentally revised her previous estimate of him.
The decision and the action were both characteristic of Donald MacDonald, in whose Yankee veins ran the blood of a dour and purposeful Scottish clan.
That Beulah was not the most purposeful member of her class merely argues that an almost abnormally high standard of purposefulness was maintained by practically every individual in it.
