His masterfulness delighted me and terrified me, for my fancies wantonly roved until I found myself considering him as a lover, as a husband. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A little later during the meal I ventured to talk about what had interested me and aroused my admiration, namely, the masterfulness with which Mr. Pike and Mr. Mellaire had gripped hold of that woeful, worthless crew. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As for the five Asiatics, I feel that they are stouter behind me now that I have shown masterfulness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sometimes as they twist they seem almost to falter, and their wings almost to battle with one another, wrestling each other's velocity and direction, as if the whole organism will be ripped apart by conflicting impulses, until the bird reasserts again all its anarchic masterfulness once more. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His very strength and masterfulness makes her conquest complete. ❋ Arhyalon (2007)
And also, she to stir me odd whiles unto masterfulness; and so you to know pretty well how it did be with me in the matter. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He found her sweet spot and rasped his fingertip over it and over it with a masterfulness that brought her right to the edge of climax. ❋ Bast, Anya (2005)
In making this resolution — that he would give her back her troth if she asked for it, but not without expressing to her his thoughts as he did so — he ignored the masterfulness of his own character. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He met her at the movies in the morning; he drove out to her flat in the late afternoon or on evenings when he was believed to be at the Elks. He knew her financial affairs and advised her about them, while she lamented her feminine ignorance, and praised his masterfulness, and proved to know much more about bonds than he did. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There was about his father a spirit of masterfulness, which he was sure Marie would not be able to withstand. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Francis Wilmot rose, and spoke with a kind of masterfulness. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Early in his career Christmas showed and materialised the quality of masterfulness, his chief trait. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mr. Caswall, too, took new courage from her coming, and all his masterfulness and power came back to him. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was perhaps her masterfulness, her positiveness, something matter-of-fact in her. ❋ Unknown (2002)
And I think you can see the benefits of it in the quality, the masterfulness, of Linda Greenhouse. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Unmasterful in his personal relations with women, the male attains to masterfulness by the manipulation of money and everything controlled by money, in other words, of everything and everybody. ❋ Unknown (1967)
Jakob von Liegnitz, all Teutonic masterfulness and Old World suavity, had obviously made a favorable impression on her. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)
But in the meantime here was Dalton -- with his money, his motors, and his masterfulness. ❋ Temple Bailey (N/A)
When he turned his face towards her it was charged with passion, but most of all with a grave masterfulness. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
There was a cool masterfulness in the tone of this that arrested Elfrida's feeling of half-penitence, and armed her instantly. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
