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He has taken a masterly advantage of our helplessness; and has imposed terms on us, for performances at Derby and Nottingham, with such a business-like disregard of all interests but his own that -- fond as I am of putting things down in black and white -- I really cannot prevail upon myself to record the bargain.

The presentation of my own character is masterly in the extreme.

Knowing that Denisov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly way in which he danced the mazurka, Nicholas ran up to Natasha:

Again I say it is a great pity that criticism is not honest about the masterpieces of literature, and does not confess that they are not every moment masterly, that they are often dull and tough and dry, as is certainly the case with Dante's.

A younger woman might have resented his masterly ways, but Margaret had too firm a grip of life to make a fuss.

But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.

"My fingers," said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do.

All the discourses of Socrates are masterly, noble, new, and inquisitive; but that they are all true it may probably be too much to say.

Never was so masterly a creature so completely baffled.

The "Hymn to Aphrodite" is not the least remarkable, from a literary point of view, of the whole collection, exhibiting as it does in a masterly manner a divine being as the unwilling victim of an irresistible force.

Garrow, whose subtle cross-examination of witnesses and masterly, if sometimes startling, methods of arriving at the truth seemed more thrilling to us than any novel.

In 1706 he had written a masterly short story, 'The Apparition of Mrs.