1 So, she was intensely annoyed when he dropped his masquerade and set out apparently upon a deliberate campaign to alienate Atlanta's good will.
2 His craving was for the companionship of one whose point of view should justify his own, who should confirm, by deliberate observation, the truth to which his intuitions had leaped.
3 But she was a deliberate and joyous spendthrift in her preparations for her first party, the housewarming.
4 Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case.
5 Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.
6 He was usually cold and distant with men, but with all women he had a silent, grave familiarity, a special handshake, accompanied by a significant, deliberate look.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II 7 He seemed conscious of possessing a keener power of enjoyment than other people; his quick recognitions made him frantically impatient of deliberate judgments.
8 Heyward felt a burning desire to rush forward to meet them, so intense was the delirious anxiety of the moment; but he was restrained by the deliberate examples of the scout and Uncas.
9 A steady, though deliberate return was made from the rifle of Chingachgook, who had maintained his post throughout the fray with unmoved resolution.
10 He now spoke in Delaware to his companions, and his address, though calm and deliberate, seemed very decided.
11 Another long and deliberate pause succeeded these sententious questions and ready replies.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 12 Collecting all his energies in one effort he snapped the twigs which bound him and rushed upon another savage, who was preparing, with loud yells and a more deliberate aim, to repeat the blow.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 13 The hunter, like the savage whose place he filled, seemed to select among the blind signs of their wild route, with a species of instinct, seldom abating his speed, and never pausing to deliberate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 14 Morning is just touching them below," said the deliberate and musing scout, "and the watchers have a mind to wake up the sleepers by the sound of cannon.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 15 An Indian never starts on such an expedition without smoking over his council-fire; and, though a man of white blood, I honor their customs in this particular, seeing that they are deliberate and wise.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18