His assistant struggles in a sea of aggressive young men carrying note-books or upholding cameras and wearing bowler hats and enterprising ties.
No one big, it was felt, could have so virulently aggressive an expression, though, as a matter of fact, Butteridge had a height of six feet two inches, and a weight altogether proportionate to that.
The Irish missionaries were simple and loving men and won converts by the beauty of their lives; the Romans brought with them the architecture, music, and learning of their imperial city and the
aggressive energy which in the following centuries was to make their Church supreme throughout the Western world.
Then with her little scissors, by the aid of a pocket looking-glass, she mercilessly nipped her eyebrows off, and thus insured against
aggressive admiration she went on her uneven way.
And Bill struggles out, a muddy, trampled wreck, and in an unnecessarily
aggressive mood - he being under the evident belief that the whole thing has been done on purpose.
I could forgive him everything save his youth, but it is so
aggressive that I have sometimes to order William testily to close the window.
His face in repose was not an unpleasing one, though his heavy brows and
aggressive chin gave him, as I had lately seen, a terrible expression when moved to anger.
O my friend, I said, do not attack the multitude: they will change their minds, if, not in an
aggressive spirit, but gently and with the view of soothing them and removing their dislike of over-education, you show them your philosophers as they really are and describe as you were just now doing their character and profession, and then mankind will see that he of whom you are speaking is not such as they supposed--if they view him in this new light, they will surely change their notion of him, and answer in another strain.
We had all got into a first-class smoker, and he had already lit the short and charred old briar pipe which seemed to singe the end of his long,
aggressive nose.
No, it was not our harsh,
aggressive, realistic daylight; it seemed properer to an enchanted land--or to heaven.
Lively Proceedings." My scientific education having been somewhat neglected, I was unable to follow the whole argument, but it was evident that the English Professor had handled his subject in a very
aggressive fashion, and had thoroughly annoyed his Continental colleagues.
Welland's saying, with indignant tears: "I should as soon turn the reporters loose in my house." Yet there was a time when Archer had had definite and rather
aggressive opinions on all such problems, and when everything concerning the manners and customs of his little tribe had seemed to him fraught with world-wide significance.
