But one thing they lacked, the thing that he possessed, the flame of
mastery that would not quench, that burned fiercely as ever in the disease- wasted body, and that was ever ready to flare forth and scorch and singe them with its ire.
All Jerry's large vocabulary, all his proficiency in the use of it, which would have set him apart as a marvel beyond all other dogs in the
mastery of speech, was wasted on those of the Ariel.
He sailed with skill, stopping way on the boat without exciting the notice of the wranglers, and mentally forgiving his hardest voyages in that they had made this marvellous night possible, giving him
mastery over sea and boat and wind so that he could sail with her beside him, her dear weight against him on his shoulder.
Here was
mastery and power, something far and away beyond him.
I reached the age when the strongest of all the passions seizes on the senses, and asserts its
mastery over mind and body alike.
TWO GAME COCKS were fiercely fighting for the
mastery of the farmyard.
With the certainty of absolute
mastery he causes men and women to live for us, a vast representative group, in all the actual variety of age and station, perfectly realized in all the subtile diversities and inconsistencies of protean human nature.
Now, there was an old manor-house, where they no longer ate snails, they were quite extinct; but the burdocks were not extinct, they grew and grew all over the walks and all the beds; they could not get the
mastery over them--it was a whole forest of burdocks.
Through one violet-stained window a soft light glowed, where, no doubt, the organist loitered over the keys, making sure of his
mastery of the coming Sabbath anthem.
Then he was a masterful dog, and what made him dangerous was the fact that the club of the man in the red sweater had knocked all blind pluck and rashness out of his desire for
mastery.
And the sun is gone," she said, her eyes still fixed upon our island, where we had proved our
mastery over matter and attained to the truest comradeship that may fall to man and woman.
As the days passed, however, and the news came to be no better, but rather worse, something besides anxiety began to show in the man's face: despair, and a very dogged determination, each fighting for the
mastery.
