It is needless to say that no sleight-of-hand performer, however expert, unless aided by the powers of darkness, could have accomplished this feat; but a luckless child in the pursuit of virtue had done it with a turn of the wrist.
Now the last chance was lost, and she had not even attempted this difficult feat of charity.
He saw in Henry a young and sedate man of remarkable shrewdness, a man who had saved money, had made money for others, and was now making it for himself; a man who could be trusted absolutely to perform that feat of 'getting on'; a 'safe' and profoundly respectable man, at the same time audacious and imperturbable.
Had he been capable of self-analysis, he would have discovered that his heart lightened whenever he left the house, and grew dark whenever he returned; but he was incapable of the feat.
' She read through the deed, and after she had accomplished the feat one fact only stood clear in her mind, that the partnership was for seven years, a period extensible by consent of both parties to fourteen or twenty-one years.
Ephraim Tellwright the investor was usually as shy as a well-fed trout, and this capture of him by a youngster only two years established in business might fairly be regarded as a prodigious feat.
To Anna it was a thrilling feat, but she noticed that a man who stood in the yard did not even turn his head to watch it.
no such feat was in my power.
" But an interview with Judge Kemble, a fine of twenty-five dollars, and lectures from all the grown people of his acquaintance, prevented him from regarding his escapade as a feat to boast of.
Casaubon had been a dragon who had carried her off to his lair with his talons simply and without legal forms, it would have been an unavoidable feat of heroism to release her and fall at her feet.
" James has achieved the feat in 1,475 regular-season games, reaching double-digit points in each of the last 1,205 of those.
Jolnes was restored to his calm, observant serenity by having wrested victory from his apparent failure; so after we got off the car he invited me into a café, promising to reveal the process of his latest wonderful feat.
After I had performed the marvellous digito-nasal feat I said: "I do not wish to deceive you as to symptoms, Doctor; I really have something like a pain in the back of my head.
This was no easy feat, as Erik Spoelstra's team has been one of the Eastern Conference's best all season long.
How do we explain the ease with which the 56-year-old demonstrated his favorite frontier feat of strength - holding a heavy ax at arm's length between his fingers - just a few days before his death?
A feat that has not been achieved before in history and that cannot be achieved by anyone in future, ever again.
:《Shape of You》 Sheeran himself commented on the feat, writing on Instagram: "Thank you world.
" To honor the feat, the Hawks showed a video on the overhead screen in which Carter received congratulations from notable NBA players, including Hawks legend Dominique Wilkins, a fellow member of the 25,000-point club.
Soon after the Indian feat, Nasa crashed a spacecraft into the 100km-wide Cabeus crater which is in permanent shade on the moon's south pole.
"I'm proud of him," his mother said after he completed the feat.
