Carpenter as supreme judge, and her whole future career—so she believed—hanging on his verdict.
This, then, is a national affair, with far-reaching issues, therefore an appeal to the Supreme Pontiff is quite in order.
And then, for one glorious, supreme moment, came "the flash.
The noise rivalled that of a fair; there was no quiet anywhere, save in the farthest recess of each stall, where the lady in supreme charge of it, like a spider in the middle of its web, watched customers and cash-box with equal cupidity.
His manner showed that, while secretly proud of his supreme position in that assemblage, he was deliberately trying to make it appear that this exercise of judicial authority was nothing to him, that in truth these eternal inquiries, which interested others so deeply, were to him a weariness conscientiously endured.
They knew him supreme as a religious worker; they did not realise the likelihood of his becoming supreme in the staple manufacture.
Wales mirrored England's preferences for girls, with Olivia reigning supreme.
Rejoice in my good luck: congratulate me on my supreme happiness, and believe me, dear cynic and misanthrope, yours, in the best of health and spirits, GINEVRA LAURA DE HAMAL, née FANSHAWE.
" was her cry; and when I lifted the heavy blind from the casement close at hand—with her own royal gesture, she showed me a moon supreme, in an element deep and splendid.
Every stride of the horses and every turn of the wheels was taking us nearer to our supreme adventure.
You threw it down, no doubt, at that supreme moment when you charged into the empty hut.
'" I thought that she had fainted, but she recovered herself by a supreme effort.
Their hands and lips met; it was life's supreme moment for them and as they stood there in the old garden, with its many years of love and delight and sorrow and glory, he crowned her shining hair with the red, red rose of a love triumphant.
" "Then," said Anne, with a long sigh of supreme satisfaction, "this house you have found IS my house of dreams and none other.
Ayrton alone, by a supreme effort, from time to time raised his head, and cast a despairing glance over the desert ocean.
At length, shortly after midnight, Captain Nemo by a supreme effort succeeded in folding his arms across his breast, as if wishing in that attitude to compose himself for death.
He seemed to be torn by a supreme convulsion.
But I see no reason why any man of average intelligence should not, after a year of continuous reading, be fit to assault the supreme masterpieces of history or philosophy.
And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurts us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.
The boat reappeared, but brother and sister had gone down in an embrace never to be parted; living through again in one supreme moment the days when they had clasped their little hands in love, and roamed the daisied fields together.
