But once in a while she came up against that curious streak of granite in Emily's composition which was unyielding and unbendable and unbreakable.
But neither of these arguments was sufficient to convince Aunt Elizabeth, in spite of the thrifty streak that came to her from the Burnleys.
She's got a streak of their pride, too, and that'll help her through.
Suddenly Granny Fox started across the bridge so fast that she looked like a little red streak.
Suddenly Granny Fox started across the bridge so fast that she looked like a little red streak.
For girls, Olivia continues its reign as the most chosen name, maintaining a streak that began in 2016.
"Billy seemed the sanest of the lot till he got married and then this queer jealous streak cropped out in him.
His father, Abner Moore, kept store at the Glen, but Dick had a sea-going streak in him from his mother; he used to sail in summer and clerk in his father's store in winter.
"That's Marshall Elliott—a mighty fine man with jest one streak of foolishness in him.
But the streak of irritation and hostile triumph seemed to melt for a little while into purer fatherly pride and pleasure, when, Tom's health having been proposed, and uncle Deane having taken occasion to say a few words of eulogy on his general character and conduct, Tom himself got up and made the single speech of his life.
" This streak of bitterness came from a plenteous source, and kept widening in the current of his thought as he neared Lowick Gate.
" The slight streak of contempt in this hasty reply offended Dorothea.
She did not really see the streak of sunlight on the floor more than she saw the statues: she was inwardly seeing the light of years to come in her own home and over the English fields and elms and hedge-bordered highroads; and feeling that the way in which they might be filled with joyful devotedness was not so clear to her as it had been.
She was not looking at the sculpture, probably not thinking of it: her large eyes were fixed dreamily on a streak of sunlight which fell across the floor.
Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.
He found a long streak from wrist to elbow when he went to bed that night.
"I am looking," said the Mole, "at a streak of bubbles that I see travelling along the surface of the water.
"I can tell when a streak of humidity the size of a table-cloth starts from Florida on its way to New York.
When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable.
Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged.
