Word: dashing
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...stuffy businessman parceling his time between his shops, his stocks and his political ambitions. When Hélene wanders to the kitchen for companionship, the maid shoos her out, tells her: "Masters are masters and servants are servants! Society makes these rules." To give her life a dash of drama, Hélene pretends, when in school, not to know her lessons-just to hear her classmates titter and her teachers upbraid her. Down deep she is convinced that, except for a miracle, "nothing will ever happen to me in all my life...
Santayana greeted his callers dressed in old, worn clothing--a figure completely devoid of dash of affectation. Seeing him thus, Miller found it hard to puncture him as the handsome, well-dressed young man of the Harvard days, when William James called him "an elegant fish...
Stevenson said that it "would be foolish to try to predict how & when the peaceful purpose of our power will succeed in creating a just and durable peace." Apparently, such a result is not to be expected soon: "The contest with tyranny is not a hundred-yard dash-it is a test of endurance...
When the "A" offensive team returned to action near the close of the scrimmage, Clasby began giving the on-lookers what they were hoping for. He broke loose for two runs of about 40 yards each, the second one a spectacular dash down the sidelines. The crowed, seemingly satisfied, offered up a spontaneous round of applause and began heading for the exits...
...that the day's work was over, and the guards descended from the fortress walls. Gavenda crawled out of the recessed gun port, got a firm hold on the outer wall and swung himself down to the ground. The others tumbled after him. The six men made a dash for a railroad embankment, ran under its cover to a bridge across the Vah River. Gavenda almost fell over a woman washing clothes in the river. She stared at the men in grey prison clothes, said quietly: "You will not get through this way." Gavenda shot back over his shoulder...