Even Solomon Daisy himself, by
dint of the elevating influences of fire, lights, brandy, and good company, so far recovered as to handle his knife and fork in a highly creditable manner, and to display a capacity both of eating and drinking, such as banished all fear of his having sustained any lasting injury from his fright.
Costume, at a glance, gave him a thrilling association with horses (enough to specify the hat-brim which took the slightest upward angle just to escape the suspicion of bending downwards), and nature had given him a face which by
dint of Mongolian eyes, and a nose, mouth, and chin seeming to follow his hat-brim in a moderate inclination upwards, gave the effect of a subdued unchangeable sceptical smile, of all expressions the most tyrannous over a susceptible mind, and, when accompanied by adequate silence, likely to create the reputation of an invincible understanding, an infinite fund of humor-- too dry to flow, and probably in a state of immovable crust,-- and a critical judgment which, if you could ever be fortunate enough to know it, would be the thing and no other.
He spilled a little of it over the chest which ought to have been so effective, and which had done so little; but on the whole drank it with something of an air, though the coming and going
dints got almost as large, the while, as if they had been made by pressure of the teaspoon.
There were some marks in it that might have been dimples, if the material had been softer and the instrument finer, but which, as it was, were only
dints. The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off.
When great masses of stone and timber fell, the face with the two
dints in the nose became obscured: anon struggled out of the smoke again, as if it were the face of the cruel Marquis, burning at the stake and contending with the fire.
And together with Hidilyn, the women athletes have shown that, even if they are sidelined and ignored by a basketball-obsessed nation, by
dint of their individual will and abilities, they are still able to prove themselves worthy of honor and acclaim.
He said Labour must accept the Tories have a national mandate by
dint of their election victory, adding: "We are at risk of being left behind by procrastination over the elected mayors issue."
The book is replete with cases of Black mothers and fathers, who by
dint of their own persistence and sacrifice ensured that their children had access to health care and education, thereby challenging contemporary stereotyping of Black parents as irresponsible and neglectful.
However, there still appears to be a section on winning hearts and minds by
dint of staff reduction in periods of maximum demand.
Al-Halqi, who was speaking during a meeting with chairman and members of Damascus and its Countryside Chamber of Industry board of directors, expressed trust that the Syrians will restore "Made in Syria" brand to its previous glamour by
dint of the Syrian businessmen ad industrials' efforts.
But it
dint turned out to be in favor of common people.
They're related by
dint of the same displacement and six cylinders.
Dubai: By
dint of its origin and track-record since, ITL-Cosmos has an indelible imprint in any history of Dubai's businesses.
In sum, "
Dint (a, b) f k" denotes the integral of f on [a, b] is k.
The men's and women's football teams qualified for 2012 by
dint of host nation berths, but concerns over unifying the four home nations over the longer term meant GB's involvement was only ever billed as a one-off arrangement.
