The general tuckermanities are arrant Bubbles - ephemeral and so transparent - But this is, now, - you may depend upon it - Stable, opaque, immortal - all by
dint Of the dear names that lie concealed within 't.
Whether people, by
dint of sitting together in the same place and the same relative positions, and doing exactly the same things for a great many years, acquire a sixth sense, or some unknown power of influencing each other which serves them in its stead, is a question for philosophy to settle.
Two or three times I endeavoured to insinuate myself between the canes, and by
dint of coaxing and bending them to make some progress; but a bull-frog might as well have tried to work a passage through the teeth of a comb, and I gave up the attempt in despair.
By
dint of leaping, climbing, gambolling amid the abysses of the gigantic cathedral he had become, in some sort, a monkey and a goat, like the Calabrian child who swims before he walks, and plays with the sea while still a babe.
By
dint of an ingenious counsel, and a legal flaw, he escaped; but only to undergo a worse punishment; for, some years afterwards, his house was broken open in the night by robbers, tempted by the rumours of his great wealth, and he was found murdered in his bed.
Her bridal adornments, it is true, at first caused some little dismay, having painted and anointed herself for the occasion according to the Chinook toilet; by
dint, however, of copious ablutions, she was freed from all adventitious tint and fragrance, and entered into the nuptial state, the cleanest princess that had ever been known, of the somewhat unctuous tribe of the Chinooks.
At length it reached the province of Damerghou; there the three travellers parted, and Barth took the road to Kano, where he arrived by
dint of perseverance, and after paying considerable tribute.
She had never been permitted to wear it before, and it had only been by
dint of much coaxing that she had induced Aunt Janet to let her wear it to the concert.
In Tarzan's camp, by
dint of threats and promised rewards, the ape-man had finally succeeded in getting the hull of a large skiff almost completed.
At length, by
dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style,
Each
dint upon his batter'd shield Was token of a foughten field; And thus, beneath his lady's bower, He sung as fell the twilight hour:
By
dint of pinching here, and scraping there, our debts were already nearly paid.