Indirect tactics,
efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.
By your own confession the trust machines do the work more
efficiently and more cheaply than you can.
On the contrary, he was extremely angry, with the confused impotent anger of one who finds himself unreasonably but
efficiently frustrated.
At this stage of the process, some one of the party suggested feathers; but the suggestion was at once overruled by the dwarf, who soon convinced the eight, by ocular demonstration, that the hair of such a brute as the ourang-outang was much more
efficiently represented by flu.
Striding clumsily but
efficiently, like a laboring-man, she led him into the largest building, where Daylight saw a hand-press and all the paraphernalia on a small scale for the making of wine.
But I entreat you to bear in mind, very seriously and steadily, that if I am to do you any good, it can only be with your own assistance; and that you can only render that,
efficiently, by seeking aid from Heaven.'
We did our best; and I hope we affirmed our faith in the power of Hollis's charm
efficiently enough to put the matter beyond the shadow of a doubt.
There is no objection to my having an unofficial interview with him, either here in my rooms or elsewhere, as long as he is
efficiently guarded?"
Over all these causes of Change I am convinced that the accumulative action of Selection, whether applied methodically and more quickly, or unconsciously and more slowly, but more
efficiently, is by far the predominant Power.
'Indeed?' returned Clennam, upon whom this impression was so
efficiently made by a mere gleam of the polished head that he spoke the ship instead of the Tug.
He had no remorse; but the evildoer who can hold that avenger at bay, cannot escape the slower torture of incessantly doing the evil deed again and doing it more
efficiently. In the defensive declarations and pretended confessions of murderers, the pursuing shadow of this torture may be traced through every lie they tell.
Next day it all came out, sadly to my chagrin; and still I was not altogether sorry: I thought the burden of directing and warning would be more
efficiently borne by him than me.