"Unless," objected the consul, "he is
exceptionally shrewd.
Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom Natasha, who was
exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas de chale, but at this last ball only the ecossaise, the anglaise, and the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced.
We know that Ernest Everhard was an
exceptionally strong man, but not so exceptional as his wife thought him to be.
My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was
exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
On an
exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S.
Earlier in the evening he had had a telephone conference with the Ancient Mariner, who had reported only progress with an
exceptionally strong nibble that very day from a retired quack doctor.
And the doctor began scientifically explaining to the princess, as an
exceptionally intelligent woman, the condition of the young princess, and concluded by insisting on the drinking of the waters, which were certainly harmless.
"I had neither the simplicity nor the courage nor the self-possession to be a scoundrel, or an
exceptionally able man.
Still, he carried himself with martial erectness, had his clothes scrupulously brushed, and his trousers tightly strapped; and on the Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, when he came to Tom, he was always inspired with gin and old memories, which gave him an
exceptionally spirited air, as of a superannuated charger who hears the drum.
They were
exceptionally large, some almost as big as hawks.
He would not say whether or not she had attached herself to the sound Low Church School of his father; but she would probably be open to conviction on that point; she was a regular church-goer of simple faith; honest-hearted, receptive, intelligent, graceful to a degree, chaste as a vestal, and, in personal appearance,
exceptionally beautiful.
It was Madame Nilsson's first appearance that winter, and what the daily press had already learned to describe as "an
exceptionally brilliant audience" had gathered to hear her, transported through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the humbler but more convenient "Brown coupe" To come to the Opera in a Brown coupe was almost as honourable a way of arriving as in one's own carriage; and departure by the same means had the immense advantage of enabling one