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  • At first, John Quincy objected, saying he preferred to remain at home and prepare for Harvard, but his mother convinced him of the great opportunity inherent in such an experience. In a heartfelt letter of farewell, she would liken the judicious traveler to a river that increases its volume the farther it flows from its source.   (source)
    judicious = wise
  • However, the majority of Americans saw through the deceit and decided judiciously.   (source)
    judiciously = with sound judgment
  • Yet she judiciously classified the personal intelligence that flowed under her plump fingers, and maintained a prudent censorship over her tongue.   (source)
    judiciously = wisely
  • Your hatred of the South—which often is clearly tantamount to expressing hatred, or at least dislike, for me—is appalling in anyone who like yourself is so knowing and judicious in so many other ways.   (source)
    judicious = sensible
  • A judicious selection of people--the conductor, Miss Debenham and MacQueen-will also have seen her.   (source)
  • Not wanton killing, but a judicious slaying.   (source)
    judicious = wise
  • As for myself, I neither have, nor desire to have, a mistress, following in that respect the very judicious example of Athos, who has none any more than I have.   (source)
  • "Your decisions are perfectly judicious, madam," returned Mr. Brocklehurst.   (source)
    judicious = sensible
  • Catherine, also, deemed it judicious to moderate her expressions of pleasure in receiving him; and he gradually established his right to be expected.   (source)
    judicious = wise
  • This would, bien sib-, be most effectively depicted by a judicious scattering of topless models in the background.†   (source)
  • Father judiciously traded these for an extra orang-utan from the Mysore Zoo and a chimpanzee from the Manila Zoo.†   (source)
  • Healed by him, Arabella chooses judiciously this time, and is rewarded by reconciliation with her family and a wedding with the medical prince on "a windy sunlit day in spring."†   (source)
  • " "Well, let's be just a little more judicious with her exposure.†   (source)
  • But desperate times required judicious risk-taking.†   (source)
  • The dome of mirror black nodded judiciously.†   (source)
  • Vic allows himself a judicious sneer and a deep grinding laugh.†   (source)
  • Old Cob said judiciously, taking a long drink.†   (source)
  • Whether or not people see it, I'm still expected to dress'well, judiciously.†   (source)
  • "Not so late," Paul said, judiciously.†   (source)
  • The boys were judicious, taking just one or two pieces and depositing them in the small plastic grocery sacks they carried with them.†   (source)
  • Miss Sessions had smiled upon the piteous little group with a judicious mixture of patronage and mild reproof, and her driver had shaken the lines over the backs of the fat horses preparatory to moving on, when Stoddard's car turned into the street from the corner above.†   (source)
  • Let's put it another way: room in the SHU is a finite resource, and the warden and his staff have to use it judiciously.†   (source)
  • With more judicious taps of my pry bar I enlarged the opening between the veins of solid rock.†   (source)
  • The Red October "Captain Ramius, I think we should slow down," Mancuso said judiciously.†   (source)
  • Their rocket launchers and Kalashnikovs were trained lazily in the direction of a smart company of Pakistani soldiers whose own weapons were judiciously holstered.†   (source)
  • Robyn claims she's judicious.†   (source)
  • Cedric nods at this judicious response and wants to know Zayd's thoughts on other black martyrs.†   (source)
  • Lloyd said judiciously.†   (source)
  • judicious plan†   (source)
  • A careful driver, at least by Burundian standards, judicious, and calm.†   (source)
  • Now if you had been cautious, if you had shined up properly, if you had conducted yourself judiciously, if you had modified your behavior to blend in with the average cadet, then I think you would have had no problem in graduating with your class, Mr. McLean.†   (source)
  • Liv Crawford could speak to these elements and others, and then point out the work invested in the grounds, the mature and various species of tree and shrub, the well-chosen perennials and annuals and judicious use of ornamental stones, the scale and shape and proportion of the entire site a realty dream come true, so that all one need do is simply move right in.†   (source)
  • A judicious gift of fresh, filleted white perch to certain instructors, particularly in subjects where I was having difficulty, greatly improved my grades.†   (source)
  • "I'm inclined to," answered Gabriel judiciously.†   (source)
  • That dog can sleep through any amount of judicious caresses.†   (source)
  • Judiciously.†   (source)
  • There was no flurry and no dawdling as there would have been with any other woman Rufus knew; none of the ceremony that held his grandmother's shopping habits in a kind of stiff embroidery; none of the hurrying, sheepish refusal to be judicious in which men shopped.†   (source)
  • Eugene's touch, his push, now seemed judicious; and he pushed forthrightly to propel the old fellow across the street at the next crossing.†   (source)
  • Chervil paused judiciously, weighing the truth.†   (source)
  • And when it was made plain who Kino was, the doctor grew stern and judicious at the same time.   (source)
    judicious = sensible (showing good judgment)
  • Her lips pursed judiciously.   (source)
    judiciously = in a manner that shows she was using good judgment
  • Oh, for some good spirit to suggest a judicious and satisfactory response!   (source)
    judicious = wise
  • That I should like to have it is certain: whether it would be judicious or wise is another question.   (source)
    judicious = sensible
  • But Miss Nancy was not ashamed of that, for even while she was dressing she narrated to her aunt how she and Priscilla had packed their boxes yesterday, because this morning was baking morning, and since they were leaving home, it was desirable to make a good supply of meat-pies for the kitchen; and as she concluded this judicious remark, she turned to the Miss Gunns that she might not commit the rudeness of not including them in the conversation.   (source)
  • So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.   (source)
    judicious = wise
  • Dunstan Cass, setting off in the raw morning, at the judiciously quiet pace of a man who is obliged to ride to cover on his hunter, had to take his way along the lane which, at its farther extremity, passed by the piece of unenclosed ground called the Stone-pit, where stood the cottage, once a stone-cutter's shed, now for fifteen years inhabited by Silas Marner.   (source)
    judiciously = sensible
  • To my joy, he left us, after giving this judicious counsel, and Hindley stretched himself on the hearthstone.   (source)
    judicious = wise
  • Mr. Pocket being justly celebrated for giving most excellent practical advice, and for having a clear and sound perception of things and a highly judicious mind, I had some notion in my heart-ache of begging him to accept my confidence.   (source)
    judicious = sensible
  • With this persuasion I now answered — "As far as I can see, it would be wiser and more judicious if you were to take to yourself the original at once."   (source)
  • The judicious parent, having nothing to bestow or withhold but his blessing, had handsomely settled that dower upon them after a short struggle, and had informed Mr. Pocket that his wife was "a treasure for a Prince."   (source)
    judicious = wise
  • As his doing the one or the other was a mere question of time, he and Mrs. Pocket had taken Time by the forelock (when, to judge from its length, it would seem to have wanted cutting), and had married without the knowledge of the judicious parent.   (source)
    judicious = sensible
  • A brief address on those occasions would not be mistimed, wherein a judicious instructor would take the opportunity of referring to the sufferings of the primitive Christians; to the torments of martyrs; to the exhortations of our blessed Lord Himself, calling upon His disciples to take up their cross and follow Him;   (source)
    judicious = wise
  • But I'm hoping you'll use that freedom …. judiciously.†   (source)
  • "We must not leap to conclusions," Simon says judiciously.†   (source)
  • But right now, she also felt the checks and balances of their stares as they watched her with Josie, waiting for her to act-well-judiciously.†   (source)
  • I'll help," she said simply, as she drew the excited coffee-pot to a corner of the range and dosed it judiciously with cold water.†   (source)
  • There was inevitably a "natural aristocracy among mankind," those people of virtue and ability who were "the brightest ornaments and the glory" of a nation, "and may always be made the greatest blessing of society, if it be judiciously managed in the constitution."†   (source)
  • There's so much to try but also plenty of time to move forward slowly and deliberately, to taste life judiciously, to savor it.†   (source)
  • Zandra was glad to answer a few judicious questions.†   (source)
  • He goes away at judicious intervals, on business, giving me a chance to miss him.†   (source)
  • For the departure of guests makes a wound that is easily healed in the heart of a judicious host.†   (source)
  • Mancuso was judicious.†   (source)
  • They also issued a limited description of my intentionsa judicious act that allowed Cedric to proceed unfettered, to succeed or fail, as would any other freshman.†   (source)
  • "Wise and judicious observations about his character are those only which will outlive the badges of mourning," she told Mary.†   (source)
  • After an hour of skimming and a few pages of notes, he hears a generator kick on somewhere inside the wall, and the passing sensation is like he's in a greenhouse, with all the potted students in this musty basement, groping just like he is, for the judicious heft of scholars.†   (source)
  • The teacher was dark and pretty, and by a judicious raising or withholding of hands the twins had no worries.†   (source)
  • With her gaze at a judicious distance from the colors she dipped in, Cassie was now for a little time far away, perhaps up in September in college, where, however, tie-and-dye scarves would be out-of-uniform, though something to unfold and show.†   (source)
  • After a long pause Uncle Pio would admit judiciously: "You were good in the scene on the ship."†   (source)
  • The driver squinted judiciously ahead and built up the speed of the truck a little.†   (source)
  • "You could strike him yourself, Mam," said the Kestrel, "judiciously, you know."†   (source)
  • "There are two kinds of storms," Pablo said, heavily and judiciously.†   (source)
  • "Very well," Pablo said and nodded his head heavily and judiciously.†   (source)
  • There were no pheasant-shooting proprietors then, to see that the undergrowth was thinned, and not one thousandth part of the number of the present-day timber merchants who prune judiciously at the few remaining woods.†   (source)
  • Jannadeau, guttural, judiciously reasonable, statistically argumentative, would consult, in all disputed areas, his library—a greasy edition of the World Almanac, three years old, saying, triumphantly, after a moment of dirty thumbing: "Ah—just as I thought: the muni-CIP-al taxation of Milwaukee under De-MO-cratic administration in 1905 was $2.†   (source)
  • He still worked at the planing mill, and in the meantime he had begun to sell a little whiskey, very judiciously, restricting himself to a few discreet customers none of whom knew the others.†   (source)
  • She spoke judiciously to Bea about left-overs.†   (source)
  • He hit the watchman, judiciously, beside the left ear, snatched Angus's wrist, and dragged him away.†   (source)
  • Kennicott said judiciously, "Oh, I don't want to be unjust to him.†   (source)
  • Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.†   (source)
  • "Jacques," said Defarge; "judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it.†   (source)
  • —Artillery is the cause of war being made more judiciously now….†   (source)
  • "My good fellow, you're drunk, you know," said Mr. Brooke, confidentially but not judiciously.†   (source)
  • IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM OLD JACK raked the cinders together with a piece of cardboard and spread them judiciously over the whitening dome of coals.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bry, who had a tendency to grow red and stertorous after luncheon, had been judiciously prevailed upon by Carry Fisher to withdraw to her hotel for an hour's repose; and Selden and his companion were thus left to a stroll propitious to confidences.†   (source)
  • She brought him judiciously to earth.†   (source)
  • It made him shudder to think of spending it in such an uncanny place; so he tried to hurry faster, but he only made the less speed, for he could not now see well enough to choose his steps judiciously; consequently he kept tripping over roots and tangling himself in vines and briers.†   (source)
  • Speaking judiciously, as one related to the church by marriage, Mrs. Warren gave verdict: "I'm sure we're all heartily in accord with Mrs. Kennicott in feeling that wherever genuine poverty is encountered, it is not only noblesse oblige but a joy to fulfil our duty to the less fortunate ones.†   (source)
  • But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself they happily passed the danger; and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her hand they neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and Anne, with some amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs, found herself safely deposited by them at the Cottage.†   (source)
  • He had a large capital of debts, which laid out judiciously, will carry a man along for many years, and on which certain men about town contrive to live a hundred times better than even men with ready money can do.†   (source)
  • He immediately made him out free papers; deposited a sum of money in the hands of the Quaker, to be judiciously used in assisting him to start in life, and left a very sensible and kind letter of advice to the young man.†   (source)
  • Of all this the Mohican was aware, and he had judiciously selected a spot where the river flowed tranquilly to intercept the canoes, in order to make his communication without hazard to those he wished to speak.†   (source)
  • Kutuzov, without looking at Wolzogen, gave directions for the order to be written out which the former commander in chief, to avoid personal responsibility, very judiciously wished to receive.†   (source)
  • When had he ever turned aside himself—or ever had the chance to do it, if a peasant saw him or any other noble knight in time to judiciously save him the trouble?†   (source)
  • That point is this: The Sperm Whale is in some cases sufficiently powerful, knowing, and judiciously malicious, as with direct aforethought to stave in, utterly destroy, and sink a large ship; and what is more, the Sperm Whale HAS done it.†   (source)
  • Surely the goods of this world, it occurred in an accidental way to Bishop to remark, could scarcely be directed into happier channels than when they accumulated under the magic touch of the wise and sagacious, who, while they knew the just value of riches (Bishop tried here to look as if he were rather poor himself), were aware of their importance, judiciously governed and rightly distributed, to the welfare of our brethren at large.†   (source)
  • The choice morsel had been judiciously separated from the adjoining and less worthy parts of the beast, and, enveloped in the hairy coating provided by nature, it had duly undergone the heat of the customary subterraneous oven, and was now laid before its proprietors in all the culinary glory of the prairies.†   (source)
  • "Bless me!" said Mr. Deane, judiciously introducing a new idea, "why, now I come to think of it, somebody said Wakem was going to send his son—the deformed lad—to a clergyman, didn't they, Susan?"†   (source)
  • Petitions came in to President Lincoln from distinguished citizens and organizations, strongly urging a comprehensive and unified plan of dealing with the freedmen, under a bureau which should be "charged with the study of plans and execution of measures for easily guiding, and in every way judiciously and humanely aiding, the passage of our emancipated and yet to be emancipated blacks from the old condition of forced labor to their new state of voluntary industry."†   (source)
  • Mr. Lippet allowed this conciliatory offering to be accepted, and judiciously paused, while the spirit of peace was exercising its influence over the two; but the Judge interposed his authority.†   (source)
  • And as for going as cook,—though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board—yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls;—though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.†   (source)
  • As Major Duncan manifested some impatience of manner, Muir had too much tact to delay the sports any longer with his discursive remarks, but judiciously prepared himself for the next appeal.†   (source)
  • There Amelia began to take baths and get what good she could from them, and though scores of people of Becky's acquaintance passed her and cut her, yet Mrs. Osborne, who walked about with her, and who knew nobody, was not aware of the treatment experienced by the friend whom she had chosen so judiciously as a companion; indeed, Becky never thought fit to tell her what was passing under her innocent eyes.†   (source)
  • Your aunt Norris has always been an advocate, and very judiciously, for young people's being brought up without unnecessary indulgences; but there should be moderation in everything.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Troy had added a few touches to his ordinary make-up for the character, the more effectually to disguise himself, and though he had felt faint qualms on first entering, the metamorphosis effected by judiciously "lining" his face with a wire rendered him safe from the eyes of Bathsheba and her men.†   (source)
  • The government of an individual, supposing an equality of instruction on either side, is more consistent, more persevering, and more accurate than that of a multitude, and it is much better qualified judiciously to discriminate the characters of the men it employs.†   (source)
  • Bessy Cranage, in her neatest cap and frock, was crying, though she did not exactly know why; for, as her cousin Wiry Ben, who stood near her, judiciously suggested, Dinah was not going away, and if Bessy was in low spirits, the best thing for her to do was to follow Dinah's example and marry an honest fellow who was ready to have her.†   (source)
  • All through their girlhood she had felt that she could act on her sister by a word judiciously placed—by opening a little window for the daylight of her own understanding to enter among the strange colored lamps by which Dodo habitually saw.†   (source)
  • He had still to undergo that hour of pillory which Master Florian Barbedienne had so judiciously added to the sentence of Messire Robert d'Estouteville; all to the greater glory of the old physiological and psychological play upon words of Jean de Cumène, ~Surdus absurdus~: a deaf man is absurd.†   (source)
  • Not, surely, where the Poet speaks through the mouths of his characters: it cannot be necessary here, either for elevation of style, or any of its supposed ornaments: for, if the Poet's subject be judiciously chosen, it will naturally, and upon fit occasion, lead him to passions the language of which, if selected truly and judiciously, must necessarily be dignified and variegated, and alive with metaphors and figures.†   (source)
  • Pope says, judiciously: "Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;" farther recommending to us "To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence."†   (source)
  • In the dormitories I observed loopholes, at certain distances all along just under the ceiling, which I thought judiciously placed for change of air.†   (source)
  • The side of the quadrangle, in which she supposed the guilty scene to be acting, being, according to her belief, just opposite her own, it struck her that, if judiciously watched, some rays of light from the general's lamp might glimmer through the lower windows, as he passed to the prison of his wife; and, twice before she stepped into bed, she stole gently from her room to the corresponding window in the gallery, to see if it appeared; but all abroad was dark, and it must yet be too…†   (source)
  • But as it was her determination to subdue it, and to prevent herself from appearing to suffer more than what all her family suffered on his going away, she did not adopt the method so judiciously employed by Marianne, on a similar occasion, to augment and fix her sorrow, by seeking silence, solitude and idleness.†   (source)
  • It only shows what effect judicious advice can have, properly delivered at the right moment.†   (source)
  • He was of broad, stocky build, carrying a judicious big ball of a head, cut close.†   (source)
  • She spoke with the old stern judiciousness, but in a moment her face began to work and she burst into tears.†   (source)
  • Instead of the Creator adored by its creature, you soon have merely a leader acclaimed by a partisan, and finally a distinguished character approved by a judicious historian.†   (source)
  • No, Pa, I'm no tattletale like Suellen," she assured him, standing off to view his rearranged attire with a judicious air.†   (source)
  • He put on a judicious head, and things, no matter how they ran, had to be collared and brought to a standstill when he was ready to give out.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it would seem to Hightower that he would actually hale Byron into the house by a judicious application of pure breath, as though Byron wore a sail.†   (source)
  • …and wild English fern in its natural fronds; through them ran a dozen streams that counterfeited springs, and round them sported fantastic tropical animals, camels and camelopards and an ebullient lion, all vomiting water; on the rocks, to the height of the pediment, stood an Egyptian obelisk of red sandstone—but, by some odd chance, for the thing was far beyond me, I brought it off and, by judicious omissions and some stylish tricks, produced a very passable echo of Piranesi.†   (source)
  • But I'll tell you something about him, W. O.," he continued after a moment, with calm but boding judiciousness.†   (source)
  • He took Brown because Brown was a stranger and had a certain cheerful and unscrupulous readiness about him, and not overmuch personal courage, knowing that in the hands of a judicious man, a coward within his own limitations can be made fairly useful to anyone except himself.†   (source)
  • All this showed his judicious foresight, his faith in the future.†   (source)
  • By judicious management and improvement, it might be made to pay more.†   (source)
  • They are so unbusinesslike, we could make them do anything by judicious management.†   (source)
  • A little judicious severity, perhaps….†   (source)
  • But Ivan did not follow this judicious advice and did not take to his bed to be nursed.†   (source)
  • 'It was not judicious, sir, I am willing to admit,' said Mr. Mell.†   (source)
  • The judicious historian abstains from narrating precisely what ensued.†   (source)
  • You eat and drink, and know you are acting in the most reasonable, most judicious manner.†   (source)
  • It also offered an additional probability of a judicious choice.†   (source)
  • I don't make mistakes about such things; I'm a very judicious animal.†   (source)
  • In fact, he was even a teetotaler sometimes —when it was judicious to be one.†   (source)
  • The clamour of Esther was anticipated by the judicious trapper.†   (source)
  • David, I wish to God I had had a judicious father these last twenty years!'†   (source)
  • He did not answer immediately, for he had to be judicious and not truthful.†   (source)
  • She was too sincere, too interested in her judicious companion.†   (source)
  • The democracy in New England consequently makes a more judicious choice than it does elsewhere.†   (source)
  • On second thoughts Jude felt that he could not go up and address him; but he was sufficiently influenced by the incident to think what a wise thing it would be for him to state his difficulties by letter to some of the best and most judicious of these old masters, and obtain their advice.†   (source)
  • The room looked at him like an alien countenance composed into a polite grimace; and he perceived that it had been ruthlessly "tidied," and prepared, by a judicious distribution of ash-trays and cedar-wood boxes, for the gentlemen to smoke in.†   (source)
  • He was prompted thereto by the circumstance that he took that soldier to be a judicious person, thoughtful, and not altogether incapable of grappling with a difficult case unprecedented in his prior experience.†   (source)
  • In its beginnings, purest piety, the epitome of judicious concern—there should be no thought of contesting that.†   (source)
  • Hugo had seen enough—his enemy was captured and the law would get him, now—so he slipped away, jubilant and chuckling, and wended campwards, framing a judicious version of the matter to give to the Ruffler's crew as he strode along.†   (source)
  • On his way home he was planning to experiment on the Shiga dysentery bacillus with phage (as henceforth he called the X Principle), planning to volley questions and criticisms at D'Herelle, hoping that Tubbs would not discharge him for a while, and expanding with relief that he would not have to do his absurd premature paper on phage, that he could be lewd and soft-collared and easy, not judicious and spied-on and weighty.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, if in view of recent events prompt action should be taken at the first palpable sign of recurring insubordination, for all that, not judicious would it be, he thought, to keep the idea of lingering disaffection alive by undue forwardness in crediting an informer, even if his own subordinate, and charged among other things with police surveillance of the crew.†   (source)
  • Half-an-hour's pause was not long, it is true; but much might be done in it by a judicious grouping of incidents, above all, if the weather were fine.†   (source)
  • …opprobrium which we have had to combat, not without great difficulty, nor with entire success--instead of the difficulties which now throng the path to a satisfactory settlement of all our unsettled questions with Mexico--Texas might, by a more judicious and conciliatory diplomacy, have been as securely in the Union as she is now--her boundaries defined--California probably ours--and Mexico and ourselves united by closer ties than ever; of mutual friendship and mutual support in…†   (source)
  • Ralph had listened attentively to this judicious report, by which his interest in the subject of it was not impaired.†   (source)
  • Individuals whose affairs have reached an utterly desperate crisis almost invariably keep themselves alive with hopes, so much the more airily magnificent as they have the less of solid matter within their grasp whereof to mould any judicious and moderate expectation of good.†   (source)
  • An open spot on a mountain side, where a wide look can be had at the heavens and the 'arth, is a most judicious place for a man to get a just idee of the power of the Manitou, and of his own littleness.†   (source)
  • The rest of the money--a considerable sum for me, I decided to borrow from Anton Antonitch Syetotchkin, my immediate superior, an unassuming person, though grave and judicious.†   (source)
  • Owing to the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet, the pauses between the performances are very short, the singers in the opera having time to repose themselves and change their costume, when necessary, while the dancers are executing their pirouettes and exhibiting their graceful steps.†   (source)
  • 'A very judicious arrangement,' observed Ralph with a sneer, 'if your husband will keep within it, ma'am—as no doubt he will.'†   (source)
  • Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful.†   (source)
  • The sex of the two male characters was briefly indicated to every judicious spectator, by their shorter robes, and by the cap which they wore on their heads; while the two female characters, less briefly clad, were covered with hoods.†   (source)
  • It was easy to decide that she was still too young; and Jane remained with them, sharing, as another daughter, in all the rational pleasures of an elegant society, and a judicious mixture of home and amusement, with only the drawback of the future, the sobering suggestions of her own good understanding to remind her that all this might soon be over.†   (source)
  • However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency, and publicity to their words.†   (source)
  • She had previously determined how far she would proceed, on any application of the sort; and it would be safer for both, to have the judicious law of her own brain laid down with speed.†   (source)
  • That lady, who had long watched his career with compassion, gave him the most judicious advice, to give up his dissipated life, his unseemly love-affair, the waste of his youth and vigor in pot-house debauchery, and to set off to Siberia to the gold-mines: 'that would be an outlet for your turbulent energies, your romantic character, your thirst for adventure.'†   (source)
  • "That's judicious and womanly, Hist.†   (source)
  • Now, a judicious selection from these with the least possible delay, and the burying of them, or otherwise getting of them out of harm's way, is within the power (without loss of precious time) of scarcely any one but myself, if any one.†   (source)
  • And at last when Ahab was sliding by the vessel, so near as plainly to distinguish Starbuck's face as he leaned over the rail, he hailed him to turn the vessel about, and follow him, not too swiftly, at a judicious interval.†   (source)
  • "You see," said old Osborne to George, "what comes of merit, and industry, and judicious speculations, and that.†   (source)
  • She laughed because she was disappointed; and though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not winning back her heart.†   (source)
  • But he told Mr. Tulliver several stories about "Swing" and incendiarism, and asked his advice about feeding pigs in so thoroughly secular and judicious a manner, with so much polished glibness of tongue, that the miller thought, here was the very thing he wanted for Tom.†   (source)
  • "I won't tell 'em anything about your keeping silence; go on with the piece and say nothing, doing what you can by a judicious wink now and then, and a few indomitable nods in the heroic places, you know.†   (source)
  • These are laws that were loudly called for by judicious men; nor do I despair of getting an act to make the unlawful felling of timber a criminal offence.†   (source)
  • Such citizens of that village as were of a thoughtful and judicious temperament did not insure against fire; they insured against the fire company.†   (source)
  • Jasper now sprang to the helm himself and, by judicious and careful handling, he got so near his chase that it was secured by a boat-hook.†   (source)
  • I am not about to be hipped again, David; but I tell you, my good fellow, once more, that it would have been well for me (and for more than me) if I had had a steadfast and judicious father!'†   (source)
  • In making this choice, he had not been as much governed by a clear and judicious view of the merits of the individual, perhaps, as by his own likings; still no one knew the Pathfinder so intimately as himself without always conceding to the honest guide a high place in his esteem on account of these very virtues.†   (source)
  • A book of family sermons, one of which Sir Pitt was in the habit of administering to his family on Sunday mornings, lay ready on the study table, and awaiting his judicious selection.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXIII Madame Merle, who had come to Florence on Mrs. Touchett's arrival at the invitation of this lady—Mrs. Touchett offering her for a month the hospitality of Palazzo Crescentini—the judicious Madame Merle spoke to Isabel afresh about Gilbert Osmond and expressed the hope she might know him; making, however, no such point of the matter as we have seen her do in recommending the girl herself to Mr. Osmond's attention.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pullet took off her cap, displaying the brown silk scalp with a jutting promontory of curls which was common to the more mature and judicious women of those times, and placing the bonnet on her head, turned slowly round, like a draper's lay-figure, that Mrs. Tulliver might miss no point of view.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 6 "Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God', he says, with solemn air.†   (source)
  • It was my plan to send you to that school; for when your father first mentioned the thing, I wrote a private letter for advice to a judicious friend in the city, who recommended the very school you went to.†   (source)
  • "You see we are quite good friends already," Becky said to Emmy, who now re-entered; and it must be owned that Mrs. Osborne had introduced a most judicious and amiable companion into her house.†   (source)
  • Will did not half like it, but managed to laugh: and Mr. Casaubon, while he felt some disgust at the artist's German accent, began to entertain a little respect for his judicious severity.†   (source)
  • "There, sargeant, dear," said the landlady, after she thought the veteran had got the logs arranged in the most judicious manner, "give over poking, for it's no good ye'll be doing, now that they burn so convaniently.†   (source)
  • This irresistible authority is a constant fact, and its judicious exercise is an accidental occurrence.†   (source)
  • From being the mere gentleman's residence, it becomes, by judicious improvement, the residence of a man of education, taste, modern manners, good connexions.†   (source)
  • The meeting of a great political Convention (for there are Conventions of all kinds), which may frequently become a necessary measure, is always a serious occurrence, even in America, and one which is never looked forward to, by the judicious friends of the country, without alarm.†   (source)
  • This was not judicious behavior.†   (source)
  • As this corps was composed of volunteers, and was commanded by a man who had passed the first five-and-thirty years of his life in camps and garrisons, it was the non-parallel of military science in that country, and was confidently pronounced by the judicious part of the Templeton community, to be equal in skill and appearance to any troops in the known world; in physical endowments they were, certainly, much superior!†   (source)
  • When I think of her great attachment to you, indeed, and the whole of her judicious, upright conduct as a sister, she appears a very different creature, capable of everything noble, and I am ready to blame myself for a too harsh construction of a playful manner.†   (source)
  • 'Duke is a judicious man after all, and knows human nature thoroughly, I'm much obliged to him," continued Richard, using the skirt of his coat unconsciously to wipe his eyes; "though I would do as much for him any day, as he shall see, if I have an opportunity to perform any of the duties of my office on him.†   (source)
  • The cool and judicious Joshua Rigg had not allowed his parent to perceive that Stone Court was anything less than the chief good in his estimation, and he had certainly wished to call it his own.†   (source)
  • He knew her to be very timid, and exceedingly nervous; and thought it not improbable that her mind might be in such a state as a little time, a little pressing, a little patience, and a little impatience, a judicious mixture of all on the lover's side, might work their usual effect on.†   (source)
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