1 She had heard Ashley say that the South was being treated as a conquered province and that vindictiveness was the dominant policy of the conquerors.
2 It was the dominant animal failing to remember in the supreme moments the forceful causes of various superficial qualities.
3 Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women.
4 He was generous to his friends and equals, but proud, dominant, overbearing, to inferiors, and utterly unmerciful to whatever set itself up against him.
5 The psychologist tells us of a state, in which the affections and images of the mind become so dominant and overpowering, that they press into their service the outward imagining.
6 If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one.
7 I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a dominant spirit asserted itself.
8 Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.
9 For the moment that was the dominant thought.
10 He was a gentleman, and he hated him for that, hated him through some curious race-instinct for which he could not account, and which for that reason was all the more dominant within him.
11 His dominant intellectual passion was for science.
12 For a moment she stood there, eminent, dominant, on the soap box with the blue and sailing clouds behind her.
13 He paused, eminent, dominant, glaring from his pedestal.
14 The one, austere, high-nosed, eagle-eyed, and dominant, was none other than the illustrious Lord Bellinger, twice Premier of Britain.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 15 It was an unhappy life that I lived; and its one dominant anxiety, towering over all its other anxieties, like a high mountain above a range of mountains, never disappeared from my view.