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| 4 | 68 | Too, in their tones, intelligent, View more quotes about clear">clear, confident, forceful, it was not difficult to detect a simple, unpretentious aspect of command. |
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| 4 | 65 | No, it was not really so much a matter of volume, or of accent, as of something else. |
| 4 | 66 | Perhaps it was the lack of diffidence, the lack of apology, in their speech, which struck me. |
| 4 | 67 | Perhaps it was this sort of simple, natural assurance which most struck me. |
| 4 | 68 | Too, in their tones, intelligent, clear, confident, forceful, it was not difficult to detect a simple, unpretentious aspect of command. |
| 4 | 69 | Indeed, in the tones of several, perhaps their leaders, there seemed something which might best be characterized as a sort of natural, unassuming imperiousness. |
| 4 | 70 | This made me terribly uncomfortable. |
| 4 | 71 | How dare they speak like that? Who did they think they were? Men? Did they think they were men? That is, of course, "men" in a sense long since prohibited to, or abandoned by, the males with which I was familiar. |