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Coldstream would have looked on impavidly, without allowing a grain of powder to be disturbed by the calamity.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Coldstream would have looked on impavidly, without allowing a grain of powder to be disturbed by the calamity.

The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Laura, instead of kissing Pen, had taken her scissors and snipped off his head -- Calverly and Coldstream would have looked on impavidly, without allowing a grain of powder to be disturbed by the calamity.

The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

That Gautier always or often maintained himself at this pitch, either of what we may call power of projecting live personages or of exhibition of great passions, it would be idle and uncritical to contend; that he did so here, and thereby put himself at once and for ever on the higher, nay, highest level of literature, I do, after fifty years 'study of the thing and of endless other things, impenitently and impavidly affirm.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889