Yet if He did, promptly and completely, break their chains and consummate their emancipation, then the fact that grace is a progressive and gradual experience does not forbid us to reckon ourselves dead unto sin.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Of course he interpreted this as a piece of consummate cunning; he had no other measure for her capacity than would have been suited to his own.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
It was easy to see, too, that the theme was not one into which she stumbled by an accident; she knew every event of the Great Revolution, and used the knowledge with consummate skill, and, but for one slip, with consummate temper also.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever