" This sobriquet they conferred upon him partly on account of the fact that he usually received his wounds while leaving their immediate vicinity, and partly because of a peculiar characteristic of the kind of cards he used.

Youth, like the extremity of age, had effaced the strongly marked characteristics of middle life, and mutually assimilated them all.

This is one of the striking characteristics of the new Education Bill.

Intellectually "the essential characteristic of instruction is the treatment of individual things in their relationships"; morally, the idea of unity is that we are all members one of another.

A clergyman, who knew perhaps more of her inner life than any one else, in a letter to the writer, says, "The two most prominent characteristics of the last five and a half years of her life seemed to me to be her unreserved consecration and her absolute confidence in the Lord and His Word."

Yet she had certain mental characteristics which were entirely unlike most women.

She thought well to begin the story by giving some explanatory 'Extracts from a Traveler's Journal' relative to Italian customs, but afterward she depended entirely on me for all points concerning distinctive national characteristics and the general Italian atmosphere.

That which was, after all, the most remarkable characteristic of these wars might be guessed from this fact about the fashions.

The principal characteristic of the knightly service, and one which separates it most decidedly from the Roman militia, was its freedom of action.

The contrast of one class with the other is visible even in external characteristics.

His recent biographers, Captain Mahan and Professor Laughton, feel constrained to tell us over and over again that Nelson's predominant characteristic was not mere 'headlong valour and instinct for fighting'; that he was not the man 'to run needless and useless risks' in battle.

Darwin has proved that the dominant characteristic of male animals is vanity; and what is to become of that if women show that they can do without us?

It has, in fact, developed in direct proportion to and side by side with the fundamental, differentiating vertebrate characteristics.

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And let this be said: if Russia should ever cease to be Russia, if she ever loses those grand national characteristics which make her so different from the West, and therefore so difficult for us Westerns to understand, the world as a whole will be infinitely the poorer for that loss.

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Or the Germans, in many ways resembling the last mentioned group, only richer and more varied in their culture and racial characteristics!

End rime is uncommon, but we must beware of thinking that there is no rhythm, for that is a pronounced characteristic.

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There are some curious varieties of the domestic duck, which only appear interesting from their singularity, for there does not seem to be anything of use or value in the unusual characteristics which distinguish them; thus, the bow-bill duck, as shown in the engraving, called by some writers the hook-bill, is remarkable for the peculiarly strange distortion of its beak, and the tuft on the top of its head.

Who-d'-y'-lend-'t-to?" It is an intellectual characteristic of the more advanced degrees of the clove-trance, that, while the tranced individual can perceive objects, even to occasional duplexity, and hear remarks more or less distinctly, neither objects nor remarks are positively associated by him with any perspicuous idea.

It is hence permissible to think of the thyroid as a dictator of evolution, to crown it as the vertebrate gland par excellence, and to call the typical vertebrate brand marks secondary thyroid characteristics in precisely the sense of Darwin classing the horns of cattle as secondary sexual characteristics.

Agassiz himself could not have hit off better the salient characteristics of the little creature in question.

" The psychological characteristics of a crowd are receiving attention at the hands of a French philosopher.

He more uniformly excels in subtle humor, which is his next most conspicuous characteristic.