861 adjectives to describe qualities

" Respecting Tsz-ch'an, the Master said that he had four of the essential qualities of the 'superior man':in his own private walk he was humble-minded; in serving his superiors he was deferential; in his looking after the material welfare of the people he was generously kind; and in his exaction of public service from the latter he was just.

Seeing that he possessed rare running qualities, I determined if possible to get possession of the animal in some way.

In vain the latter pointed out the enormous expense of opening them, of cutting roads through the mountains, and making the marshes passable, besides the inferior quality of the marble.

And her eyes had that peculiar quality of seeming to see everything, and rest on every face particularly.

One mental quality was indicated by its length, another by its fineness, and others again as it chanced to be greasy, or lank, or curled.

But had there been none of superior quality in Lu, how should this man have attained to this excellence?

Choose a haunch with clear, bright, and thick fat, and the cleft of the hoof smooth and close; the greater quantity of fat there is, the better quality will the meat be.

They were the most pitiful and alarming demonstration of the intellectual and moral quality of British public life at the present time.

Where the soil happens to be composed of the finer qualities of glacial detritus and the water is not in excess, the nearest approach is made by the vegetation to that of the lake-meadow.

* To come from his heroic character, all the amiable qualities of domestic life concentre in this tamed Bellerophon.

Those who have contributed to it are, in literary quality, of many kinds and various degrees of excellence.

" Hetty seemed pleased and grateful to note the frank friendliness of her girlish employers, in whom she recognized the admirable qualities she had personally sacrificed for a life of dissipation.

That is primitive which has the old-fashioned or simple qualities characteristic of the beginning.

The seat of pre eminence among them was filled by a person who possessed in a very uncommon degree these two valuable qualities, so happily conducive to medical utility and medical distinction.

All the known sensible qualities of matter are ultimately referable to immaterial forces,"forces acting from points or volumes;" and whether these points are occupied by positive substance, or "matter" as it is usually conceived, cannot to-day be proved.

Some of the acorns planted by the squirrel of Monmouthshire may be now in a fair way to become, at the end of some centuries, venerable trees; for not the least remarkable quality of oaks is the strong principle of life with which they are endued.

From the eyes of the majority of modern men the brilliant quality of their magic was concealed, until it had been disciplined and refashioned by the severe technique of the short-story.

The results of the experiments and observations can be summed up as follows: if the male individual is castrated before puberty, that is, before the advent of the sexual life, secondary sex qualities do not develop.

I shall but try to mention some of his distinctive qualities and characteristics, illustrated by a few facts.

These pens are of a finer quality, more durable, and cheaper | | than any other Pen In the market.

Probably there is also a subsidiary, but in its context not less prominent meaningnamely, that, while the several poets (such as Chatterton, Sidney, and Lucan) had each a vocal sphere of his own, apposite to his particular poetic quality, the sphere which Keats is now to control had hitherto remained unoccupied because no poet of that special type of genius which it demanded had as yet appeared.

But on the other hand she had few attractive feminine qualities, and no amiable weaknesses.

The reason is that since we sub-consciously know ourselves to be based upon the inherent Law of the Universal Mind we feel, whether we can reason it out or not, that we cannot force the All-producing Mind to work contrary to its own inherent qualities, and therefore we intuitively recognize that we cannot transcend the sort of personality which is normal according to the Law of Universal Mind.

She herself had a classical beauty that did not mark the younger girl; it looked as if Barbara had attractive qualities that were not hers.

The term 'the barbèd fire' represents of course 'the winged reeds,' or arrows: actual reeds or arrows are now transmuted into flame-tipped arrows (conformable to the spiritual or immaterial quality of the Dreams): the fire is to be quenched against the frost of the death-cold cheek of Adonais.

861 adjectives to describe  qualities