" A characteristic trait in Miss Mitchell was her aversion to receiving unsolicited advice in regard to her private affairs.

Whereas if the glands were entirely removed, these male traits, peculiar to the rooster, were completely lost.

In either case there is also an infantilism, a retention of the infantile mental traits, a lack of development of the adult mental attitudes and reactions.

Now if Peggy had one trait more striking than another, it was her perfect, simple faith in what people said; irony was a mystery to her; lying, a myth,something on a par with murder.

This prominent trait in his character was a striking illustration of what may be termed the corrective tendency of true religion, by which in advanced life he was enabled to place himself, under the precious influence of the love of Christ, in thorough sympathy with those whose circumstances, in many respects, were so different from, his own.

The essential traits of his later character appeared in his early childhood.

The mixed ensemble of the directly contrasting type, such as the concomitance of testes with feminine secondary sex traits, or of ovaries with masculine sex traits, have been described from time immemorial as freaks.

Dependable trait of human nature.

Mr. Stepel, a German artist, had just left us; and a little trait of Miss Josephine's, that had occurred during his call, brought out this observation from Cousin Letty: "Jo, how could thee let down thy hair so before that man?" Jo laughed.

Noticeable emotivity, a rapidity of perception and volition, impulsiveness, and a tendency to explosive crises of expression are the distinctive psychic traits.

Of the last they met with several curious traits, some of them sufficiently annoying.

At best it is unsafe to search for racial traits in the work of genius; in this instance it would but betray loose thinking.

But in the life of Marshal Turenne we find a more marked trait of manners than this, which might be paralleled in England at this day.

Louise might be attractive and Patsy fascinating; but Beth was the real beauty of the trio, and the most charming trait in her character was her unconsciousness that she excelled in good looks.

While from the standpoint of the species, the criterion of the sex classification of its members will depend upon their capacity to fertilize or to be fertilized, a quality that may, therefore, be spoken of as the primary sex character, a number of other traits have been evolved by sexual selection, the secondary sex traits.

He was looking at the boys in a peculiar way; Max could not decide on the spur of the moment whether it was wonder or shrewdness that he saw there as the predominant trait of the man's features.

These faults, too, may have been the result of her circumstances, rather than native traits of character.

One of its most remarkable traits is a quaint thanksgiving for the commonest things by namenot the less real that it is sometimes even queer.

"Does he only need a bath, or is it more than skin deep?" "Eet iss an hereditary trait, monsieur.

A virgin still, her eyes were tender with the warmheartedness that is such a dominant trait of frontier peoples; but what fire, what passion might burn in them to-morrow!

Then I take the Africans, Australians, American Indians, etc., separately, describing their diverse amorous customs and pointing out everywhere the absence of the altruistic, supersensual traits which constitute the essence of romantic love as distinguished from sensual passion.

You would have made a new ideal of St. John Rivers, who was infinitely the best material of the two, and possibly gone on to your dying day in the belief that his cold and hard soul was only the adamant of the seraph, encouraged in that belief by his real and high principle, a thing that went for sounding brass with that worldly-wise little philosopher, Jane, because it did not act more practically on his inborn traits.

Neither Patsy nor Beth could yet see much to interest them or to admire in his gloomy character; but Myrtle's intuition led her to see beneath the surface, and she knew there were lovable traits in Mr. Jones' nature if he could only be induced to display them.

Juvenile traits and juvenile mind, separate or combined, should always suggest the possibility of the infantiloid constitution of one type of thymocentric also.

We have one great novelist who is gifted with the utmost power of rendering the external traits of our town population; and if he could give us their psychological charactertheir conceptions of life, and their emotionswith the same truth as their idiom and manners, his books would be the greatest contribution art has ever made to the awakening of social sympathies.