His language on the first occasion on which he made his voice heard in the Assembly was eminently characteristic of him, so manifestly was it directed to the attainment of his own objectthat of making himself necessary to the court, and obtaining either office or some pension which might enable him to live, since his own resources had long been exhausted by his extravagance.

So much for the woman herself, her selfish spirit, her vile career; but as Cleopatra is one of the best known and most striking examples of a Pagan woman, with qualities and in circumstances peculiarly characteristic of Paganism, I must make a few remarks on these points.

The modern Romans are merged in the general name of Italians, who, with the exception of macaroni, have no specially characteristic article of food. 216.

Your advice is singularly characteristic, and, of course, quite impossible, alas!Carry her off, indeed!

" "Thank you," said Betty demurely, but with a sparkle of fun in her liquid eyes as she turned them upon Gulian, secretly amused at this curiously characteristic apology.

The national use of this privilege is now generally considered, by social philosophers, to be the foundation of the love of "fair play," so universally characteristic of the English.

Her Majesty ascended the throne on the 20th of June 1837, and on the 29th the Times published a delightfully characteristic article against the Whig Ministers, "into whose hands the all but infant and helpless Queen has been compelled by her unhappy condition to deliver up herself and her indignant people."

It is wonderfully characteristic of the French that they have accepted this feature of their disaster as they have accepted the restwith courage, and that they have at once gone to work to remove all the German "hall-marks" as quickly as possibleand now have gone back to their fields in the same spirit.

The Quadrupeds are, perhaps, the most successfulthe group of Hare-Indian Dogs, for instance, is exquisitely characteristic.

In 1844 Mulder endeavoured to demonstrate that a peculiar substance, which he called "protein," was essentially characteristic of living matter.

Entering, not as usual through the grounds and the peristyle, but by the vestibule and my own chamber, and hidden by my half-open window, I overheard an exceedingly characteristic discussion on the incident of the morning.

The moral confusion in the idea was surely admirably characteristic of the general who had just accomplished a successful coup d'état, the condemnation of which he would fancy that he read in the face of every honest man he met, and which he would therefore be forever indirectly palliating.]

This language is finely characteristic of the drama.

They are set to a little plaintive air, very happily characteristic of the words.

An abstract argument, or logical deduction (had they been capable of supplying it), would operate but faintly upon intellects rendered even more obtuse by the rude nature of their customary employments; while, on the other hand, an apposite story would arouse attention and stimulate that blind and unenquiring devotion which is so remarkably characteristic of the Middle Ages.

Then he had recourse to an expedient that was strictly characteristic of the man.

This reserve is unquestionably characteristic of the nation; to what is it owing!modesty?

To the others his having gone like that seemed natural enough,likably characteristic of him, at any rate.

"Unity in Diversity," the motto adopted by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, is a fitting expression of the broad conceptions she brought into club life; indeed, her success in bringing women of unequal social position and essentially different callings, into harmonious relationship and unity of purpose was markedly characteristic.

The sense of what might be lost was revealed to you at every turn in scenes once merely characteristic of a whole, each with an appeal of its own now; in the types of people who, by their conduct in this hour of trial, showed that Spartan hearts might beat in Paris-the Spartan hearts of the mass of everyday, workaday Parisians.

This accounts for that obviously characteristic want of clearly defined thought; in fact, they lack the die that stamps their thoughts, they have no clear thought of their own; in place of it we find an indefinite, obscure interweaving of words, current phrases, worn-out terms of speech, and fashionable expressions.

"I'll bet you can't," said Saltash, with a twist of the eyebrows that was oddly characteristic of him.

At such times, though his flow of language does not forsake him, he is without that cheerful aspect and spontaneous expression ordinarily so characteristic.

We therefore close this section of our article with a bit of prose and a bit of poetry, among Hood's "last things,"personally and pathetically characteristic of his nature and his genius.

The portrait is not more happy in the comprehension of character than in the rendering of it, and is as masterly technically as it is grandly characteristic.