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The sound of a bugle came from the further end of the ship, and immediately men were scampering along the deck beneath as some order or other was being obeyed with that precision that characterizes the "handy man.

From her wonderful tales Scott developed that intense love of Scottish history and tradition which characterizes all his work.

But he had an almost mystic force of severity, and those enormous squanderings of wealth, that facile assumption of liabilities that characterized this period of the War, must have doubtless produced in him a sense of infinite disgust.

There is something almost lurid in the sharpness of contrast with which the wonderful height of humanity attained by Hellas is set off against the fierce barbarism which characterized the relations of its cities to one another.

It is inevitable, in describing him, to characterize his life first by its quantity.

Their language was bold and irritating; they characterized the conduct of the parliament as a violation of the league and covenant; and they openly charged the houses with suffering themselves to be controlled by a body, which owed its origin and its subsistence to their authority.

There was none of that heavy-tongued enunciation which characterizes even the best-educated colored people of the South.

Chaucer freed himself from all the affectations and extravagances and artificiality which characterized the poetry of the Middle Ages.

He was the especial foe of all the heresies which characterized the age.

Presently the door opened, and Etta came into the room with the indomitable assurance which characterized her movements and earned for her a host of feminine enemies.

There is always a special name for the special symptom or set of symptoms which characterized the last days.

There can be no doubt that a great deal of restlessness and misgiving characterizes the minds of to-day in regard to all questions of religion.

Blandness of speech and manners was his distinguishing outward peculiarity; and this seems to characterize his nation,whether learned from him, or whether an inborn national peculiarity, I do not know.

In a journey of this sort one gets a very superficial view of the peculiarities, physical and social, which characterize the different portions of our country; and in this there is nothing to complain of, since the knowledge gained in a vacation-journey cannot well be expected to be thorough or profound.

At the same time, the wisdom and decision which have characterized your past Administration assure us that no illusory professions will seduce you into any abandonment of the rights which belong to the United States as a free and independent nation.

It peculiarly characterized the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The scanty population of the rest of the country, endowed with that fidelity to their ancient customs which characterizes the Saxon race, showed no tendency to mix with foreigner, rarely figured in their ranks, and seemed to revolt from the southern refinement which was so little in harmony with their manners and ways of life.

With a view of maintaining the harmony and tranquillity so dear to all, we should abstain from the introduction of those exciting topics of a sectional character which have hitherto produced painful apprehensions in the public mind; and I repeat the solemn warning of the first and most illustrious of my predecessors against furnishing "any ground for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations.

Is there in this day and generation a spirit of lawlessness greater or different than that that has always characterized human society?

It relieved him, also, of the necessity for that constant evasion and watchfulness which had characterized his efforts as a witness in other cases.

He was true to his promise to help her; (he never made a promise that he did not honestly try to keep;) and he applied himself to the by no means thankless task with the good-humored directness and energy that characterized all his actions.

"What do you make of this?" The question was put in the same sharp, business-like tone which had characterized his utterances in the library.

Blackwood's Magazine called same of the lyrics "drivel," and Carlyle characterized the aesthetic verse as "lollipops."

is not marked by great events or great passions, except the unrelenting and bitter animosity of the Royalists to everything which characterized the Revolution or the military ascendency of Napoleon.

Relying upon the justice of our views in relation to the points committed to negotiation and the reciprocal good feeling which characterizes our intercourse with those nations, we have the best reason to hope for a satisfactory adjustment of existing differences.

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