It is a race which has shown a rare capacity for absorbing slightly foreign elements and moulding them into conformity with a political type that was first wrought out through centuries of effort on British soil; and this capacity it has shown perhaps in a heightened degree in the peculiar circumstances in which it has been placed in America.

He was of the type that fought and sailed and ruled.

From the little that is known of their intimacy, it would seem that they were merely good comradesgood comrades of the type that might bite or scratch at any moment.

Again, the novel gave a much more prominent position to that important class of human beings who do the most of the world's work,a type that the romance had been inclined to neglect.

The problem has now changed, the conditions affecting its solution have also changed, and it is no discredit to the original type that it now seems to have had its day, and that it must give way to other forms more perfectly expressing the spirit of the present age, and the means available for the solution of present-day problems in the art of naval war.

Only at first sightfor, if like Beatrice, you were the possessor of a face so uncommon in type that your lover might, with little fear of disproof, declare, at all events in England, that there was none other like it, you might grow superstitious as you looked at an anticipation so creepily identical, and conceive strange fancies of re-incarnation.

The girl was of our best patrician typethe type that may know little, think little, say little, and generally amount to little, and yet carry its negative qualities with so used an air of polite society as to raise them by sheer force to the dignity of positive virtues.

A strain of pure white was bred by James Hinks, a well-known dog-dealer of Birmingham, and it is no doubt to Hinks that we are indebted for the elegant Bull-terrier of the type that we know to-day.

The young woman's face was one of a type that was too familiar to be pleasant.

Most expressions upon the subject, however, have been characterized by a conscious or unconscious evasion of some of the main elements of the problem involved in the formation of a future American race, or, to put it perhaps more correctly, a future ethnic type that shall inhabit the northern part of the western continent.

The scenery is of that quiet and homely type that belongs so exclusively to the chalk and limestone streams of the south of England.

He was dining vis-à-vis with a young woman chiefly remarkable for a profusion of yellow hair and a blazing diamond in the lobe of each ear,a plump, blond, vivacious person of a type that Stella, even with her limited experience, found herself instantly classifying.

A detective story of the lurid type that lulls us to sleep.

It was true that the old man scarcely represented the usual worthless, criminal type that took to vagabondage.

She's so true to type that you can hardly believe in her existence.

It was, moreover, with Christianity of this primitive type that the arts came first into collision.

She was very trim and cool-looking in her white duck; moreover, she was of the type that looks exceedingly attractive in evening dressat least, that was Deppingham's innermost reflection.

The gardens, too, are of the beautiful type that one learns to expect in conjunction with so lovely a dwelling, while flowering creepers on the towers and on the gabled walls complete an ideal picture of all that is loveliest in an old English mansion.

In justice to Dolores I should make it clear that she was not of the slatternly, dirty, lazy, half-breed type that pigs in a peignoir from twelve to twelve and snores again from midnight to midday.

An extraordinarily well-bred woman, a sort of misty Du Maurier woman, of a type that had become almost non-existent, if ever it had existed in its perfection at all.

He was the forerunner of a type that was to develop markedly in New England, tall, thin, dry-lipped, critical, shrewd and tenacious to the last degree.

He's just the type that the mesa people like.

Brewster was of the type that would kill a man in a quarrel and ride home, depending on his nerve and lack of evidence to escape punishment.

It belongs to the type that is characterised by double windows in the belfry, but is more elaborate than most of its compeers.

She treated us all as though she were conferring the honor, not receiving it, and she is by no means a type that promises domestic tranquillity for Tristram.