On the north sides of ridges the boles are more slender, and the ground is mostly occupied by an underbrush of hazel, ceanothus, and flowering dogwood, but never so densely as to prevent the traveler from sauntering where he will; while the crowning branches are never impenetrable to the rays of the sun, and never so interblended as to lose their individuality.

Thus a perfect confidence was established, and ever subsisted between the mother and daughter; and the natural thoughtfulness of spirit, and energy of purpose, that belonged to Edith, were unchecked, and she was allowed to possess an individuality of character that is, unhappily, too often repressed and destroyed in these present days of high civilization and uniformity of education.

The complexion was of a dazzling fairness, the hair light, but the eyes dark, which gave individuality to the face.

You asserted your own individuality in a fashion that rather surprised me.

Through the engine-room ventilators a long jingle of the telegraph was heard; and directly the Sybarite's pulses began to beat in quicker tempo, while darker volutes of smoke rolled in dense volume from her funnel and streamed away astern, resting low and preserving their individuality as long as visible, like a streak of oxidization on a field of frosted silver.

When, for example, iron-bound cults (they are no less than this) meet as "capital" and as "labour," both merge the individuality of their members in a thing which has no real or necessary existence but is an artificial creation of thought operating under the dominion of ephemeral, almost accidental conditions.

In such an analysis all that constitutes the individuality, the life, the charm of a great writer, must escape.

Over every section of remote India, in the South Sea, in the Indian Archipelago, in the states of South America, the Chinese seem destined, in time, either to supplant every other element, or to found a mixed race upon which to stamp their individuality.

If a child is to have time and opportunity to develop his individuality he must not be hampered by having to be conscious of things that belong to the subconscious region.

But all words that convey distinct ideas, and rightly retain their individuality, ought to be taken separately in parsing.

They have no literary style, for style is individuality and characterthe style is the man, and grammar tends to obliterate individuality.

The Easternor Greek ChristianChurch, now known as the Holy Orthodox, Catholic, Apostolic, Oriental Church, first assumed individuality at Ephesus, and in the catechetical school of Alexandria, which flourished after A.D. 180.

It's every stone and beam had become familiar and, as he looked, seemed to find an individuality of its own, the very lattices seemed to look back at him, like so many wistful eyes.

Lady Mary had recovered her individuality; the serene consciousness of a power within herself to live up to the ideal her lover had conceived of her.

Thus hollow oak-trees and willows are often seen with the whole wood decayed and gone; and yet the few remaining branches flourish with vigour; but in respect to the male and female parts of a flower, they do not destroy its individuality any more than the number of paps of a sow, or the number of her cotyledons, each of which includes one of her young.

They decided to assume the same independence as the Pre-Raphaelite artists, who expressed their individuality in their own way.

You shall never have the slightest chance of self-assertion, of impressing your own individuality upon the world?

If it was to benefit the working woman in the same way in which it benefited the working man, by making individuality a thing to be considered; if it was to give the woman taxpayer certain rights which would put her on a par with the man taxpayer, a thousand times more it was to benefit all women by removing them from the class of the unconsidered, the superfluous, and the negligible.

He is, as it were, the personification, the monogram, of the whole people, which attains an individuality in him.

People asked him down to paint a favorite lime or silver birch, for he caught the individuality of a tree as some catch the individuality of a horse.

In the biological sciences of the eighteenth century, commonsense struggled hard to ignore individuality in shells and plants and animals.

They never surrender their individuality.

In the meantime he was practising verse, though as yet showing little individuality.

We want an expression, say, of the work of Keats, want to be told wherein lies his individuality.

These classes, each of which formed a distinct body within the State, carried on an existence peculiar to itself, and presented in its collective capacity a separate individuality.