Singleness of purpose characterised this sect, which was often called Monto, or followers of the gate, in reference to its unity of organization, and the opening of the way to all by Shinran and the doctrine taught by him.
The Council, however, proceeded to discuss the question in a very unpromising fashion, the discussion being characterised by a good deal of blatant braggadocio, and accompanied by a very free use of the wine-cup.
Tis best to hear the whole matter; though 'tis characterised by too much boldness to be to my liking.
The vast majority of birds belong to the Carinatae, characterised by the projecting keel (Carina) in the middle of the breast-bone.
They are characterised by the striking difference in their two pairs of wings, of which the anterior pair is strong and horny, and forms, when at rest, a sheath which covers the thinner posterior pair of wings.
The Panorpidæ, or Scorpion Flies, are very curious creatures, characterised above all things by the perpendicularly placed and greatly elongated head.
Intestine feuds and dissensions neutralised their giant power; and the weakness and disorganisation by which the majority are now characterised is to be ascribed to the fact of there being no paramount chief.
Many also had lost relations during the rebellion, and misfortune had not abated one atom of the imperious demeanour which ever characterised the chief.
The same uninteresting volcanic appearance characterised the entire country to the table-land of Warelissan, a distance of twelve miles.
He then strode out of the area with the same haughty and measured step that had characterised his entrance.
Act, and characterised it as absurd to contend that a particular mode of ruling a book constituted an object for a copyright.
Our heads are full of poetry, but we cannot give it expression," are the words with which Cornelius himself characterised this period.
Even Merimee in his last novel, Lokis, was clearly the forerunner of that tendency in taste which Taine characterised by the words, "Depuis dix ans une nuance de brutalite complete l'elegance.
Delecluze, the indefatigable defender of the sacred dogmas of the Classical school, characterised "dramatic expression and composition marked by action" as the reef whereon the grand style of painting must inevitably be wrecked.
The successive advance and retreat of the ice, therefore, was not a local phenomenon, but characterisedall the glaciated areas.
Such severe glacial conditions, after continuing for a long time, were interrupted more than once by intervening periods characterised by a milder and more genial climate.
An extremely humid climate seems to have characterised Scotland even in post-glacial times, as may be gathered from the phenomena of her peat-mosses.
Moreover, we must remember that the Glacial period was characterised by several great changes of climate.
The first period of the Mesozoic era, namely, the Triassic, was characterised by much the same kind of conditions as obtained towards the close of Palaeozoic times.
Germany, justify geologists in concluding that the interglacial epoch was one of long duration, and characterised in Germany by climatic conditions apparently not less temperate than those that now obtain.
No doubt it cannot, but, as we maintain, there is no good reason for supposing that tropical or sub-tropical climates ever characterised any area within the Arctic Circle.
This action is especially conspicuous in tropical and sub-tropical regions, which are characterised by well-marked rainy seasons.
During the last twenty years the evidence of interglacial conditions both in Europe and America has so increased that geologists generally no longer doubt that the Pleistocene period was characterised by great changes of climate.
Nehring discovered in so-called loess three successive horizons, each characterised by a special fauna.
But in his voice too there has already crept that note of sullenness which characterised the sapeurs from the first.
He had lost her when he was only fourteen years of age, but he recollected her virtues with the most heart-felt reverence, as well as that timidity and reserve which characterised them.
But in Italy this distinction of rank is not very sensible; the country is morecharacterised by the natural talent and imagination of all, than by the extraordinary cultivation of the upper classes.
He has not even characterised the manners of those countries and those centuries which he has painted.
It was not the French style, characterised by the elegance and difficulty of the step; it was a talent more connected with imagination and sentiment.
Such were the sentiments that tormented Oswald; and what particularly characterised his unhappy situation, was the vivacity of youth united to thoughts of another age.
His good-bye was chiefly characterised by the pleasant way in which he thanked his guests, as he stood at the door, for having come to see him.
So hungry and impatient was he that he did not cross-examine Janet with that severity which generally characterised him as she--well primed in her part--explained that Maggie had already started for the ball.
She was characterised by a strong sense of indignation; but her emotions of this sort were short-lived, and in no long time subsided into a dignified sereneness and equanimity.
The second may be characterised as the medical method, and is valuable, or rather I should be inclined to say, will be valuable, when it has found its place, which is to be subsidiary to the first.
It was also characterised by a spirit of creativeness; the Egyptian created new religious conceptions because he was not afraid to follow his premisses to their end.
The employment of women in the temple services peculiarlycharacterised Babylonia.
Certain it is that the elaborate system of astro-theology which characterised Babylonian religion was an artificial creation.
With the pedantic attention to details which characterised the Egyptian, every part of it has been carefully elaborated.
We owe the first discovery of this sacred literature to the genius of Francois Lenormant; he it was who first drew attention to it and characterised its several divisions.
They are characterised by their large, square, bony heads, and by the finger-like rays of the pectoral fins which are used as organs of touch and for creeping along the bottom of the sea.
The last genus of the order is Litosiphon, a parasitic group characterised by a cylindrical, cartilaginous, unbranched frond, with scattered, naked spores.
Porpoises and Dolphins together form the family Delphinidae, characterised by having the blow-hole in the form of a crescent with its convexity turned towards the front, and of these the Porpoises constitute the genus Phocaena.
The plants of this order are herbs, characterised by their alternate leaves with sheathing stipules; and small flowers, usually bisexual, often with a coloured perianth.
The class is usually divided into two orders, one characterised by the possession of two gills, and the other of four; but the British species belong to the former, known technically as the Dibranchiata.
These, together with the corals, form the division of the coelenterates known as the Zoantharia, characterised by the possession of simple tentacles, the number of which is a multiple of either five or six.
Another section of the genus is characterised by pinnate fronds with opposite segments, and the species are very pretty plants with fronds generally a few inches in length.
They belong to the order Naiadaceae, and are characterisedby cellular leaves with parallel veins, and inconspicuous unisexual or bisexual flowers.
The typical genus (Chenopodium) contains the weeds designated by the name of Goosefoot, all characterised by their straggling stems and small flat leaves.
It is characterised by its slender silky fronds, from a few inches to a foot in length, of a yellowish-green colour.
The Monocotyledons are also characterised by having the bundles of vessels (vascular bundles) of the stems dispersed; the veins of the leaves are also usually parallel, and the parts of the flower are arranged in whorls of three or six.
A jaw so entirely bird-like suggests that the digestive organs of Pterodactyles may in such toothless forms at least have been characterised by a gizzard, which is so distinctive of Birds.
It is characterised by the bone named the ilium being uniformly directed forward.
The general effect of it may be briefly characterised as grateful to the eye and dangerous to the heart, and to a rational train of thought quite fatal.
And the designs which take the name of "poster" and are characterised by strength, simplicity and few tones, why would they not give the same crispness of detail that constitutes one of the charms of Gothic work?
Twenty-eight pieces composed the series, and they were drawn with that exquisite combination of romantic scenes and fields of pure decorative design that characterised the charm of the regence.
It was this blessed feeling, kindled in earliest infancy by the fostering hand of parental love, which now characterised and composed every emotion of Caroline's swelling bosom, which bade her feel that this indeed was happiness.
This, however, rather added to the suggestion of forcefulness that usually characterised him.
Jefferson rose with the abruptness which usually characterised his movements.
On the whole, college life in the mid-century was characterisedby a Spartan simplicity.
They were characterised by simplicity, by frugality and by reverence.
Two years of inaction followed, and even after the trustees of the Royal Institution were appointed, delay characterised the efforts of the authorities.
On the whole, the ten years had been characterised by steady, if slow, advance, achieved by much toil and many sacrifices.
In view of the want of principle thatcharacterised the eighteenth century, the one safeguard for the individual was the yoke imposed by society with its customs and demands.
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