This shows the characteristic rise and fall of an epidemic catarrh both in the article of fever deaths and in the column of deaths from all causes.
These are the characteristic London bills of a hot autumn; they recur sometimes two or three years in succession, and on an average perhaps once or twice in a decennium.
His two drawings of the characteristic hornpox were made from unvaccinated children.
In London the bills of mortality, which relate only to a part of London, showed the characteristic sudden rise and fall: Baptisms Burials Four weeks, 20 Feb.
It was characteristic of Edith that she kept to her own point, though not aggressively.
Edith was essentially a very feminine woman though she had a mental attitude rightly held to be more characteristic of men.
Chiefly in their pronunciation of the characteristic G and Z of the Castilian as S instead of TH.
A thick waist-band, usually of silk, often red, and a characteristic portion of the dress of a great majority of Spaniards.
Before taking leave of Cadiz I shall relate an anecdote of the British consul, characteristic of him and the happy manner in which he contrives to execute the most disagreeable duties of his situation.
The characteristic headdress of Spanish ladies, of black silk or lace, drawn over the back of the head and shoulders.
It displayed a characteristic calm confidence in herself that she should thus have entirely locked up her earnings for twelve years.
The most interesting and characteristic feature distinguishing this work is, however, the openness and freedom of its thought combined with the profound reverence that it shows for all that is venerable.
The first business was to make a new will; and this was a characteristic document.
It wascharacteristic that she should think it necessary to take the trouble to read the whole MS.
The next letter is very characteristicand perfectly true to her state of mind with regard to flatterers: May 21, '71.
The letters which Miss Arnold, during occasional absences from home, received from her old friend, are very domestic, lively, and characteristic of the writer.
First, because it is itself a passion, and therefore likely to becharacteristic of passionate men.
Nevertheless, one good and characteristicinstance may be of service in marking the leading directions in which the contrast is discernible.
And this will become still more manifest if we examine somewhat farther into the nature of this instinct, as characteristic especially of youth.
We turn our eyes, therefore, as boldly and as quickly as may be, from these serene fields and skies of mediaeval art, to the most characteristic examples of modern landscape.
Again: the peculiar levity with which natural scenery is regarded by a large number of modern minds cannot be considered as entirely characteristic of the age, inasmuch as it never can belong to its greatest intellects.
And this name would, unfortunately, be characteristic of our art in more ways than one.
Although, however, this example is characteristic of Titian in its wildness, it is not so in its looseness.
A characteristic anecdote is related of an American sailor, who saw several ladies looking out upon the street, through their grated parlor windows.
I do not know that it has been remarked by any other writer, but I observed it so often as to satisfy myself that it was a general characteristic of the better classes of the Habaneros, that they have a singular antipathy to water.
For several minutes they sat engrossed while occasionally one of them read a funny or characteristicextract over which they laughed happily.
Monotony is the characteristic of a modern voyage, and who shall describe it?
When the award was made to him, he wrote a most characteristic letter to his daughter, announcing the result.
It was characteristic of him that he should palliate his submission to the conventional thing by inventing a sensible excuse for it.
That, indeed, was characteristic of him, that he should always seem to be wearing things which were too big for him.
He was accustomed, as we know well enough, to speak of an Almighty Father, of whom justice and mercy and sympathy with weak and suffering humanity were characteristic attributes.
It was characteristic of Michael Fenger that his personality reached out and touched you before you came into actual contact with the man.
It was characteristic of Michael Fenger that he employed no cheap tricks.
Embellished with nearly 200 characteristic illustrations from original designs drawn expressly for this edition of this noted American Classic.
This characteristic did not alienate his old associates.
The girl had considered this point, but with characteristic decision had thought: "No; he shall see us all on the plainest side of our life.
Vigilant General Lee had observed the movement, and with characteristic boldness and skill ordered his troops from their strong intrenchments on Mine Run toward the Union flank.
I will now," said Herr Dremmel when the meal was finished, getting up and brushing crumbs out of the many folds that were characteristic of his clothes, "retire for a space into my laboratory.
Here is something new about the 'best talkers in the world:' 'Talk to a dozen Englishmen on any subject: there will be something peculiar and characteristic in the remarks of each.
The most obviouscharacteristic of American humor is its power of 'pitching it strong,' and drawing the long bow.
We thus have the man and his writings combined in a graphic portraiture, which illustrates the strong individuality of the one and the characteristicboldness and vigor of the other.
We pass to a few more brief and characteristic passages.
This unhappy characteristic had been fostered only during his early years.
One little incident right here, so characteristic of the man.
This characteristicanecdote perfectly agrees with what we have heard from other persons.
I may, however, relate an anecdote connected with the Coronation, told me by Josephine, and which is exceedingly characteristic of Napoleon.
It was characteristic at once of her dreaminess and her powers of self-discipline that she was fairly orderly, though she had great difficulty in being so.
Their lights shone out into the rainy mist of the air, on the glistening pavements, and on the faces of the cheerful chattering crowd, to which the shawled heads so common among the women gave the characteristic Lancashire touch.
Then Reuben gave a long sigh, and put his hand deep into his coat pocket, with the quavering, uncertain movement characteristic of him.
As she let fall the most characteristic of all French nouns, a slight tremor passed across the young man's face.
She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.
The native Lancashire element, lost as it is beneath many supervening strata, is still there and powerful; and there are strong well-defined characteristic interests and occupations which bind the whole together.
With a temper quite unlike that of the characteristic northerner, she showed no squeamishness at all about the matter.
Very likely he had the rapin's characteristic vices and distractions.
The old hate was in it, the old grudge, all that had been at least for him and Louie the inmost and characteristic soul of their tyrant.
It was characteristic of Dunstan that he included himself in the indictment.
Yet it was characteristicof her inherent nobility that she should attempt to force herself to an interest in these home matters, to attempt to form herself humbly on that narrow model.
I have often picked out a book from a library, simply for its characteristic binding.
Considering that there are many kinds of brains and only one kind of no brains, their diversity of gifts is remarkable, but one characteristic they have in common: they are all poets.
It is the product of a controversial need--a characteristic attempt to crawl out of a hole in an enclosure which he was not invited to enter.
