Merchants from other States and cities like the liberal and enterprising spirit which characterizes the dealings of the New York merchants.
He did justice to the marvellous fertility of intellect whichcharacterizes the authorship of the present age.
What," said my father one day in dispute with Trevanion, "what characterizes the literature of our time is its human interest.
Contrasting it with that of Tertullian, he characterizes it as "more superficial," and he considers that its only merit is its presenting an independent view of Marcion's Gospel.
Wilfulness characterizes the childish nature and passion the savage nature.
A kind of selfish intelligence characterizes their thinking.
No one would say offhand that it was the work of a woman; and yet it shows none of the overstrain that sometimes characterizes a woman artist when she wishes her work to seem masculine.
It encourages a liking for what I call messy art, instead of developing a taste for the simplicity that always characterizes the best kind of beauty, the kind that develops naturally out of a central idea.
Five minutes had sufficed for him to recognize the imminence of the danger his friend incurred; with that rapidity of decision which characterizes Redskins in extreme cases, he had resolved to warn his friend, and to save or perish with him.
It presents that aspect of preternatural vastness which characterizes the continent of Asia and all that concerns it.
Hence, the utter architectural impotence which characterizes the Americans and the modern English; and hence the bewildered ignorant way in which we ordinarily contemplate pictures and statues.
With all that propensity for mischief that characterizes sailors on shore, he immediately formed, and proceeded to put in execution, a plan for the torment and vexation of his antagonist of the yard-stick.
When six o'clock came I was still carting from the top of the orchard, and for an hour past I had been working with that grim automatism which characterizes the last lap of a two-mile race.
The operas have not been analyzed with that closeness of detail which characterizes the "Standard Operas," as they do not call for treatment of that kind, and in many cases the leading numbers are only suggested.
The music is lively throughout and oftentimes brilliant, and of a higher standard than usually characterizes opera bouffe.
Recent criticism, however, characterizes his compositions as artificial and almost uniformly dull.
With a view to making her descriptions of the world's capital vividly real, she pursues her study of Paris with all the thoroughness that characterizes her study of history.
Then, with the energy that characterizes his every movement, he sets about trying to repair the injury he has just done to his silk hat by brushing it the wrong way.
This guiding identity runs through all the surprises and contrasts of the piece, and characterizes every law.
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
Sunstroke, virtually active congestion of the brain, often accompanied with effusion and blood extravasation, characterizes this condition, with often rapid and fatal lowering of all the vital functions.
Young men on the watch for attack are not in a state for fertilizing "seed thoughts" or for turning over hard matters in their minds, and care for the state of the recipient characterizes the teaching of Christ.
This literal mindedness does not belong to one Apostle or two, but characterizes them all, and it appears in St John's Gospel as frequently as in the other three.
Sarah having drank the cold water, once more shut her eyes, and fell into that broken and oppressive slumber which characterizes the terrible malady which had stricken her down.
He characterizes a foolish man as someone who neither asks for advise nor accepts it.
He further characterizes the foolish man as someone who is scornful, divisive, quarrelsome, and mocking of other's efforts with cynicism and sarcasm.
The existence of tubercular deposits in the tissues of the body, which characterizes scrofula, when fully developed, must not, however, be regarded as the primary affection.
Burning pain characterizes violent inflammations involving the skin and subjacent cellular tissue, as in case of boils and carbuncles.
The bloom on the nose which characterizes the genial toper is the established sign of alcoholic action on the vascular structure.
Hence, the degeneration that characterizes the disease has been designated as waxy degeneration.
Crudity or deficiency of the verb characterizes the speech of all primitive peoples.
A sardonic humor, sometimes smudged with "that touch of grossness in our English race," characterizes many of the backwoods place-names.
It is this extraordinary confidence in the power of the human intellect, which eminently characterizes Descartes, and has given to his philosophy that peculiar sublimity which distinguishes it from all other systems.
Saints, too, being in great repute, their biographies were written in profusion, and with an indifference to truth which usually characterizes that species of composition.
And both with increasing hope, and with that increasing sense of the seriousness and significance of life which so characterizes the social consciousness, to urge: "Strive to enter in.
We have never known them to assume the threatening attitude which characterizes so many of our small species, nor seek to drive intruders away by sharp scoldings and angry gesticulations.
Their devotion to each other is nearly unbounded, and is scarcely excelled, if at all, by that which characterizes our smaller Titmice.
There is an expression of cheerfulness in these notes, though they are not delivered with that enthusiasm which characterizes the songs of many of our species.
It must be added that the diffuseness which characterizes her fiction, also pervades her correspondence.
She was the last to adopt this system of slavery, and she adopted it in that thorough manner whichcharacterizes the actions of the Anglo-Saxon race.
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