On account of the parchment-like character of the pods, the seeds seldom suffer from the effects of wet weather.
From the peculiar, tree-like character of the plants, the variety is remarkably well adapted for cultivation in pots; but its late maturity greatly impairs its value as a variety for forcing.
Alfonso reduced the tribute due from Granada, debased the coinage, increased the salaries of court officials, expended enormous sums in celebration of the marriage of his eldest son, and was responsible for other acts of a like character.
And Sidonius alludes to upholstery of like character: "Peregrina det supellex Ubi torvus, et per artem Resupina flexus ora, It equo reditque telo Simulacra bestiarum Fugiens fugansque Parthus.
Various other European legends of like character will be found in Liebrecht's Gervasius von Tilbury, pp.
The name Bolor is very old, occurring in Hiuen Tsang's Travels (7th century), and in still older Chinese works of like character.
Other illustrations of a like character are to be met with in the membranous scales that represent leaves in Ruscus, Asparagus, Pinus, &c.
In this case probably the two supernumerary stamens were petals which had assumed an anther-like character.
Of a like character is the fact that the double Ranunculus asiaticus loses its doubleness if the roots are planted in a poor soil.
One beautiful feature of the silver-pine forests is their open, park-like character.
The precipitation over large areas is insufficient to maintain permanent streams, the vegetation is nearly all of a desert-like character, and several basins exist which do not drain to the sea.
It makes all the difference between California and Nevada in the one case, and Mazanderan and the desert-like character of Central Persia in the other.
The hue of the plant is a peculiarly fresh and pleasing green, and it forms an elegant object in the centre of a flower-bed or group with plants of like character.
Useful for grouping with the preceding or other hardy shrubs of like character.
By pruning it to a single stem, it may be made to assume a very effective palm-like character.
Attraction, when the currents flow parallel with each other, or are of opposite natures, and repelling when of like character.
Some are merely oddities, while others are full of life-like character.
At the sides are two imps of a somewhat Robin Goodfellow-like character, each bearing a scroll with the account of the misdeeds of the sinners, and which we may presume are the warrants by which Satan is entitled to seize his prey.
Behind stand two persons, perhaps male and female, whose religious dress would lead us to suppose them to represent the class to whose teaching a fox-like character is to be attributed.
I told him how cruel it would be to do so, and used many arguments of like character; but they availed nothing.
Nor were our good friends wanting in efforts of like character.
Memory recalls many other instances of like character, perpetrated at this period, the most disgraceful in the annals of American history.
The Indian Shiva, "the Destroyer", in the old religious poems has also primitive attributes of like character.
The Grendel story in Beowulf,[176] the Anglo-Saxon epic, is of like character.
Nearly all of the financial operations of Wall street brokers are of a like character.
In the cases we have given, as well as in all others of a like character, where any combination or corporation desires to influence or carry certain measures, the undivided support of the employees is expected.
The new League of Nations cannot give itself a constitution of a state-like character, but only one sui generis on very simple lines 22 XIV.
Yet while a Federal World State is impossible, a League of Nations is not, provided such league gives itself a constitution, not of a state-like character, but one sui generis.
The new League of Nations cannot give itself a constitution of a state-like character, but only one sui generis on very simple lines.
This fact shows that the spout-like character of the Camels' odontoid process is not a point of affinity to other Artiodactyles--in fact the occurrence of the same form of odontoid process in Perissodactyles is enough proof of this.
Another Whale-like character in the skull is the weak character of the mandible, which does not give off a marked coronoid process.
Its salient feature is the very peculiar dentition: peculiar in the small size of the canines, the canine-like character of the anterior premolars, and the resemblance of the premolars to molars.
In the cervical vertebrae we see the Whale-like character of fusion between individual vertebrae; and also, as in the Whales, the degree to which this fusion is carried out varies; two to four may be thus united.
The theme itself has a church-like character, almost "sacred.
The melody is only suggested in the upper tones of the right-hand part, and the sixteenth motion is intended to have a certain chord-like character; meanwhile the bass has a part somewhat like a melody suitable for 'cello.
And in consequence of its elevated and poetic sentiment, its caprice and program-like character, it affords one of the best possible studies in Bach's style at its best.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like character" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
