Mr. Lodeman recorded and endorsed the common opinion "that apples grown on dwarf trees are handsomer and of better quality than those grown upon standards"; but he did not seem to consider that fact of much importance.
It is not perfectly certain that every kind of fruit can be produced in higher quality on dwarf trees than on standards, but such is the general rule.
Apples in pots are very interesting and furnish a superior quality of fruit when grown under glass.
Fruit of finer quality can be grown on dwarf trees, as a general rule, than can usually be grown on standard trees.
There are greater rewards awaiting the fruit grower who can produce fruit of superior quality than the one who succeeds merely in increasing the quantity of his output.
All varieties of inferior quality would therefore be eliminated from consideration at the beginning, no matter how productive they might be, nor how famous for other things.
We should consider also that in other places, where fruit of very high quality is better appreciated, perhaps, than it is in America, the extra trouble is thought to be worth while for the superior quality which it gives the fruit.
Just so, if one of the lower classes has an attack of indigestion, he will not admit that he has eaten too much; he will complain of the quality of the food, and perhaps even suggest that somebody has tried to poison him.
And what is true of space is equally true of time, applies equally to quality and quantity.
Happily desire is checked by modesty, an obstacle which it can remove only on condition of the woman’s being strongly attracted by the object desired; a quality which will subsequently be transmissible to the species.
As muscle is added to the limb, so strength is added to the particular moral qualitywe exercise, and kindness is elicited, and men perhaps end by having some of the attributes which they began by affecting.
In 1916 he took up his abode at Touchet and became one of the dominant factors in the organization of the Quality Stores Company, having stores at Touchet, Lowden and Waitsburg.
Under his management these mills became the foremost industry of Waitsburg and the high quality of their product became well known throughout the state.
But in the essential fact, when stripped of that fantastic quality with which fear augments and embellishes its cherished creations, there was nothing necessarily supernatural nor strange.
There was an unrepenting quality in her conscience which braced and stimulated his moral courage.
By an associate he meant some one on whom he could test the quality of his deceit--in other words, he liked to try his sword on gossamer and granite before he struck out at commoner materials.
She had neither the patience nor the sternness of mental quality which is required in a creative genius: the little songs and poems which she sometimes composed were insipid to an astonishing degree.
In a dry season, we frequently hear the farmer boast of the quality of his products.
This poor girl spent her wages as follows: Six pounds of bread, second quality .
The soil must be of such a quality as to convert this territory into an enormous secondary battery.
There was something remarkable in the quantity and quality of the politeness expressed by the Mexican officers after that money had been paid.
Their first and keenest interest was in the horses and mules, and the quality and number of these drew from them shouts of approval.
The account of a petrifying quality in the earth here, though some will have it to be in the water of a spring hard by, is very strange.
The reader wants to know what this qualityof being interesting has to do with girls' schools.
Also, it may be said that most frequently of all had his thoughts turned towards a certain quality of French soap which imparted a peculiar whiteness to the skin and a peerless freshness to the cheeks.
That being so, sir, I may say that I am about to show you clothes of a quality which even our illustrious capitals could not surpass.
A cloth of that kind I DO possess, sir, and though excessive in price, it is of a quality to match.
To say that Miss Carlyle dealt at the shop will be sufficient to proclaim the good quality of the articles kept in it.
She possessed a remarkably keen sense of hearing, did Miss Carlyle; though, indeed, none of her faculties lacked the quality of keenness.
Nothing of moral quality can be right for us on shipboard which is wrong for us on dry land.
And as Saul thus lived outside of all religious circles, so he seems to have been entirely wanting in that great quality which was needed for a king of Israel--loyalty to the Heavenly King.
He showed himself pre-eminent for the very quality in which his father had proved deficient.
Their true quality is ascertained; what is done for mean, selfish ends stands out before Him in all its native ugliness, and draws down the retribution that is meet.
The intense and consistent godliness of Samuel was probably the qualitythat was not popular among the people.
Only let us take heed to the quality and tone of our prayer.
How poor the quality of the one joy compared to that of the other!
It has every good quality but one, and that is its imperfect elasticity.
By a special process--the description of which we must for the present leave in abeyance--the China grass can be transformed into a material greatly resembling the finest quality of wool.
I was at that time not acquainted with the excellent quality of clay retorts used in zinc works, with which I have since experimented for a different purpose.
I show you also fresh broken specimens which will give you a good idea of the beautiful quality of this material.
Now appeared the folly of promoting a general to the headship of a great army simply because of his fighting-quality and his success with a division or a corps.
The same high quality belonged to Grant and Sherman, and to Washington and Greene in the Revolutionary War.
The drop-eared variety is usually the heavier and larger dog of the two; and for some reason does not show the quality and breeding of its neighbour.
The extreme of cultivation in this particular quality was reached some years ago by Mrs. Troughear, whose little dog Conqueror, weighing 5-1/2 lb.
The quality of the coat is very important; the coat should be very dense, with plenty of undercoat; the outer coat somewhat harsh and quite straight.
Another bad quality of coat is one in which, upon the withers and over the loins in particular, the curls do not tighten up naturally, but are large, loose, and soft to the feel.
COAT--Dense black or liver, of fine quality and texture.
Colonel Malcolm, of Poltalloch, who is recognised as the great authority on the breed, lays stress upon the quality of the coat.
A fuller knowledge has done much to increase the pride which the British people take in their canine companions, and our present population of dogs has never been equalled for good quality in any other age or any other land.
But one would hardly hesitate to head the list with the name of Paymaster, a dog of rare and almost superlative quality and true Irish Terrier character.
The head should be powerful, but at the same time show quality by its nice modelling.
It is a law in zoology that an animal cannot transmit a quality which it does not itself innately possess, or which none of its progenitors has ever possessed.
As in the case of medical charms, more virtue would often seem to reside in the mystic formula uttered while the flower is being secretly gathered, than in any particular quality of the flower itself.
Saddles--The sewing by Machine has now become universal, and in point of quality is only just inferior to hand work.
Charles Wood and Sons, of Bath Street and of St. Paul’s Square, not long afterward gained a reputation as manufacturers of high quality watches.
The machines marked with * produce not only cheaper, but betterquality of work.
No special quality of soil or geological condition is required for the existence of Molluscs; whatever the nature of the ground may be, some species or other will reward the searcher.
In Germany there is only one, and its make though improved in quality is very inconsiderable in comparison with the large consumption of steel pens in Germany.
The quality has, however, of late years, been so reduced in order to force a sale, that unquestionably a reaction has set in against them.
They apparently did not understand the all-important fact that the quality which makes the submarine so difficult to deal with is its invisibility.
From that day in history when the submarine made its first appearance, the one quality which seemed to distinguish it from all other kinds of warship was that it could not be used to fight itself.
Thus the ability to submerge was merely a quality that was utilized only in those crises when the submarine either had to escape a vessel which was stronger than itself or planned to attack one which was weaker.
Yet that was far from being the case, for against the ash can, with its 300 pounds of TNT, the submarine possessed one quality which gave it great defensive power.
Up to March, 1918, only a comparatively small part of this American army had reached Europe, but the Germans had already tested its fighting quality and had learned to respect it.
Certain early experiences had led me to believe that the merchant captains were wrong in underestimating the quality of their own seamanship.
The poor quality of the coal which they were obtaining would also make it difficult to maintain a regular speed.
For a thing is altered when change of quality takes place; therefore either rest in its quality or change in the direction of the contrary may be called the contrary of this qualitative form of motion.
For instance, the upright man takes his character from the possession of the quality of integrity, but the name given him is not derived from the word 'integrity'.
We may therefore state that those things are said to be possessed of some specific quality which have a name derived from that of the aforesaid quality, or which are in some other way dependent on it.
But statements and opinions themselves remain unaltered in all respects: it is by the alteration in the facts of the case that the contrary quality comes to be theirs.
One sort of quality let us call 'habit' or 'disposition'.
Another sort of quality is that in virtue of which, for example, we call men good boxers or runners, or healthy or sickly: in fact it includes all those terms which refer to inborn capacity or incapacity.
Whereas none of the characteristics I have mentioned are peculiar to quality, the fact that likeness and unlikeness can be predicated with reference to quality only, gives to that category its distinctive feature.
One quality may be the contrary of another; thus justice is the contrary of injustice, whiteness of blackness, and so on.
The fourth sort of quality is figure and the shape that belongs to a thing; and besides this, straightness and curvedness and any other qualities of this type; each of these defines a thing as being such and such.
Moreover, one and the same thing may exhibit a quality in a greater degree than it did before: if a thing is white, it may become whiter.
Further, if anything should happen to fall within both the category of quality and that of relation, there would be nothing extraordinary in classing it under both these heads.
The original garum was no doubt akin to our modern anchovy sauce, at least the best quality of the ancient sauce.
Modern kitchen methods have put the old mortar practically out of existence, at the expense of quality of the finished product.
When he spoke, his voice had a quality of suave ugliness that grated like a rasped saw on Charlotte's nerves.
That fine quality of breeding in her which Collingwood was unable to define, but which pleased him inordinately, was never more apparent.
But that fact no longer weighted him with a quality which needed apology or forgiveness; she saw in it growth, the only enduring, magnificent thing in this universal scheme.
The word had no part in Collingwood's vocabulary; but it is applicable because it expresses the quality of worship which he had injected into an otherwise very mundane emotion.
Generalling the community as if he was a marshal of brigade, John Splendid showed me the first of his manly quality in his preparation for the removal of the women and children.
They called me Sobersides in those days: Miver gave me the name and kept it on me lili the very last, and yet sobriety of spirit (in one way) was the last quality in those oh!
The woman put out some food before us, coarse enough in quality but plenty of it, and was searching in a press for platters when she turned to ask how many of us there were.
He was pleased at my candour, I could see; confidence is a quality that rarely fails of its purpose.
Colkitto MacDonald was Gael by birth and young breeding, but Erinach by career, and repugnant to the most malignant of the west clans before they got to learn, as they did later, his quality as a leader.
I could be doing with more about me of the quality I mention; better than horse and foot would they be, more trusty than the claymores of my clan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
