For a postmistress we might enumerate the qualifications of quickness of eye, strict integrity, a retentive memory, and patient industry.
It is for the same reason, too, that a retentivememory is necessary.
He had a quick and retentive memory, and a frankness of manner which precluded any suspicion of artifice.
To speak the truth, he had a quick conception, a methodical judgment, and a retentive memory; and though his language was not much embellished, it was very far from being low.
She speaks from a mind overflowing with general information, made available by a retentive memory, a ready wit, and in exhaustible good spirits.
Thus stiff clay soils are rendered lighter, and more easily workable, by an admixture of sand, while light blowy sands are compacted, and made more retentive of manure, by a dressing of clay or of muck.
Why does it make the soil more retentive of manure?
We are now able to see how carbon renders the soil retentive of manures.
Memory brings up, upon her retentive tablet, the recollection of a family that fell before its withering blight, ere the elasticity of youth had passed away.
Let us begin our exposition, then, by first dealing systematically for a while with certain definite parts of the body, in reference to which we may accurately test and enquire what sort of thing the retentive faculty is.
Herein, then, again, the retentive faculty is shown to have its necessary origin: for the stomach obviously inclines towards its own proper qualities and turns away from those that are foreign to it.
III We may expect, then, to detect the retentive faculty in the uterus more clearly in proportion to the longer duration of its activity as compared with that of the stomach.
Tight grip of uterus on growing embryo, and accurate closure of os uteri during operation of the retentive faculty.
Now it is impossible to speak of both organs at once, so we shall deal with each in turn, beginning with the one which is capable of demonstrating the retentive faculty most plainly.
V Thus all these facts agree that the stomach, uterus, and bladders possess certain inborn faculties which are retentive of their own proper qualities and eliminative of those that are foreign.
Chapter III Exercise of the retentive faculty particularly well seen in the uterus.
Thus rice demands a moistretentive soil; potatoes a soft sandy soil; wheat a firm and rich soil.
It did not require the retentive memory of the redskin to make him look with suspicion on solicitations of friendship from men who might have been parties to such schemes of extermination to his race.
I soon perceived that he had a very retentive memory, and was full of anecdote.
His power of analysis, his keen perception and retentive memory soon advanced him beyond the youths of his own age, and forced him to seek outside the pale of the schoolroom for the means to satisfy his hunger for knowledge.
The talk had been animated, and the heavy tapestry at the door had not prevented much of it from reaching the ears of the young priest and becoming fixed in his retentive memory.
He attended diligently the usual routine of college studies, and being possessed of a very retentive memory, these were attained or performed without difficulty.
He had a very retentive memory, and had made as great proficiency in speech as the generality of boys of his own age.
Others have found this plan an excellent one, and have developed their power of perception greatly, and at the same time cultivated an amazingly retentive memory of objects thus seen.
And in the social intercourse of men and women, the possession of a retentive memory, well stocked with available facts, renders its possessor a desirable member of society.
You may have tired of these words--but they constitute the main principles of the development of a retentive memory.
He has a very retentive memory, and is quoted as an authority in the local history of Prairie du Chien.
Neither, although he had a retentive memory, and possessed a great deal of various knowledge on many subjects, could he be called learned, for he had not really mastered any branch of history, and was often inaccurate in details.
He was an incessant reader, especially of poetry and novels, with a retentive memory for poetry, as well as a finely modulated and expressive voice in reciting it.
I reminded Lord Roberts of the incident when I came to know him better, and he replied with a laugh: “I recall the matter perfectly, for I like to think I have a retentive memory.
With astonishing precision, he finds his way, from street to street, and from house to house, supplying his customers with the various periodical publications that he carries; and this only by the means of an extraordinary retentive memory.
Experience has shewn that its effects are most beneficial on light and deep sandy soils, but that on heavy retentive clays it is without effect, or even absolutely injurious.
But the strength of the Roman mind consisted more in retentivecapacity than in creative energy.
So it is said in regard to the kumbhaka or retentive breath, "repress your breath and you repress all," because every action is done by the repression of the breath).
The past lives, actions and demise of all reflective souls, are as fast imprinted in them, as any thought is preserved in the retentive mind and vacuous intellect.
Of well-fought fields and trophies won The memory lives while ages pass; Graven on everlasting stone, Or written on retentive brass.
She not only read with eagerness every book which met her eye, but pursued this uninterrupted miscellaneous reading to singular advantage, treasuring up all important facts in her retentive memory.
Throughout his long term of office the duke of Cambridge evinced a warm interest in the welfare of the soldier, and great experience combined with a retentive memory made him a master of detail.
He had a most retentive memory and a very keen power of observation.
She had an extremely retentive memory, read well, and evinced great love of reading.
Possesses a wonderfully retentive memory of every thing like facts and incidents; with large Language and Imitation, tells a story admirably, and excels in fiction, etc.
