1 Now, a real German invariably prints in the Latin character, so that we may safely say that this was not written by one, but by a clumsy imitator who overdid his part.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 2 Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.
3 He had SEEMED to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence.
4 In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 5 "He don't seem a very popular character," observed the latter.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE 6 Utterson became so used to the unvarying character of these reports, that he fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON 7 I have been a determined character in later life, and I suppose I was then.
8 His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago.
9 With this impression of her interesting character upon her, Mrs. Sparsit considered herself, in some sort, the Bank Fairy.
10 When the first hour was out, Stephen even began to have an uncomfortable sensation upon him of being for the time a disreputable character.
11 I have no further trust, than that I know something of her character and her marriage.
12 He shall come back of his own accord to clear himself, and put all those that have injured his good character, and he not here for its defence, to shame.
13 It was not difficult to ascertain the condition and character of one of these personages.
14 Yet so loose were the ideas of the times respecting the conduct of the clergy, whether secular or regular, that the Prior Aymer maintained a fair character in the neighbourhood of his abbey.
15 Prior Aymer, therefore, and his character, were well known to our Saxon serfs, who made their rude obeisance, and received his "benedicite, mes filz," in return.