1 It was characteristic of the regard in which Scarlett was held that few people based their defense or their criticism of her on her personal integrity.
2 At the thought her spirits began to rise: it was characteristic of her that one trifling piece of good fortune should give wings to all her hopes.
3 But this characteristic command seemed to reestablish their former relations; and Lily smiled at the thought that her friend had probably summoned her in order to hear about the Brys' entertainment.
4 She meditated upon his gutter patois, the Boeotian dialect characteristic of Gopher Prairie.
5 But this occasional timidity is characteristic of almost all herding creatures.
6 Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the sexes.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. 7 A characteristic which distinguished them and which impressed Mrs. Pontellier most forcibly was their entire absence of prudery.
8 Mrs. Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a characteristic hitherto contrary to her nature.
9 Mademoiselle Reisz answered Monsieur Ratignolle in French, which Edna thought a little rude, under the circumstances, but characteristic.
10 First they took out the soil to make bricks, and then they filled it up again with garbage, which seemed to Jurgis and Ona a felicitous arrangement, characteristic of an enterprising country like America.
11 The Hurons had awaited the result of this short dialogue with characteristic patience, and with a silence that increased until there was a general stillness in the band.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 12 Duncan, brave as he was in the combat, could not, in such a moment of painful suspense, make any reply to the cool and characteristic remark of the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 13 These two narratives gave a proper direction to the subsequent inquiries, which were now made with the characteristic cunning of savages.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 14 On reaching it the girls deposited their burden, and continued for many minutes waiting, with characteristic patience, and native timidity, for some evidence that they whose feelings were most concerned were content with the arrangement.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 15 She had gone to a place where tears are dry; but every one around her was, in some way characteristic of themselves, showing signs of hearty sympathy.