1 She was a hired nurse, the wife of one of the turnkeys, and her countenance expressed all those bad qualities which often characterize that class.
2 The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South.
3 The words which characterize it in administrative language are sonorous and dignified.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS 4 Looking now at the county black population as a whole, it is fair to characterize it as poor and ignorant.
5 But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift for silence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down the driveway.
6 They were gentle, quiet spoken, reserved people and not given to even the amiable bickering that characterized most Atlanta families.
7 This particular season Mrs. Peniston would have characterized as that in which everybody "felt poor" except the Welly Brys and Mr. Simon Rosedale.
8 He raised the lid of the desk, and saw within it a cheque-book and a few packets of bills and letters, arranged with the orderly precision which characterized all her personal habits.
9 Cora was seated nigh them, a calm and amused looker-on; regarding the wayward movements of her more youthful sister with that species of maternal fondness which characterized her love for Alice.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 10 His course was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty.
11 Having got them fairly on board, and the boat being off, he came round, with that air of efficiency which ever characterized him, to take a review of them.
12 The speaker whom he addressed was our sometime friend Marks, who, with that valuable perseverance which characterized him, had come on to Sandusky, seeking whom he might devour.
13 Noirtier left the room when he had finished, with the same calmness that had characterized him during the whole of this remarkable and trying conversation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 12. Father and Son. 14 The lawyer was a young man with light hair whose face expressed a hundred times more emotion than that which characterized the prisoner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 110. The Indictment. 15 The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation characterized the second.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT