Characteristics

Examples

• The yard presented none of that bustle and activity which are the usual characteristics of a large coach inn. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They were then carried through the receiving armature and reproduced on the receiving diaphragm, with all the same characteristics of pitch, loudness and quality. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Silk, lace, and wool when bleached with chlorine become hard and brittle, but when whitened with sulphurous acid, they retain their natural characteristics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This originality of thought and love of experiment for its own sake were to be chief characteristics of the future scientist. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Here he lived the life of a country gentleman, free to indulge the strong love of nature that had always been one of his leading characteristics. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The islands belong to Portugal, and everything in Fayal has Portuguese characteristics about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Come,' said Mr. Brownlow, 'these are not the characteristics of young Oliver Twist; so he needn't excite your wrath. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In all these things the American product resembles the old-world product generally, but always it has characteristics that are distinctive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In their modes of expressing thought, these two generals contrasted quite as strongly as in their other characteristics. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What are the characteristics of the air which have enabled man to accomplish these feats? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Contempt for popular opinion was one of his most strongly developed characteristics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Do fingerprints show racial characteristics? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The characteristics of white objects is their ability to reflect _all_ the various rays that fall upon them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Senefelder had advanced thus far, he had not yet made application of the chemical properties of ink and water, which constitute the distinguishing characteristics of Lithography. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In marked contrast to his kind, he had in well-developed form the kindlier human characteristics of love, friendship, and charity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He saw that pigeon-fanciers and stock-breeders deve lop certain types by preserving those variations that have the desired characteristics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It has the characteristics mentioned above and, in addition, does not combine readily with other substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There is no great difference of opinion now, in the public mind, as to the characteristics of the President. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But a cross between an ape and a man might show the characteristics of either progenitor? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She is to lose as far as possible the incidents of maternity and the characteristics of the female sex. Plato. The Republic.
• There were the same squalor, the same turmoil and noise, the same general characteristics, in every corner; in the best and the worst alike. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In order to understand how these calculations are made, we must study the physical characteristics of water just as we studied the physical characteristics of air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Charles Darwin possessed both these mental characteristics in an eminent degree. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Gloss and brilliancy are also characteristics of good quality Manila. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These and other kindred characteristics are proper to democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing equality to equals and unequals alike. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• If a current-bearing wire is really equivalent in its magnetic powers to a magnet, it must possess all of the characteristics mentioned in the preceding Section. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Yes, he said; but what are the characteristics of this form of government, and what are the defects of which we were speaking? Plato. The Republic.
• He knew the relation of the soil to the rocks, and th e effects of both on racial characteristics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But these are not the prominent personal characteristics which distinguish him, to my mind, from all the other men I have ever seen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All of those characteristics are essential to under-water air-pressure work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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