Characterized

Examples

• Roger Bacon's writings are characterized by a philosophical breadth of view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• How far otherwise he would have characterized him had his temper not been upset, I scarcely need intimate. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is characterized by sud denness, conciseness, and immediate certainty. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Passionate desire of sympathy, and ardent pursuit for a wished-for object still characterized me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He engaged in a course of electrical experiments with all the ardour and thirst for discovery which characterized the philosophers of that day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Poverty, dirt, and squalid misery characterized its appearance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A similar variation in structure had characterized a species of extinct ruminant in In dia. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Man takes a place in Aristotle's system of nature as a social animal, the highest type of the whole series of living beings, characterized by certain powers of recall, reason, deliberation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Hugh Meredith, Stephen Potts, and George Webb, I have characterized before. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The cult ure of the democratic man is above all characterized by adapt ability. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Desire of renown, and presumptuous ambition, had characterized his youth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• An animal thus characterized has been slaughtered, but the breeder has gone with confidence to the same stock and has succeeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This process is characterized by simplicity, sensitiveness in action, permanence of print, and a peculiarly soft and artistic quality in the picture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This particular season Mrs. Peniston would have characterized as that in which everybody felt poor except the Welly Brys and Mr. Simon Rosedale. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• All of us know that vinegar and lemon juice have a sour taste, and it is easy to show that most acids are characterized by a sour taste. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is a mark of genial spirits that they are well served, but the plenipotentiaries of the Conference were not characterized by it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As Shirley had said, a certain hardness characterized his air, while his eye was excited, but austere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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