Characters

Examples

• There are also characters peculiar to different nations and particular persons, as well as common to mankind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is therefore from the influence of characters and qualities, upon those who have an intercourse with any person, that we blame or praise him. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A pretty list indeed, said Brougham, alluding to my characters, as advertised in the newspapers by Stockdale. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But he hasn't borne the Roman yoke as I have, nor yet he hasn't been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am afraid we have changed characters, Crispin. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Elliston himself is kind enough to play one of my characters, and the others he has given to his very best performers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Typewriters for short hand characters, and for foreign languages, and for printing on record and blank books, are also among the modern developments of this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Nor were such characters ideal. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• All the obnoxious characters of change and diversity thus attach themselves to doing while knowing is as permanent as its object. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We shall not then be degraded from our true characters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And here's Kirby's Wonderful Museum,' said Mr Boffin, 'and Caulfield's Characters, and Wilson's. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Hence, the transmitted message was received on the tape in visible dots and dashes representing characters of the Morse alphabet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Do you like characters of the Rousseau order, Caroline? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her other servants would probably be grateful for good characters, but I wanted none. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Operated by a single person, the Mergenthaler produces and assembles linotypes ready for the press or stereotyping table at the rate of from 3,600 to 7,000 ems (type characters) per hour. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But I had not done with it yet; and other memoranda were destined to be set down in characters of tint indelible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If the characters are not erased repeat as before. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• If I spoke all I think on this point, if I gave my real opinion of some first-rate female characters in first-rate works, where should I be? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nor is every sentiment of pleasure or pain, which arises from characters and actions, of that peculiar kind, which makes us praise or condemn. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I know nobody who distinguishes characters better. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Dorothea is learning to read the characters simply, said Mr. Casaubon, evading the question. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• D'Arnot was astonished to see, in plain print-like characters, a message in English: I am Tarzan of the Apes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• How dare you set up superiorities against all these characters combined in your sister? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In this matter of the Diamond, he said, the characters of innocent people have suffered under suspicion already--as you know. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• After that, there was but one thing left for Mr. Seegrave to do--namely, to set to work, and tackle the servants' characters himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Public characters, Alfred. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After considerable thought, Mr. Duncan hit upon the plan of embossing, typewriter style, characters upon a metal plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All our people have excellent characters, I said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Edited by Helen