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Sentences starting with characters

Characters occasionally make their re-appearance in him, which we have reason to believe were possessed by his early progenitors. [1]

Sentences ending with characters

Other animals, belonging to quite distinct classes, are either habitually or occasionally capable of breeding before they have fully acquired their adult characters. [1]
I have pulled to pieces all the persons I am acquainted with, and put them together again in my characters. [6]
And this leads to a remark upon the shocking indifference of some novelists to the ordinary comfort of their characters. [4]
The memory of those March days of 1848 is impressed on my soul in ineffaceable characters. [10]
That must be the reason why novelists fail so lamentably in almost all cases in creating good characters. [4]
If you like the idea, he will call upon you in the course of two or three weeks and describe his plot and his characters. [5]
By October, when the French were fleeing toward Smolensk, there were hundreds of such companies, of various sizes and characters. [2]
There was a story about "strahps to your pahnts," which was vastly funny to us fellows--on the road from Milan to Venice.--Caelum, non animum,--travellers change their guineas, but not their characters. [6]
Thus the several species of Polyplectron manifestly make a graduated approach to the peacock in the length of their tail-coverts, in the zoning of the ocelli, and in some other characters. [1]
This shows what sort of a country modern Attica is--a community of questionable characters. [5]

Sentences containing characters two or more times

But a naturalist would undoubtedly have ranked as an ape or a monkey, an ancient form which possessed many characters common to the Catarrhine and Platyrrhine monkeys, other characters in an intermediate condition, and some few, perhaps, distinct from those now found in either group. [1]
The many characters which they possess in common can hardly have been independently acquired by so many distinct species; so that these characters must have been inherited. [1]
Cambyses took the roll of papyrus out of Onuphis' band, looked at the characters with which it was covered, shook his head, went up to Nebenchari and said: "Look at these characters and tell me if it is your father's writing. [10]
Suppose Sir Walter, instead of putting the conversations into the mouths of his characters, had allowed the characters to speak for themselves? [5]
Is it realized how much depends upon the clothes that are worn by the characters in the novels --clothes put on not only to exhibit the inner life of the characters, but to please the readers who are to associate with them? [4]
The characters of history we seldom agree about, and are always reconstructing on new information; but the characters of fiction are subject to no such vicissitudes. [4]
It is therefore against all probability that some New World species should have formerly varied and produced a man-like creature, with all the distinctive characters proper to the Old World division; losing at the same time all its own distinctive characters. [1]
Suppose Sir Walter [Scott] instead of putting the conversation into the mouths of his characters, had allowed the characters to speak for themselves? [5]

More example sentences with the word characters in them

I must pronounce you right again, in your complaint of the transfer of interest in the third volume, from one set of characters to another. [14]
And when the writer is making a story and finds it necessary to report some of the talk of his characters observe how cautiously and anxiously he goes at that risky and difficult thing. [5]
And then I wondered if it was not the disagreeable habit of some night-patrol or other to beat round the garden before the Sire went to bed for good, to find just such characters as I was gradually getting to feel myself to be. [4]
She was familiar with everything in Rome, the desires and struggles of the contending parties, as well as the characters of the men who were directing affairs, their qualities, views, and aims. [10]
I do not wish to run the risk of giving names to the ecclesiastical furniture which gave it such a Romish aspect; but there were pictures, and inscriptions in antiquated characters, and there were reading-stands, and flowers on the altar, and other elegant arrangements. [6]
Has he personages whose acts and talk correspond with their characters as described by him? [5]
If a naturalist, who had never before seen a Negro, Hottentot, Australian, or Mongolian, were to compare them, he would at once perceive that they differed in a multitude of characters, some of slight and some of considerable importance. [1]
A chief pleasure which the author of novels and stories experiences is that of becoming acquainted with the characters be draws. [6]
If this conclusion, which rests almost exclusively on brain-characters, be admitted, we should have a case of convergence at least in external characters, for the anthropomorphous apes are certainly more like each other in many points, than they are to other apes. [1]
It was late when we turned in, our heads upon our saddles, for the Cadi had been more than amusing--he had been confidential, and some political characters were roughly overhauled for our benefit, while so-called Society did not escape flagellation. [11]
The principal characters were to take their tours under the personal conduct of the novelist. [4]
If suspicious characters were seen about Port Henry, or if any such landed from the steamers on the shore of Lake Champlain, it was impossible to identify them with these invaders who were never seen. [4]
Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city which have been pointed out as fitting descriptions in that novel. [9]
From Switzerland I went to a foggy place called London, and thence I crossed the ocean to the solemn forests of the north of Canada, where I was many years, learning the characters of these gentlemen who are looking in upon us. [9]
In his pages we find characters and scenes minutely set forth in elaborate and characteristic detail, which is relieved and heightened in effect by the artistic breadth of light and shade thrown across the broader prospects of history. [6]
His letters from Washington are more occupied with the odd characters he met than with the measures of legislation. [4]
One of the very greatest characters in fiction, Natty Bumppo . [5]
He looked now upon the characters that covered it, and felt that he was unable to read a word. [10]
It was not until they were seated at dinner in the hotel, Ephraim with his napkin tucked under his chin, that Jethro gave them the key to the characters in this story. [9]
It is a truism to say that when the reader perceives that the author can compel his characters to do what he pleases all interest in them as real persons is gone. [4]
It is a truism to say that the genuine creations in fiction take their places in general apprehension with historical characters, and sometimes they live more vividly on the printed page and on canvas than the others in their pale, contradictory, and incomplete lives. [4]
It is perfectly true that his characters must, in the nature of things, have more or less of himself in their composition. [6]
The years of torment and suffering were written there in characters not to be mistaken. [9]
In "Shirley" she took the idea of most of her characters from life, although the incidents and situations were, of course, fictitious. [14]
I am obliged to walk, very much against my will; but the people expect it of me, and public characters can't be their own masters and mistresses in such matters as these. [12]
It is fearful to think how our characters are probably being lied away by innumerable pen scratches in secret repositories, which may some day come to light as unimpeachable witnesses. [4]
You are not to suppose any of the characters in 'Shirley' intended as literal portraits. [14]
Our characters began to suffer now. [5]
If you want to know how to account for yourself, study the characters of your relations. [6]
I begin, to-day, to entirely recast and re-write the first two-thirds--new plan, with two minor characters, made very prominent, one major character cropped out, and the Twins subordinated to a minor but not insignificant place. [5]
It is charitable to believe that they do not seriously contemplate or truly understand the meaning of the words they use, but rather play with them, as certain so-called "learned" quadrupeds play with the printed characters set before them. [6]
And second, and this seems at first a paradox, they are truer to the classic spirit than the characters in the contemporary French drama. [4]
When deviations from this rule occur, the transmitted characters much oftener appear before, than after the corresponding age. [1]
It was on this paper that young Sam Clemens began his writings--burlesque, as a rule, of local characters and conditions --usually published in his brother's absence; generally resulting in trouble on his return. [5]
We want to think that the characters in a story are real persons. [4]
So with other things,--I shifted them round, and got a set of characters who, taken together, reproduced the chief persons of the village where I lived, but did not copy any individual exactly. [6]
He begs that they will believe him when he says that only such characters as he loves are reminiscent of those he has known there. [9]
But of all these various suspected characters, Pierre was considered to be the most suspicious of all. [2]
The first-named of these stories has revolted many readers by the power with which wicked and exceptional characters are depicted. [14]
In innumerable instances these characters are fully developed only at maturity, and often during only a part of the year, which is always the breeding-season. [1]
But this year there had been a large number of rough, adventurous characters among the river-men, and they seemed to take delight in making sport of, and even interfering with, the salmon- fishers. [11]
It was another theory of hers, that no mixtures of blood produced such fine characters, mentally and morally, as the Scottish and English. [14]
Shall we have, then, no refined characters on the stage? [4]
Its characters shaped themselves gradually as the manuscript grew under my hand. [6]
The similarity of their characters might be followed by the curious into their fortunes. [6]
He says that the world is more complex, varied, and a thousand times as interesting as it was in what we call its youth, and that it is as fresh, as individual and capable of producing odd and eccentric characters as ever. [4]
The story of the two brothers--David Claridge and Lord Eglington--in that book was brewing in my mind for quite fifteen years, and the main incidents and characters of other novels in this edition had the same slow growth. [11]
Thou shalt speak the truth as thou seest it, without fear, in the spirit of kindness to all thy fellow-creatures, dealing with the manifold interests of life and the typical characters of history. [6]
Whether to tell the story of men that have lived and of events that have happened, or to create the characters and invent the incidents of an imaginary tale be the higher task, we need not stop to discuss. [6]
He glanced at the scrawled characters, and it occurred to him that he had intended to change the word dwarf in one line to Caesar, and to keep the third and most trenchant epigram from the emperor. [10]
And so of the people you know; can't you pick out the full-flavored, coarse-fibred characters from the delicate, fine-fibred ones? [6]
At a distance the mass of the Russian people seem as monotonous as their steppes and their commune villages, but the Russian novelists find characters in this mass perfectly individualized, and, indeed, give us the impression that all Russians are irregular polygons. [4]
We can scan the inmost characters of men and can view them in their. [6]
More than this, the first efforts of poets and story-tellers are very commonly palimpsests: beneath the rhymes or the fiction one can almost always spell out the characters which betray the writer's self. [6]
The decline of the family fortunes seemed to have had as little effect upon her as upon her father, although their characters differed sharply. [9]
He rather preferred the East Side to the West Side lines, because they offered more nationalities, conditions, and characters to his inspection. [8]
The novelist knows the deep significance of every article of toilet, and nature teaches him to array his characters for the summer novel in the airy draperies suitable to the season. [4]
The picture of the days and nights she had now spent for weeks with the old lady, presented in vivid characters a mixture of great and petty troubles, external and mental humiliations. [10]
You look at the characters of the really great lawyers! [4]
How delicate were the characters it contained! [10]
They require that the characters in a tale shall be so clearly defined that the reader can tell beforehand what each will do in a given emergency. [5]
His personality pervaded the characters and times which he portrayed, so that there was a discord between the actor and his costume. [6]
Without detracting from the character-drawing, the characters, or the story in 'The Pomp of the Lavilettes', I was convinced that the book would not make the universal appeal. [11]
The hands of the brave, strong Spartan trembled as he seized the roll, and his fixed gaze on its characters was as if it would pierce the skin on which they were inscribed. [10]
She had seen the blossoms stripped from the scanty remnant of her faith in truth and goodness, which had begun to bloom afresh in her heart through the characters of this pair whose marriage procession she had watched. [10]
The truth is, that while the episode, which is the first essential of a short story, was always in the very forefront of my imagination, the character or characters in the episode meant infinitely more to me. [11]
He knows, also, that the characters in the winter novel must be adequately protected. [4]
We have seen that idiots are often very hairy, and they are apt to revert in other characters to a lower animal type. [1]
He said that Thackeray described men from the inside, as it were; through his strong power of dramatic sympathy, he identified himself with certain characters, felt their temptations, entered into their pleasures, etc. [14]
Just so, in talking with any of the characters above referred to, one not unfrequently finds a sudden change in the style of the conversation. [6]
Our admirable jury system enabled the persecuted ex-officials to secure a jury of nine gentlemen from a neighboring asylum and three graduates from Sing-Sing, and presently they walked forth with characters vindicated. [5]
Its characters are supposed to act and talk as people act and talk at home and in society. [4]
Whether or no such characters make them one and the same, who can tell? [9]
In certain characters, such as may be classed with Macbeth, I do not think that Cooper has his equal in England. [4]
If he had stopped with describing these characters we should have been obliged to believe that they exist; that they exist, and that he has seen them and spoken with them. [5]
The hens performed still more difficult feats, for they drew from a wooden box for each spectator a leaf of a tree, on which certain characters were visible. [10]
Out of so small a circle of characters, dwelling in so dull and monotonous an area as a "pension," this wonderful tale was evolved! [14]
Why various characters should have been transmitted sometimes in one way and sometimes in another, is not in most cases known; but the period of variability seems often to have been the determining cause. [1]
The only care should be not to follow fact too closely, for I 'll swear I have met with characters and figures that would be condemned as extravagant, if faithfully delineated by pen or pencil. [4]
I think I shall call it "Reminiscences of Some Pleasant Characters Whom I Have Met," (or should the "whom" be left out? [5]
As fiction sometimes seems stranger than truth, a few words may be needed here to make some of my characters and statements appear probable. [6]
Did you ever see that electrical experiment which consists in passing a flash through letters of gold-leaf in a darkened room, whereupon some name or legend springs out of the darkness in characters of fire? [6]
The family of Seals offers a good illustration of the small importance of adaptive characters for classification. [1]
The writer, I say, becomes acquainted with his characters as he goes on. [6]
We see the same if we watch moment by moment the movement of historical characters (that is, re-establish the inevitable condition of all that occurs--the continuity of movement in time) and do not lose sight of the essential connection of historical persons with the masses. [2]
Because, as he said, he had suspicions--suspicions that my attitude in the matter was not reverent, and that a person must be reverent when writing about the sacred characters. [5]
I know you read the Greek characters with perfect ease, but permit me, just for my own satisfaction, to put it into English letters:-- Aigle pamphanoosa di' aitheros ouranon ike! [6]
You and I read a novel or a poem to help our imaginations to build up palaces, and transport us into the emotional states and the felicitous conditions of the ideal characters pictured in the book we are reading. [6]
This is, beyond question, a bold and presumptuous doubt, inasmuch as many distinguished characters, called men of the world, long-headed customers, knowing dogs, shrewd fellows, capital hands at business, and the like, have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass. [12]
It is this quality which gives vitality to the characters themselves. [11]
It is more probable that the hairiness of the former is due to partial reversion; for characters which have been at some former period long inherited are always apt to return. [1]
Man in all probability owes his beard, and perhaps some other characters, to inheritance from an ancient progenitor who thus gained his ornaments. [1]
This is--what it pretends to be a joint production, in the conception of the story, the exposition of the characters, and in its literal composition. [5]
I will not pretend that I have forgotten all about "The Guardian Angel," but it is long since I have read it, and many of its characters and incidents are far from being distinct in my memory. [6]
The country is precisely as it was when Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were possible characters. [5]
The story-writer's and play-writer's danger is that they will get their characters mixed, and make A say what B ought to have said. [6]
The Catarrhine and Platyrrhine monkeys agree in a multitude of characters, as is shewn by their unquestionably belonging to one and the same Order. [1]
I never heard people talk like the characters in the "School for Scandal,"--I should very much like to.---I say the Master smiled. [6]
For my own part, I cannot see the slightest resemblance between the two characters, and so I told her; but she persisted in saying that Francesca was Jane Eyre married to a good-natured "Bear" of a Swedish surgeon. [14]
She had various other peculiarities, which I brought out one by one, and saddled on to different characters. [6]

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