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Updated: June 5, 2025
Never in the whole course of the war had there been such fighting, for the troops upon both sides were picked men and veterans. For a long time afterwards it was the custom of Spaniards and Netherlanders, in characterising a hardly-contested action, to call it as warm as the fight at Zutphen.
I realise that this has an incongruous sound, when applied to such stories as that of the little pig at the stile or of the greedy cat who ate up man and beast. But, believe me, it does apply even to those. For the transmittable thing in a story is the identifying essence, the characterising savour, the peculiar quality and point of view of the humour, pathos, or interest.
What were the contents of that letter? 'Read it, she replied, taking the folded sheet from her pocket, and handing it to me. She had been quite right in characterising the note as an extraordinary epistle. The Honourable John Haddon had the temerity to propose that she should go through a form of marriage with him in the old church we had just left.
Victor Hugo, in one of his romances, speaks of the pensive somnambulism of the animals. 'Somnambulism, sometimes pensive and sometimes playful, is the very phrase I should use in characterising your condition when you first came here and down to your recovery from that strange illness.
Since the establishment of the Raja's government, however, their state has greatly improved, although they are even yet a wretched set of people, having none of the nobler instincts or courage characterising their brethren of the sea.
Now while I'm examining them, watch closely, and see if you do not observe the peculiar curve of the nostril I was speaking to you about as characterising the septentrional species of the tribe. Come away, doctor!" And off trotted the man of science to his library, closely followed by the scarcely less eager dominie.
They had more sense for rhetoric than for poetry, like the Romans; but, like the Romans, they had too high a spirit not to like a noble intellectual stimulus of some kind, and thus they were carried out of the region of the merely prosaic. Their foible, the bad excess of their characterising quality of strenuousness, was not a prosaic flatness, it was hardness and insolence.
You cannot name them. I defy you to name them. They do not exist. The tongue can no man tame. 'Giving of characters' also takes up a large part of our everyday conversation. We cannot well help characterising, describing, and estimating one another.
He had announced at the earliest day characterising the whole business, from that moment, as their "plans," under which name he handled it as a Syndicate handles a Chinese or other Loan he had promptly declared that the question must be thoroughly studied, and he produced, on the whole subject, from day to day, an amount of information that excited her wonder and even, not a little, as she frankly let him know, her disdain.
I can only say they are not mine, I am far too modest to utter any such high-sounding phrase on my own responsibility, but they are the exact terms used by a high municipal dignitary in characterising the result of what he was pleased to term my "chivalrous conduct."
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