Trait

Examples

• Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I sought in her countenance and features a likeness to Mr. Rochester, but found none: no trait, no turn of expression announced relationship. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The latter trait shows how little better they are than the donkeys they eat and sleep with. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He certainly had one trait that all men must have who want to succeed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Lucy can just tell Madame Beck this little trait: it is only fair to let her know what she has to expect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But abstraction is an indispensable trait in reflective direction of activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It's a very pleasant trait in a young man's character, very much so,' added Mr. Pell, smiling smoothly round, as he buttoned up the money. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• That was the most remarkable trait in his demeanour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Yet, after this programme of dress, Bacon adds the beautiful trait, 'that he had a look as though he pitied men. Plato. The Republic.
• Every faculty of mind, every noble trait of human nature, every high occupation which men engage in, seems represented by a famous name. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He is very accurate, and particular about the truth--a good trait, though you call him 'fussy'. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This was a trait of Miss Brooke's asceticism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This trait of kindness moved me sensibly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The trait of which I am speaking, I replied, may be also seen in the dog, and is remarkable in the animal. Plato. The Republic.
• Surely my chance meeting with him on the moor has disclosed another favourable trait in his character? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That man has some noble traits, he said to himself as he noticed this; he is moved by the wrongs of his country. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• From these two traits we derive our standard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For he does not become acquainted with the traits that mark off opinion and assent from authorized conviction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He had the shorter nose and longer upper lip of his sister rather than the fine traits of his brother. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Clemenceau, nothing in America stronger and wiser than President Wilson, and nothing in Britain to steady the Keltic traits of Mr. Lloyd George. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was curious to trace in this miniature model the very traits of its father. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This face, potent in the majesty of its traits, shed down on her hope, fondness, delight. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And these two traits are precisely what characterize the democratically constituted society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Does not the apparition make vividly manifest the obtuse mould of my heavy traits? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• These two traits, in addition to the chemical composition of the wood itself, give it the fire retardance quality. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Traits of Individual Method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Embyronic growth of the human infant preserves, without doubt, some of the traits of lower forms of life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And these traits are just what is meant by having an aim or a purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His love of conversation, his affection, his indifference to riches, even his garrulity, are interesting traits of character. Plato. The Republic.

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