Larry she accepted with a hazy, preoccupied politeness, eager always to get back to the more substantial characters of her latest fiction.
Playwrights that know tell me it's one of their most difficult tricks--to get all their leading characters on the stage at the same time.
Well, here's hoping you're good enough playwright to manage your characters so they won't run away from you and mix up an ending you never dreamed of!
I found that Oscar had written out the whole scenario for him and outlined the characters of his drama.
As a matter of fact Oscar did not write a word of the play and the characters he sketched for Smithers and Roberts were altogether different from mine and were not known to me when I wrote my story.
His characters are made of dough; and never was there such a worthless style, or rather such a complete absence of style: he writes like a grocer's assistant.
While this scene was going on, Mrs Crashington and her brother were still seated quietly enjoying their tea--at least, enjoying it as much as such characters can be said to enjoy anything.
Mr. Strachey's method of presenting hischaracters is both masterly and subtle.
Actor and spectator both, the two characters were so intimately blended together in that odd composition that they formed an inseparable unity, and it was impossible to say that one of them was less genuine than the other.
If she is the heroine of the story, he is the hero; but indeed they are more than hero and heroine, for there are no other characters at all.
But his disagreement with the details of Palmerston's policy was in reality merely a symptom of the fundamental differences between the characters of the two men.
The names of the works of a given author; of the authors of a period, or of the characters in a book or play.
Indeed, they instinctively place themselves under the leadership of the decided and dominant characters among themselves.
After that, the time hung heavy upon all our characters who were present, especially as the distinguished gentlemen who had been invited to make a "few remarks" were unusually long-winded and prosy.
Gondremark has thus some of the clumsier characters of the self-made man, combined with an inordinate, almost a besotted, pride of intellect and birth.
A humorous novelist, I should think," and he began to practise divers characters of walk, naming them to himself as he proceeded.
From two such characters might be formed a third worse than any.
The characters of both these men were not very well known when La Bruyère wrote.
Most women have no characters at all,” says Pope in the Second Epistle “Of the Characters of Women.
The story is divided into two parts, one dealing with Lady Jane Grey, and the other with Mary Tudor as Queen, introducing other notable characters of the era.
But you must have plotted this thing long ago, for your play was written, and your characters chosen before we left the city," he remarked.
The efforts to Christianize the Indians are described as they never have been before, and the author has depicted the characters of the leaders of the several Indian tribes with great care, which of itself will be of interest to the student.
The principal charactersin the story include an English gentleman, his beautiful daughter, Lord Howe, and certain Indian sachems belonging to the Five Nations, and the story ends with the Battle of Ticonderoga.
In this, a horticultural study, it answers our purpose to consider chiefly the characters of the fruits.
For the history and a discussion of the horticultural characters of Peento, the reader is referred to page 108.
Hardiness, productiveness and early bearing are the outstanding characters of Wager that give it a high place in the peach-list for New York.
The characters of the peach are set forth on the opposite page by reproducing a description as made at this Station in describing a variety for The Peaches of New York.
All peaches come in bearing so early and bear so regularly that varietal differences in these characters scarcely count in classifying, but productiveness varies very characteristically in different varieties.
The fruits, however, furnish by far the bestcharacters upon which to found a classification of peaches.
The characters found in the stones of the many species of Prunus are of great value in determining species but they help but little in determining the horticultural varieties of any one species.
The characters chiefly used by Onderdonk, as has been said, are fluctuating variations and these do not descend according to Mendelian laws.
In quality the fruits are extra good, the flesh-characters pleasing in every respect.
The most variable of the minor characters is shape, all peaches tending to lose rotundity in southern climates and to become oblong and beaked.
This conception of unit-characters lies at the foundation of botanical and horticultural descriptions and of plant-breeding.
We have rarely met in recent fiction two more thoroughly real and convincing characters than Lady Anne Varney and Wilson the millionaire.
While some of the characters had individual pictures of themselves taken, there should have been large groups photographed as a permanent reminder of the carnival.
We were only carrying out our idea of these characters and had become the chief attraction of the motley procession.
The wedding scene Charactersfor the booth were as follows: Martin Chuzzlewit Sr.
Besides studying the proper characters we were obliged to have a series of tableaux to represent the different episodes in the lives of these people.
Our costumes were the art of perfection and we were a motley crowd of characters from Sairy Gamp to Quilp, from the Pecksniffs to Mark Tapley.
Each night as the procession started it began with our booth and as we passed each booth they would join in the motley crowd of characters until all the booths were in the procession.
It does not require a very lengthened acquaintance with Canada to form observations upon the charactersof the immigrants, as the Webster style of Dr.
On board a packet returning from England, we had several of the leading characters of the United States as passengers.
It had triumphed over a similar revolt in Languedoc, and had shown the world, in charactersof blood and fire, how it utilized its triumphs.
These people were three of the worst characters in the colony, Luke Normington, John Colley, and William Osborne.
A few of Tennyson's characters take the same attitude.
Doubtless the Brownings were not working blindly in giving their poets this heredity, yet in both characters we must assume, if we are to be scientific, that there is a happy combination of qualities derived from more remote ancestors.
Pointing out the faults of his favorite poets, he contrasts their muddy characters with the perfect purity of Christ.
The former, one of the finestcharacters of the times, may be said to have thrown away his life.
They were completely defeated, and Hampden, one of the noblest characters of his age, was shot through the shoulder.
He has a definite scheme, and (but for the fault of creating more characters than he can conveniently manage) tells his simple tale with a mature ease remarkable in a first novel.
To make this state of things still more complicated, Chinese characters are profusely resorted to in the native writings, and are used not only as so many ideographs for words of Chinese origin, but also to represent native words.
The numberless shrines you now find scattered all over Japan are only so many chapters written in unmistakable characters of the lessons our beloved and revered heroes and good men have left us for our edification and amelioration.
This last quality must have been immensely augmented by the linear character of our drawing, and also by the great importance we are accustomed to attach to the shape and the strokes of the characters when we are learning to write.
He wisely left it alone, but less wisely insisted on reappearing in Oxford, against the advice of all his friends, whose characters were lost if the ostracised man were seen among them.
They were made of parchment, and on this parchment was some of the black-letter characters by which his childish attention had been fixed to his book.
Like all true geniuses, he employed his own experience in the production of his works, and drew from the very event of his life some hints or touches to enliven the characters of his imagination.
These charming women survived until our own time: the centre of a circle of the leading characters in literature, politics, art, rank, and virtue.
He generally took away their characters summarily, but on one occasion was frightened almost out of his wits by being called to account for this conduct.
There have been other instances of even educated men delighting in scenes of suffering; but in general their characters have been more or less gross, their heads more or less insensible.
In their enlarged and philosophic minds, in their rapid transition from sense to nonsense, there was an affinity in the characters of Sydney Smith and of Lord Cockburn which was not carried out in any other point.
It is evident that in choosing characters for the infant Roscius of England, his instructors had it more in view to exhibit the boy as a prodigy, than the characters well acted.
From either of thosecharacters Master Payne could not derive the least aid.
Well, father, this at least I must say for you, you seem to be perfectly well acquainted with the moral characters of your fellows.
Footnote 11: Reynolds’s characters are as faithful copies of nature as Woodward’s caricatures of men with heads ten times bigger than their bodies.
In the characters selected by Master Payne there are but four which we can think judiciously chosen.
In Belcour, Charles Surface, and characters of that cast, he excels, and his Liar is acknowledged to be the first on the British boards.
Footnote 10: I allude to such characters as the blubbering droll Tyke.
It is to be lamented his characters are not more general.
The cortège of the sovereigns was extremely numerous, and of the most brilliant description, comprising all the distinguished military characters at present in London.
The crabbed, trembling characters were even more eloquent than the words with which the letter closed.
That was not the name he gave me, but, if I am right, it covers one of the most honest and genial of the strong characters that are fighting the devil and doing good work for men all over the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "characters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cast; chorus; company; ensemble; notation; troupe
