For instance, he dilated upon the particular qualities for which Nina herself adored the princess, until it became apparent to her that, after all, Scorpa must be a man of sensitive perceptions.
These qualities were hers, doubtless, from the beginning, but you needn't tell me even she found it as easy to be a princess as it would seem!
I could not but feel all the time I was there that our great Sir Walter was as much to be loved for the qualities of his heart as he had been admired for the high gifts of his intellect and his genius.
It relates to that period of the Crusades in which Richard Cour de Lion evinces his heroism and his cruelty in opposition to the noble qualities of the brave and generous Saladin.
In none of the obviously native work is there any more instinctive feeling for the greater qualities of sculpture than in the gems.
Of her whom he had chosen he ventured to make a prediction: "Endowed with all the qualities of the soul, she will be the ornament of the throne, and in the day of danger she will become one of its courageous supports.
On arriving at Rome he immediately resumed his studies of the old masters, and elicited many expressions of wonder from his Italian fellow-artists for the same qualities which had gained the admiration of the French.
Zealous and well informed on every point of duty, he knew how to estimate those qualities in others, while he held a tight rein over the careless and inattentive.
He was a hardy Northern, skilled in martial science, and was as eminent in those qualities which are required for training up the young battalion as for those which are displayed in manoeuvring the more experienced in the field.
As I did not possess any of the heat-defying qualities of the incombustible Monsieur Chabert, I chose the lesser of two evils, and decided upon occupying the outside place, on which I accordingly took up my station.
Our age especially needs men and women who think in terms of spiritual values, who rise above the measures of pounds and dollars and weigh life by personal qualities and worth.
The fight may give us our chance, however, to aid him to a sense of the greatness of life's conflict, to a sense of the qualities that make the true fighter.
The family stands a practically unchanging factor of personal qualities at the center of our civilization; the family rather than the home determines the character of the coming days.
The qualities that are needed in a world of men and women and affairs are developed here.
How can we help them to recognize the qualities of truth?
Thus may be developed an appreciation of the human qualities that are really admirable.
He was superseded in its command by General Greene, a soldier of great firmness and discretion, great prudence and forethought--qualities the very opposite of those by which his predecessor seems to have been distinguished.
He was the Bayard of the southern youth in the war of the revolution, uniting all the qualities of the famous chevalier, 'sans peur et sans reproche'.
The brigade of Marion combined the qualities of both.
From a distance he supervised operations, with a mathematical keenness of vision, and his mother assumed the responsibility of carrying out his wishes, bringing to the contest all her qualities of vigour, clear perception and crafty dealings.
She was a woman of almost clairvoyant intelligence, instinctive and unerring, and was endowed with rich qualities of heart and brain, which she had never had a chance to use.
No man was more thoroughly gifted in the qualities of manhood and character that lodge in the human heart.
The recipient of such an honor is likely to be the possessor of amiable personal qualities that call forth devotion, even more than the sturdy qualities of talent and ability.
Splendid virile qualities were born in the strife with the Indians and the forest.
For though poor in material things, he was rich in mental wealth, in the qualities that make manhood, in those virtues that survive the mutations of time, that future generations dwell on with ever increasing fondness.
If, in spite of this, Havana still sits like a queen upon the waters, there are some qualities to be found among her people which belonged to the countrymen and subjects of Ferdinand the Catholic.
Like the spaniel, too, if he is denied the chance of developing under guidance the better qualities which are in him, he will drift back into a mangy cur.
The latter was my neighbour at dinner, and insisted much on the fine qualities of the leading persons in the island and the splendid things to be expected when responsible government should be conceded.
My prejudices, if I have any, had not blinded me to the good qualities of the men and women in Dominica.
The generality are mere good-natured animals, who in service had learnt certain accomplishments, and had developed certain qualities of a higher kind.
Life and hope and energy are the qualitiesmost needed.
What would Voltaire have expected for poor mankind had he seen both the precious qualities combined in this new Symbolum Fidei?
While climate points out the most suitable articles of food, it exercises a singular influence over their qualities and properties, more especially in vegetable substances.
Most probably the mandragore had bad qualities to underrate its good ones.
The deleterious qualities of certain fishes have long been the subject of medical conjectures.
Both good and evil qualities are frequently artificial, and arise from peculiar moral and physical conditions.
Ogston states that above four ounces of fluid were found in the ventricles of a drunkard's brain, that had all the physical qualities of alcohol.
The latter species has been divided in cases where the objects that are supposed to be seen have no real existence, and in cases where actual objects have assumed qualities that do not appertain to them.
However, it is more than probable that it is to a certain injurious food that these dangerous qualities are to be referred.
In China this calamity is considered a blessing, a man's intellectual qualities are esteemed in the ratio of corporeal bulk.
So powerful were the supposed qualities of mummies, that Francis I.
If she has not the tact to discover the man of education and breeding by the qualities he displays in intercourse, she shall be brought to admit them by the demands of his self-respect.
I am aware of that, Miss Herbert; but I am also one of those who do not trade uponqualities they have no pretension to.
I can swear it is what I, Potts, would have done by him, or by any other stranger whose graceful manners and pleasing qualities had won my esteem and conciliated my regard.
Fancy his gravely inquiring of himself what remarkable qualities predominated in his nature: was he more of a sculptor, or a politician, or had fate destined him to discover new worlds, or to conquer the old ones?
They call out certain qualities in our nature by which our whole characters become modified.
Some have been great in arms, some in letters, some in statecraft, displaying in successive generations the same high qualitieswhich had won their first renown.
Then determine what qualities the subject has that indicate how such a classification can be made interesting, either by material or treatment.
In fact, we ask, in any given case, does this work do what such a thing is supposed to do, does it have the qualitiesthat such a thing is supposed to have?
List the chief qualities that you find in some historic figure, such as Oliver Cromwell, Louis XIV, Alexander Hamilton.
And he was right when he said it: the willingness to accept a new idea or object if it is worthy, whether it go against the critic's personal desires or not, is one of the great qualities that he will find indispensable.
In addition you will note the qualities of efficiency, of triumphing over winds, of beautiful poise, and smoothness of execution.
In the following examples you will not be aware of dramatic quality in the first but you will find picturesque qualities in both.
If my ideas of the qualities of ideal tennis courts are erratic or queer, my judgment of the individual court will be untrustworthy.
To indicate the qualities necessary to a "best seller.
That it makes only two main divisions is in no way indicative of its completeness; the question is merely, are all the qualities included under those two headings?
To show the picturesque qualities in the gradual action.
Here we stand on safe and sure ground, for the qualities that make excellence in performance are all well known, and it is necessary only that the ear shall be able to detect them.
What common qualities are found in all Stevenson's examples through the selection?
In all these qualities an ideal tennis court would be satisfactory; the question is, is this one.
Qualities I have seen, loved, and admired, are here and there put in as decorative gems, to be preserved in that sitting.
I think her good and noble qualities far outweigh her defects.
The beginning once made, the basis once laid for this companionship, what are the qualities which tend to make it continuously pleasant?
It is these ingredients of the beer which give it the fresh and warm qualities for which, as a beverage, it is chiefly esteemed.
The qualities of seriousness, earnestness, and conscientious faithfulness, which are inseparable from the true theological student, characterize without exception the students of the Chautauqua School of Theology.
Silvia despised this Thurio, for he had none of the fine sense and excellent qualities of Valentine.
By these means the coffee is sent out, ready for use, with all its most excellent qualities clinging about it.
Substantives, for example, are the names of things actually existing, or of qualities of those things.
The cardinal could not drive from his mind the fear he entertained of his terrible emissary--for he comprehended the strange qualities of this woman, sometimes a serpent, sometimes a lion.
Planchet is brave and shrewd; they are two qualities out of the four.
I have at least two of the three qualities you stand in need of, and here I am.
The gentleman appeared to be enumerating all his qualities to his auditors; and, as I have said, the auditors seeming to have great deference for the narrator, they every moment burst into fits of laughter.
Unfortunately," said Athos, "he whom we send must possess in himself alone the four qualities united.
In making an estimate of the man it was the ensemble of his qualities that had to be considered.
The gallant Lowell, who so bravely did his duty and who exhibited in every stage of the battle the highest qualities of leadership, a few hours after his arrival on the left laid down his life for the cause he so valiantly served.
If there were any honest doubts as to the efficiency and fighting qualities of the Potomac cavalry, they were dissipated by the campaign of 1864.
We had here a good opportunity to test the qualities of the Spencer carbines and, armed as we were, we proved more than a match for any force that was encountered.
Indeed, the softer qualities of the feminine heart are often hidden behind an outward austerity.
The firing of a gun, also, often marred the sport of the trapper, and thus it will be seen that to make a successful beaver hunter, required more qualities or natural gifts than fall to the share of most men.
The moral qualitiesof her nature have developed themselves most clearly.
Chauvalon, at Martinique, on vegetables of both kinds, planted at different times in the lunar month, and no appreciable difference in their qualities was discovered.
So, when we wish to teach music, we do not merely address the understanding and explain the qualities of sounds.
The stocks of many celebrated vineyards lose their peculiarqualities by transplantation, and the most famous wines are capable of production only in certain well-defined and for the most part narrow districts.
This genial idiocy, this unexpectedness and inconsequence, are perhaps the most characteristic qualities of his freest humour elsewhere.
When you have learnt to know him well, when you have seen him in his rare moments of leisure and repose, you realize how abundantly he is possessed of those qualities which go to form what is called depth of character.
But even when those qualities are mastered they belong to the rostrum, not to the playhouse.
Perfect equality, unanimity, brotherly love and comradeship were the qualities in vogue on the Rialto in dear old New York during the early eighties.
Though the monarch was greatly rejoiced at the arrival of Cortes in Spain, yet the death of Sandoval caused him much grief, as he had been duly informed of the many excellent qualities of this officer.
This we had repeatedly told the Indians, and they always inquired of us in return if those men would possess the same good qualities as father Olmedo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "qualities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
