character-sketches

In summary catalogue may be named: lyrics, both delicate and stirring; ballads; romantic dreams and fancies; descriptive poems; sentimental reveries, and idyls; long narratives, in which he displays perfect narrative skill; delightfully realistic character-sketches, some of them in dialect; dramas; and meditative poems, long and short, on religious, ethical, and social questions.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Of course it was to be an Oxford novel full of clever little character-sketches -- witty but not unkind: of subtle and pleasurable hints at our own adventures, for no one had enjoyed Balliol and the city of Oxford so hugely: of catch-words that repeated would bring back the thrills and the laughter -- _Psych.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

Crust_, another of his successes, gave a congenial opportunity to Mr J.L. Toole for one of his [v. 04 p. 0906] inimitably broad character-sketches.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Especially in the early part of the book, we are constantly drawn away front the story by delightful little essays, sometimes read to us by the author himself, -- sometimes wrought into the conversations by playful anecdotes, by effective character-sketches, and vivid scene and scenery-paintings.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

Young men with knobbly and bulging foreheads were turned on by their editors to write character-sketches of the two generals.

The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion 1928

[291] We find some admirably drawn character-sketches of anarchist leaders in the work of Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Smith, Elder, London, 1899, vol. ii, p. 196.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

It is so much a series of essays and sharp character-sketches, however, that the untimely fall of the curtain does not greatly trouble us.

The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

We lack the declamation of Lucan, the apostrophes on the issues of the war, the vivid character-sketches of the generals, the political enthusiasm, the thunder of the oratory of general and statesman.

Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

The eighteenth century essay is so various that it may be accepted as the forerunner of the nineteenth century magazine, with its character-sketches and its brief tales, its literary and dramatic criticism, its obituary commemorations and its serial stories—for what but a serial story is the succession of papers devoted to the sayings and doings of Sir Roger?

Introduction Brander Matthews 1914

His diction is elegant, and his character-sketches finely drawn.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913