Each promise touches the characteristic trait of the group spoken of.

It summed up what they regarded as Roosevelt's most characteristic trait.

Fondness of society is a characteristic trait in Chopin's mental constitution.

On our very arrival in the Chesapeake river, I came across a characteristic trait.

It must, in truth, be called a particularly characteristic trait.

The characteristic trait was threaded throughout much of his career.

Bessie had, however, inherited another characteristic trait of her father's.

One characteristic trait in her conduct is worth mentioning.

Her most characteristic trait is a keening or wailing with mournful, eerie or spine-chilling qualities.

This is a characteristic trait of the Duke of Wellington's way of getting through, business.

The Spaniards' characteristic trait was a certain passiveness.

An anecdote given by Sir Henry Wotton offers a characteristic trait of Charles and his favourite:-

Miss Burney relates a characteristic trait of this nobleman; it was related to her by Miss Monckton.

The characteristic trait of Margaret, to which all her talents and acquirements were subordinate, was sympathy,-universalsympathy.

None of our statesmen, with whom reform has been a characteristic trait, was more devoted or happy.

The amazement with which any attention to dress is regarded in a lodging-house is a very characteristic trait.