By my
retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi.
Elton should not be really in love with her, or so particularly amiable as to make it shocking to disappoint himthat Harriet's nature should not be of that superior sort in which the feelings are most acute and
retentive and that there could be no necessity for any body's knowing what had passed except the three principals, and especially for her father's being given a moment's uneasiness about it.
It is evident that men incline to call those conditions habits which are of a more or less permanent type and difficult to displace; for those who are not
retentive of knowledge, but volatile, are not said to have such and such a 'habit' as regards knowledge, yet they are disposed, we may say, either better or worse, towards knowledge.
So far indeed did his information extend, and so acutely
retentive was his memory, that he was supposed to be the only man who could have told you who Julius Beaufort, the banker, really was, and what had become of handsome Bob Spicer, old Mrs.
with all her reasoning, she found, that to
retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
The duchess begged Don Quixote, as he seemed to have a
retentive memory, to describe and portray to her the beauty and features of the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, for, judging by what fame trumpeted abroad of her beauty, she felt sure she must be the fairest creature in the world, nay, in all La Mancha.
The memory is sometimes so
retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!
There lie the impressions on the
retentive organ, though you knew it not.
Nor was it more
retentive of its ancient state, within; for entering the dreary hall, and glancing through the open doors of many rooms, they found them poorly furnished, cold, and vast.
Thus to have a
retentive memory, and to proceed by "the book," are points commonly regarded as the sum total of good playing.
He played the genius Go Yeon-woo who has a
retentive memory.
It also has two automated reprocessing machines and a dialysis water treatment system with an endoxin
retentive filter from EG Healthcare to ensure high quality dialysis water.