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Translations characteristically [ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪkəlɪ] ADV → característicamente, de modo característico he was in characteristically jovial mood → como es típico de él, estaba de muy buen talante characteristically [ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪkli] adv [modest, optimistic, robust] → typiquement (= as usual) → comme à son habitude (= predictably) → comme on pouvait s'y attendre characteristically adv → typisch characteristically [ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪk/əlɪ] adv → tipicamente characteristically [ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪk/əlɪ] adv → tipicamente How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This question disposed of, Kate communicated her uncle's desire about the empty house, to which Mrs Nickleby assented with equal readiness, characteristically remarking, that, on the fine evenings, it would be a pleasant amusement for her to walk to the West end to fetch her daughter home; and no less characteristically forgetting, that there were such things as wet nights and bad weather to be encountered in almost every week of the year. For while those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most pugnacious of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter; excepting those wondrous grey-headed, grizzled whales, sometimes met, and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a penal gout. My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession. |
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