Characteristically, all of Alfred's innovations were firmly rooted in traditional West Saxon practice, drawing as they did upon the three so-called ‘ common burdens ' of bridge work, fortress repair and service on the king's campaigns that all holders of bookland and royal loanland owed the Crown.

This piece of apparently routine work proved very fruitful — it led to the discovery that all the stars of very faint absolute magnitude were of spectral class M. In conversation on this subject ( as I recall it ), I asked Pickering about certain other faint stars, not on my list, mentioning in particular 40 Eridani B. Characteristically, he sent a note to the Observatory office and before long the answer came ( I think from Mrs Fleming ) that the spectrum of this star was A. I knew enough about it, even in these paleozoic days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between what we would then have called " possible " values of the surface brightness and density.

Characteristically, all of Alfred's innovations were firmly rooted in traditional West Saxon practice, drawing as they did upon the three so-called ‘ common burdens ' of bridge work, fortress repair and service on the king's campaigns that all holders of bookland and royal loanland owed the Crown.

Characteristically, the cell's ALU ( i. e. its PE ) in the early versions of GAPP was nothing but a full 1-bit adder / subtractor, which efficiently served both the complex arithmetic as well as logical functions, and with the help of shifts it served also the geometric transformations — in short, it was doing all three types of the tasks ( while other designs used three separate hardware special purpose units instead ).

Characteristically of the play of New Orleans defense all season, the game was decided when cornerback Tracy Porter intercepted a Peyton Manning pass late in the 4th quarter and returned it 74 yards for the winning touchdown.

Characteristically, the well-intended but autocratic Emperor abruptly imposed his reforms without even a semblance of consultation with the population, including the influential urban intelligentsia and other segments of the ruling classes that were highly receptive to such innovations.

Characteristically, those for colored were underfunded and of inferior quality.

Characteristically the issues were not extensive and the " polite fiction " was always maintained that Treasury Notes did not serve as money when, in fact, to a limited extent they did.

Characteristically, they melt above 45 ° C ( 113 ° F ) to give a low viscosity liquid.

Characteristically, sailors on wave boards perform high jumps while sailing against waves, and they ride the face of a wave performing narrow linked turns ( bottom turns, cutbacks, and top-turns ) in a similar way to surfing.

Characteristically, they produce shelf-or bracket-shaped fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows.

Characteristically, the makers of the first Bahnhäusle clocks deviated from Eisenlohr's sketch in only one way: they left out the cuckoo mechanism.

Characteristically, transition metal alkoxides are polynuclear, that is they contain more than one metal.

Characteristically, they feature very little male involvement in sexual acts, which contributes to the voyeuristic atmosphere.

Characteristically, Koirala presents one more instance in which he analyzes the mind of a woman, as he did in most of his short stories and novels.

Characteristically, three (" Silicone Grown ", " My Fault ", " Borstal Boys ") are up-tempo numbers that serve to showcase the liquored-up looseness that the group ably provided Stewart, a looseness he never again would be able to replicate after the group's disbanding and his subsequent move to America in 1975.

Characteristically, she transformed her ‘ mourning ’ clothes into high fashion.

Characteristically, it has the shape of a butterfly and involves the bridge of the nose.

Characteristically, Trevelyan enjoyed writing the work.

Characteristically, he refused invasive surgery to treat his condition, instead being more " interested in finding ways to work around " this limitation.

Characteristically, Bradford juxtaposed scholarly, intellectual writing from philosophers such as Loren Lomasky and Jan Narveson and economists such as Mark Skousen, Doug Casey, Leland Yeager, and David Friedman, with work by virtually unknown, young, and unprofessional writers.

Characteristically, big ( bright ) objects are typically on inclined orbits, while the invariable plane re-groups mostly small and dim objects.

Characteristically, early modern English discourse on Ireland frequently resorted to comparisons with Scythians in order to confirm that the indigenous population of Ireland descended from these ancient " bogeymen ", and showed themselves as barbaric as their alleged ancestors.

Characteristically meditative, he rested on the great central truths of Christianity, and recognized their essential reasonableness and harmony.

" Characteristically, Chekhov's own conscience drove him on the long journey to Sakhalin to record and alleviate the harsh conditions of the prisoners at that remote outpost.

Characteristically and historically, paddy fields are found on the valley floors, with agroforestry in the surrounding hills.

Characteristically these study groups drew on the knowledge generated by the grant programs and from relevant fields and inspired followup grantmaking to implement the recommendations

Characteristically, he went against the grain.

Characteristically 10 cm or more in width, they're often fitted with cable bindings to provide general sturdiness and to make it easier to extract one's feet from deep snow banks, in case it should be impossible to reach the bindings by hand.

Characteristically, when the Arts and Crafts Society began in October 1897 in Chicago, it was at Hull House, one of the first American settlement houses for social reform.

Characteristically, it causes diabetes among its other effects.

Characteristically interdisciplinary, cultural studies provides a reflexive network of intellectuals attempting to situate the forces constructing our daily lives.

Characteristically, Helen's residual knowledge of, and belief in, Roman Catholicism prevents her from taking a real plunge into Messenger's world of values, where science is the universal problem-solver and where religion and also politics are considered as a curse to humankind.

Characteristically he said of his last illness: " I know it would be better to give up the booze, fags and birds, but life would be so boring wouldn't it.

Characteristically she would provide commentary of her own experiences with and knowledge of the subject of the book she was reviewing.

Captain Edmund Blackadder appears in Blackadder Goes Forth, and is an officer in the British Army during World War I. Characteristically reluctant to meet his end in the mud of the trenches of the Western Front, this Blackadder's sole goal is to escape his inevitable fate.

Characteristically, Elizabeth bristled at his presumption, and Sidney prudently retired from court.

Characteristically, however, he told Rundstedt he agreed with him, then sent Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to France with orders to hasten the completion of the Atlantic Wall.

Characteristically, Stalin's reaction was to rage at the world exactly as he had done when his first wife died.

The one ship that escaped managed to do so only because all of Alfred's heavy ships became mired when the tide went out.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

Asser joined several other noted scholars at Alfred's court, including Grimbald, and John the Old Saxon ; all three probably reached Alfred's court within a year of each other.

According to Asser, in his Life of Alfred, the Vikings gave Alfred peace hostages, and " swore in addition that they would leave his kingdom immediately, and Guthrum, their king, promised to accept Christianity and to receive baptism at King Alfred's hand ; all of which he and his men fulfilled as they had promised.

In episodes 14, 16 & 19 he informs the mayor of Alfred's plans of preventing him from making ships that catch all fish of the world.