Yes, I suppose he's a type. Dress clothes every evening; knows the ropes; calls every policeman and waiter in town by their first names.
He was a type, and to drop him would be an error--a typograph--but no!
The same thing holds good of Dithyrambs and Nomes; here too one may portray different
types, as Timotheus and Philoxenus differed in representing their Cyclopes.
As I say, it is a very gracious, tender type. She has her brother with her, who is a beautiful, fair-haired, gray-eyed young Englishman.
I am much interested in the study of national types; in comparing, contrasting, seizing the strong points, the weak points, the point of view of each.
This
type must not be regarded as a fanciful figure: it is not a nebulous hope which is to be realised at some indefinitely remote period, thousands of years hence; nor is it a new species (in the Darwinian sense) of which we can know nothing, and which it would therefore be somewhat absurd to strive after.
There is the same
type of antithesis in both cases; for just as blindness is opposed to sight, so is being blind opposed to having sight.
"That's the
type of young soldier who's going to carry us through, if any one can," Major Thomson agreed cheerfully.
The priest is still, and will, we think, remain, one of the necessary
types of humanity; and he is untrue to his
type, unless, with whatever inevitable doubts in this doubting age, he feels, on the whole, the preponderance in it of those influences which make for faith.
Intermarriages (arranged by the Priests) between the sons and daughters of these more intellectual members of the lower classes generally result in an offspring approximating still more to the
type of the Equal-Sided Triangle.
There are, broadly speaking, two
types of drinkers.
On the Succession of the same
Types within the same areas, during the later tertiary periods.