Neat little heaps of fruit, apexed into "ball-piled pyramids," are guarded by characterful old women, alert and intent, whose heads, coifed with striped kerchiefs, nod a reward to the purchaser with a hearty "Merci, monsieur!"
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
He was an old, hollow-cheeked man, with a drawn and characterful brown face.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois
But I am not presumptuous enough to try to teach these cooks how to make their broth, neither would it come within the scope of these speculations, which conclude thus: The soldier-workman, physically unchanged, mentally a little weakened, but more "characterful" and restive, will step out through a demobilisation-heaven send it be swift, even at some risk!
"Another Sheaf"
John Galsworthy