A long pause, another rustle, then, "Know you what qualities a falconer must possess, my heart?"

In his heyday he was regarded as an amazing artist, possessed of a beautiful, natural and flawless technique that gave his concerts a unique quality.

What is the greatest quality humans possess?

It suggested that the Tezumen, whatever sterling qualities they possessed, were not traditionally inclined to welcome perfect strangers and heap them with jewels.

"Mine seem to have lost that quality of coldness they once possessed," he said.

That quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force.

The moment would have been emphemeral, a parlor trick at sea, yet Oelrichs, like the fish he challenged, possessed his own qualities of myth.

Dolores raised her 24-year-old daughter to have perspective - a quality not all parents of elite athletes possess.

During the conference at Yalta, I perhaps more clearly than at any time before understood what exceptional qualities this man possessed.

What's missing is that ineffable quality possessed by compelling men everywhere, the charm of command.