A retentive mind. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Soils retentive of moisture. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Perhaps I simply need to stop being so … "retentive". From Wordnik.com. [CommunityWiki: RecentChanges] Reference
"" Because they're painfully anal-retentive, '' he says. From Wordnik.com. [The Buzz Machine] Reference
He was a good historian, and possessed a retentive memory. From Wordnik.com. [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference
But their memories, from cultivation, are marvellous and very retentive. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Schübler, on absorptive power of soils, 98; on retentive power of soils, 98. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
He has a surgeon's eye for the crucial detail, and monumental retentive powers. From Wordnik.com. [Political Lives: New Senate Boss: A Fish, Er, Frist, Out Of Water?] Reference
My studies had been varied but superficial; my memory was active but not retentive. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His was indeed a green old age; his mind remarkably clear, and his memory retentive. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
The King likes a soil slightly lighter than the best Greening soils, but retentive of moisture. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
After all, family connections counted for something, even with the retentive old trolley magnate. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
He had a really surprisingly retentive memory, and picked up a good bit even in that little time. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Each person, too, in this "Isnád," must have been well known for his good character and retentive memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
He had an ear of great delicacy; he caught up sounds as by instinct; and his retentive memory fixed the impression. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
With a highly retentive memory he retained the results of an extended course of reading, begun almost in childhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Try it, you are very susceptible to every personality; you have a very retentive memory with large formative powers. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
He was irresistibly spell-bound to the spot, though he professed to himself utter ignorance of any retentive influence. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Loving to man, docile, and of a retentive Memory, and Apt or Fit for the performing any Service wherein man employes him. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
I know it's got to end some time, and then this thing I spent so much time at-so much time being anally retentive on-is over. From Wordnik.com. [The Energy Bunny] Reference
It is said that he had a very retentive memory and that he could repeat and write at will long passages from his favorite authors. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
His mental powers were now thoroughly awakened, his mind was quick, his memory retentive, and he soon out-distanced all competitors. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President] Reference
But so much of the information Shann had thus picked up to store in a retentive memory he had not understood and could not fit together. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
By this is meant that plants have not the means of exhausting the water in a retentive soil to such an extent as in a non-retentive soil. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
On first read, Beranbaum comes across like the anal-retentive chef on "Saturday Night Live," but her multisteps are well worth the effort. From Wordnik.com. [Books For Bakers Who Bake] Reference
Still, he was an energetic, active man, with an observant mind, a retentive memory, and with considerable power of systematic arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
This, however, would be useful only where, from the peculiar formation, water is pent up upon a retentive subsoil in the manner already indicated. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
In the great drought thirty-six years ago, we saw, in a very retentive soil in the Vale of Belvoir, cracks which it was not very pleasant to ride among. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Below the surface of the ground there is a body of stagnant water, sometimes at a great depth, but in retentive soils usually within a foot or two of the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
His qualities, from his earliest years were quickness and acuteness, unchecked and insatiable curiosity, retentive memory, and busy reflection; his mind was never still. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
Experience has shewn that its effects are most beneficial on light and deep sandy soils, but that on heavy retentive clays it is without effect, or even absolutely injurious. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
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