Root is correct: the bar has been neatly marked with small Oriental characters, applied with a stamp.

There were even some moments during the sons' birth when the music took on a charming Oriental and pastoral character.

Can it be that Oriental character is slipping from me owing to fact I live so many years among restless Americans?

After a conversion in 1789, only the hexagonal windows show the Oriental character of the former outbuilding.

Artistic tastes of the epoch were often acquiring an increasingly Oriental character.

The taboo of the forbidden room is found in eastern literature, and Barchilon writes that the tale has an "Oriental character".

Inside it is a single sheet of onionskin paper that contains a message written in Oriental characters.

This still retains its ancient Oriental character, though stamped with the touching traces of decline.

Writing filled the screen, blocky Oriental characters and several numerals that might have been serial numbers.

Soviet totalitarianism did not originate with Stalin's Oriental character.