| 1818 - 590 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! — Great G — ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, hjs shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. ' The different accidents of life are not so changeable... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 pages
...? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! — Great God! — His yellow skin scarcely covered the work...the same colour as the dun white sockets in which thpy were set — his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. " The different accidents of life... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...»kin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneatli ; his hair was of a lustrous hlack and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but...watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour > the duo white sockets in which they were set — his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips,... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and 1 had selected his fentuies as beautiful Beautiful ! — Great God t His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; hut these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pages
...features as beautiful. Beautiful ! — Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of mnscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous...teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but these luxuriances ouly formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 pages
...1 His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful ! — Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; bis hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but these luxuriances... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...beautiful. Beautiful! — Great God' — His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteriei beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; hut these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost... | |
| Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1867 - 656 pages
...proportion ; and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the muscles and arteries beneath. His hair was of a lustrous...flowing, — his teeth of a pearly whiteness : but these only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, which seemed almost of the same colour as... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of...with his watery eyes, that seemed "almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...work of muscles nnd arteries beneath ; his hair was "of a lustrous black, and flowing: bin teeth of i\ pearly whiteness : but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eye?, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled... | |
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