 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; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness;...  The Quarterly Review - Page 3781818Full view - About this book
 | 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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 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 muscles...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, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful ! Great God ! obert his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. The different accidents of life are not so changeable... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 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... | |
 | 1818 - 586 pages
...describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form ? His limbs were...and flowing ; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but thesfe luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that geemed almost of the... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 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 muscles...with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein (Fictitious character) - 1891 - 348 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful ! — Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the .work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. The different accidents of life are not so changeable... | |
 | Margaret Armour - Fiction - 1898 - 222 pages
...limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful !— Great God 1 His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. The different accidents of life are not so changeable... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 532 pages
...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...horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed of almost the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion,... | |
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