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... Chin , the Animals , 2 , 29 , 30 Choir , the Village Ages of 70 Clock - face Eyes of 92 Colour of Eyes Cheeryble Brothers Children PAGE 34 , 352 352 - 283 4 , 29 , 393 162 , 183 , 184 193 , 194 4 79 , 80 , 82 , Heads 246 83 , 84 , 283 ...
... Chin , the Animals , 2 , 29 , 30 Choir , the Village Ages of 70 Clock - face Eyes of 92 Colour of Eyes Cheeryble Brothers Children PAGE 34 , 352 352 - 283 4 , 29 , 393 162 , 183 , 184 193 , 194 4 79 , 80 , 82 , Heads 246 83 , 84 , 283 ...
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... chin , it was one of Love's favourite haunts , From its dimple he could not get loose ; Though now the neat hand of a barber it wants , Or a singe , like the breast of a goose ! " How rich were those locks , so abundant and full , With ...
... chin , it was one of Love's favourite haunts , From its dimple he could not get loose ; Though now the neat hand of a barber it wants , Or a singe , like the breast of a goose ! " How rich were those locks , so abundant and full , With ...
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... chin is narrow , the neck small . The manners are conciliatory and obliging . Warmth , and energy are imparted to all that is done . " Why should a man whose blood is warm within , Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? " They are ...
... chin is narrow , the neck small . The manners are conciliatory and obliging . Warmth , and energy are imparted to all that is done . " Why should a man whose blood is warm within , Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? " They are ...
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... night is beginning to lower , Comes a pause in the day's occupations , That is known as the Children's Hour . " I hear in the chamber above me The patter TEMPERAMENTS 29 Angels, Footsteps -13, 14 10-12 Smiles 263 Chin, Animals,
... night is beginning to lower , Comes a pause in the day's occupations , That is known as the Children's Hour . " I hear in the chamber above me The patter TEMPERAMENTS 29 Angels, Footsteps -13, 14 10-12 Smiles 263 Chin, Animals,
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... chin , neck ( in front , behind , and at the sides ) , complexion , and general pose of the Head . Finally , as indi- vidualizing the stranger at our inquisitorial bar , we may sum up his , or her , totality of personal characteristics ...
... chin , neck ( in front , behind , and at the sides ) , complexion , and general pose of the Head . Finally , as indi- vidualizing the stranger at our inquisitorial bar , we may sum up his , or her , totality of personal characteristics ...
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animals Beard beauty betokens body bone brain character characteristic Charles Dickens Charles Lamb Charlotte Corday cheeks chin colour countenance denotes disposition Dombey and Son ears Empress Eugénie endowed English expression eyes face fact faculty famous feet Fingers forehead Gall give grey habit Hand head heart human indicates individual instance instinct James Quin jaws Jehonadab John Brown's body Julius Cæsar lady laugh less likewise Lips lived look Lord Brougham Lord Crawford Lord Tomnoddy manner matter Max O'Rell ment mental mind mouth Nails nature neck Nervous never Nose observed organ palm person Phrenologists Physiognomy poets possessed red Hair remarkable Roman round says séance seen sense Shakespeare shape skull smell sneeze Snub soul Spatulate square sucking Teeth tell Temperament thee thick thing Thomas Hood thought Thumb tion Voice walk wear whilst woman women Wrinkles
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Page 29 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 13 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I. Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
Page 61 - My father lived at Blenheim then, yon little stream hard by; they burnt his dwelling to the ground, and he was forced to fly: so with his wife and child he fled, nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 197 - Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least— at least I mean what I say — that's the same thing, you know.
Page 97 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Page 263 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 265 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 8 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth...
Page 31 - For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given [us] for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
Page 4 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...