 She was a brown beauty: that is, her eyes, hair, and eyebrows and eyelashes were dark; her hair curling with rich undulations and waving over her shoulders; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine; except her cheeks, which were a...  Essays on Fiction - Page 385by Nassau William Senior - 1864 - 507 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...our breaths, like persons engaged in an act they felt ashamed in doing.' (Vol. iii. pp. 260, 261.) We are always ordered to admire the beauty of a heroine;...were too large and full, and so they might be for • goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was... | |
 | 1852 - 390 pages
...(she chanced to enter at the opposite side of the theatre at the same moment) at her, and not at him. She was a brown beauty : that is, her eyes, hair,...cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which * Step-mother, rather. t This is a slip of the pen. King William was still alive, and the viscountess... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 524 pages
...(she chanced to enter at the opposite side of the theatre at the same moment) at her, and not at him. She was a brown beauty: that is, her eyes, hair, and...cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which •)• This is a slip of the pen. King William was still alive, and the viscountess had already alluded... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1852 - 378 pages
...(me chanced to enter at the oppofite fide of the theatre at the fame moment) at her,, and not at him. She was a brown beauty : that is, her eyes, hair, and eye-brows and eye-lames, were dark: her hair curling with rich undulations, and waving over her moulders ; but her... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 504 pages
...(she chanced to enter at the opposite side of the theatre at the same moment) at her, and not at hinv She was a brown beauty : that is, her eyes, hair,...chin, they said, were too large and full, and so they BEATRIX. 211 might be for a goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1858 - 492 pages
...(she chanced to enter at the opposite side of the theatre at the same moment) at her, and not at him. She was .a brown beauty : that is, her eyes, hair,...her lips, which were of a still deeper crimson Her month and chin, they said, were too large and full, and so they might be for a goddess in marble, but... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1879 - 482 pages
...(she chanced to enter at the opposite side of the theatre at the same moment) at her, and not at him. She was a brown beauty : that is, her eyes, hair, and eyebrows and «yelashes were dark : her hair curling with rich undulations, and waving over her snoulders ; but... | |
 | New England - 1906 - 968 pages
...well the heart-roses in her cheeks and the youth-light dancing in her eyes! Doubtless you recall that "she was a brown beauty ; that is, her eyes, hair,...as snow in sunshine except her cheeks, which were bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper crimson. Her mouth and chin, they said, were... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1886 - 456 pages
...(she chanced to enter at the opposite side of the theatre at the same moment) at her, and not at him. She was a brown beauty : that is, her eyes, hair, and eyebrows and eyeJashes were dark : her hair curling with rich undulations, and waving over her shoulders ; but her... | |
 | Henry T. Finck - Beauty, Personal - 1887 - 586 pages
...were dark ; her hair curling with rich undulations, and waving over her shoulders " [note that] ; " but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in...and her lips, which were of a still deeper crimson ... a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was the sweetest love-song, whose... | |
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