Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 4W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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cess seemed opened beyond one side of the cell , and each spectral eye turning with a sidelong glance towards it , drew ... eyes , whom they seemed to hail as their minister of cruelty , while with slow and silent paces , it drew near to ...
cess seemed opened beyond one side of the cell , and each spectral eye turning with a sidelong glance towards it , drew ... eyes , whom they seemed to hail as their minister of cruelty , while with slow and silent paces , it drew near to ...
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... eyes shall see her at this hour . Now she takes her seat amidst a circle of offici- ous old hags and dainty waiting dam- sels , whose skill and dexterity are all zealously engaged to call from their grave the dead charms of their mis ...
... eyes shall see her at this hour . Now she takes her seat amidst a circle of offici- ous old hags and dainty waiting dam- sels , whose skill and dexterity are all zealously engaged to call from their grave the dead charms of their mis ...
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... eyes upon such a scene as this ? Sabina has read the precepts of the great master in the art of love , and she ... eye - doctor , the tooth - doc- tor , the clyster - doctor , the foot - doc- tor - each had his own little unap ...
... eyes upon such a scene as this ? Sabina has read the precepts of the great master in the art of love , and she ... eye - doctor , the tooth - doc- tor , the clyster - doctor , the foot - doc- tor - each had his own little unap ...
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... eye - lashes and eye- brows , very similar to the surmé still employed for the same purposes by the Oriental fair . The common mixture was called Stibium ( a slight alteration of the Greek ruu , an eye - brow ) , and it might either be ...
... eye - lashes and eye- brows , very similar to the surmé still employed for the same purposes by the Oriental fair . The common mixture was called Stibium ( a slight alteration of the Greek ruu , an eye - brow ) , and it might either be ...
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... eyes , and other small ornaments of this vessel , are of silver inlaid on the bronze , a fashion very common even in the case of the marble statues of antiquity , al- though not exactly reconcileable with our ideas of simplicity . * But ...
... eyes , and other small ornaments of this vessel , are of silver inlaid on the bronze , a fashion very common even in the case of the marble statues of antiquity , al- though not exactly reconcileable with our ideas of simplicity . * But ...
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