 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; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost...  Miscellaneous Prose Works - Pàgina 258per Walter Scott - 1853Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1818 - 590 pàgines
...arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...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 pàgines
...arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...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 pàgines
...arteries beneatli ; his hair was of a lustrous hlack and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pàgines
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. " Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pàgines
...was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; but these luxuriances ouly formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes,...his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips." — Frankenstein, vol. i., p. 97, 98. The Monster in " Frankenstein," sublime in his ugliness, his... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 pàgines
...beautiful Beautiful ! — Great God t His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing;...contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of ihe same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pàgines
...arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...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... | |
 | Walter Augustus Gray - 1876 - 184 pàgines
...this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had formed ? The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had devoted myself wholly to this work. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pàgines
...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...set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black Up.-*. The different accidents of life are not BO changeable ns the feelings of human nature. I had... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pàgines
...arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...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... | |
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