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Example sentences for "physiognomist"

Lexicographically close words:
physikalischen; physiocratic; physiognomic; physiognomical; physiognomies; physiognomists; physiognomy; physiographic; physiographical; physiography
  1. And the physiognomist would not be mistaken.

  2. This fusion of race was notable to the most ordinary physiognomist in the physique and in the morale of Mrs. Leslie.

  3. Such are, however, as important to the physiognomist as the more normal variations.

  4. To detect the peculiarities of the mind by external marks has been the aim of the physiognomist of all times; but it is only in the light of modern evolutionary science that much progress in this direction can be made.

  5. At that gentleman's door; with a face so immovable that it would have been next to an impossibility for the most acute physiognomist to determine what he was thinking about, or whether he was thinking at all; he straightway knocked.

  6. No physiognomist that ever dwelt on earth could have construed Tom's face when he heard these words.

  7. It would have been difficult for the most profound physiognomist to analyze Benilo's feelings, when he saw his purpose, his revenge, foiled.

  8. There chanced to be a great Physiognomist in his Time at Athens, [9] who had made strange Discoveries of Mens Tempers and Inclinations by their outward Appearances.

  9. It is for the physiognomist to examine and ascertain which is the dominant planet.

  10. As the physiognomist paid his respects to the host the Rev.

  11. While the convives were passing through the hall, Mr. Sidney, the physiognomist and expert, seemed disinclined to proceed.

  12. More than one member was seen to cross the floor and interchange a few words with an adversary, the import of which, as he returned to his place, no physiognomist need have doubted.

  13. It would need a better physiognomist than I am to read it.

  14. A physiognomist would have been interested to trace the progress of those thoughts on the eloquent young face.

  15. She was enough of a physiognomist to divine the presence of humour and generosity, combined with a persistent cheerfulness of outlook.

  16. He studied the hair of every person he saw, as a physiognomist studies faces.

  17. He looked at the tall, strong girl before him for a moment or two, and it would have been hard for the best physiognomist to decide just how much of approval and how much of disapproval that look really signified.

  18. He answered, yes, almost: The Physiognomist having permitted him to take a little more with us.

  19. I went down extreamly satisfyed to the Garden, and was beginning to rehearse to my Companion what our Master had taught me; when the Physiognomist came to conduct us to Supper, and afterwards to Rest.

  20. He might have been thirty-eight, perhaps even older than that, but he was one of those men concerning whose age even a physiognomist would be puzzled to decide.

  21. His feelings changed as he looked at her; she was not well; he could see the traces of pain in the languid eyes and the contracted forehead, but whether the suffering was mental or physical even a physiognomist could not have told.

  22. In the three who turned, about half-way up the broad-aisle, into a square pew, a physiognomist would have seen at one glance the characteristic features of each mind.

  23. The story of Socrates and the physiognomist is sufficiently known.

  24. Certainly, few better proofs of the existence of the science have been furnished than that given by the Egyptian physiognomist at Athens in the days of Plato.

  25. Pliny affirms that Apelles could trace the likeness of men so accurately that a physiognomist could discover the ruling passion to which they were subject.

  26. From them I learn what I asserted just now, that nature generally imprints such a portraiture of the mind in the countenance, that a skilful physiognomist will rarely be deceived.

  27. A certain physiognomist asserted of Socrates, that he plainly discovered by his features that he was a rogue in his nature.


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