The analysis of a word, its physiognomy and history, would be to Lambert matter for long dreaming.
Louis Lambert was constantly enduring the strap, and owed it to a peculiarity of his physiognomy of which he was for a long time quite unconscious.
No part of France has a physiognomy more original than Bretagne; none has been marked by nature in a more emphatic manner than this ancient home of the Celts.
The six thousand inhabitants of this quaintly rock-environed place have a physiognomy so distinctly their own as to mark them for a type.
Never will I place faith in a physiognomy again, if hers proves deceptive," cried Beppy.
Twas a physiognomy not easily to be mistaken, owing to the size of the nose, which, besides being enormous, was singularly formed.
It had an air of dash about it which went far towards redeeming the dead level of respectable average which flattens the physiognomy of the rectangular city.
We cannot tell such old women's ages because we do not understand the physiognomy of a race so unlike our own.
Their physiognomy is not adapted to the display of the emotions; the lateral movement of their jaws being effective for alimentary purposes, but very limited in its gamut of expression.
He has carefully studied the physiognomy of the times and given finished portraits of the great men who conducted the march of the revolution.
Pemberton; and he studied with no small interest the physiognomy of the Rev.
The senator fancied that he could trace upon the physiognomyof young people certain signs which marked them out as the special favourites of fortune.
In a fourth, intermarriage had almost completely done its work, and the old Finnish element could be detected merely in certain peculiarities of physiognomy and pronunciation.
But it is their physiognomy that most strikingly distinguishes them from the surrounding peoples, and stamps them as Mongols of the purest water.
The Kirghiz are, ethnographically speaking, closely allied to the Bashkirs, but differ from them both in physiognomyand language.
Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, "With the physiognomy of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.
Physiognomy and phrenology are not new sciences, but declarations of the soul that it is aware of certain new sources of information.
It is supposed that physiognomy is only a development of features already marked by nature.
At the moment of flinging itself into the Dead Sea, the Jordan itself, traversing a muddy soil, changes its physiognomy and colour.
Its physiognomyis remarkable for its peculiarly mild and intelligent expression.
The horned viper (vipera cerastes) is thus named on account of the two horns or protuberances on its forehead, which give it a physiognomy more hideous, perhaps, than that of any of its congeners.
Frequently they convey their thoughts to one another by a play of the physiognomy which Europeans find it difficult to seize.
It arose, perhaps, from the shyness of his character in early youth, that he felt dislike at applying to a stranger even for casual information, without previously glancing at his physiognomy and appearance.
The same remark may be made respecting the type of their physiognomyas of their language; for these stand in a similar relation to those of the other races of Central Asia.
After the Persian it is the Tartar physiognomy that predominates.
His physiognomy presented all the characteristics of the born criminal and of the foolhardy and sanguinary anarchist.
In truth the physiognomyof Tiburcio Arellanos was of no ordinary character, and would have merited observation from one less interested in examining it than was Don Estevan Arechiza.
There was that in his bearing and physiognomy that denoted a man accustomed to command and perfectly au fait to the world.
He was a man of about forty years of age, thin, but rough and vigorous in appearance, whose countenance seemed to tell of dangers overcome, but whose speech was as rare as his physiognomy was expressive.
Bois-Rose reclined in his usual attitude of repose, while his eyes, expressive of deep anxiety, were centred upon the young man, and his noble physiognomy seemed to reflect the clouds which gathered upon the brow of his beloved protege.
Arechiza knew too well how to read the human physiognomy to doubt the truth of Cuchillo's report.
Coming nearer and nearer, whatever favourable impression the first glance at his physiognomy might have made on Kenelm was dispelled, for the expression of his face changed and became fierce and lowering.
Of a physiognomy as grotesque and jovial as that of the monk was savage and funereal, the mere sight of the knight provoked a smile.
His physiognomybetokened imperturbable good-nature, coupled in his instance with a lively sense of justice, a generous heart, and extraordinary skill at his trade.
The splendid edition of Lavater's physiognomy was announced this year (1786) for publication.
The fundamental tone determines the pitch; the overtones determine the quality, tone-color, timbre, or physiognomy of the tone.
The general expression of their physiognomy is a compound of pride, slavishness, and cunning.
The points of their physiognomy are rather cruelly prominent sometimes, even almost to caricature, and they are constantly placed in ludicrous positions.
The whole physiognomy of the land bespeaks the action of slow, uniform, conservative agencies.
The book is diffuse and inconsequent, but it contains many shrewd observations with respect to physiognomy and has had no little influence on popular opinion in this matter.
It is undeniable that there is a national physiognomy as well as national character.
The Swiss have generally no common physiognomy or national character, the aspect of fidelity excepted.
When each apple, each apricot, has a physiognomypeculiar to itself, shall man, the lord of the earth, have none?
Stendhall also speaks of Lord Byron's emotion while listening to a piece of music by Mayer at Milan, and says that if he lived a hundred years he could never forget the divine expression of his physiognomy while thus engaged.
The features may be slightly those of Lord Byron, but the gestures and the general physiognomyare the clever creations of the artist.
