She had been admiringly inspecting her small hands, loaded with diamonds; and now, turning round, she again freely scrutinized Beulah, who had been silently contemplating her beautiful oval profile and silky auburn curls.
Her profile was toward Beulah, who stood looking at the regular, beautiful features, and wondering how (with so many elements of happiness in her home) she could seem so discontented.
The form of nose is sometimes known as the busque or curved type, since its lateral profile is in outline markedly aquiline.
In the Red Indian the nose is prominent and its frontal profile is formed by two lines which diverge from the bridge towards the base.
In the midst of these social occupations he gave sittings to a young German-American sculptor named Kuntze, who modelled a profile portrait of him in bas-relief.
Guamani gave us also our finest view of Antisana, its snow-white dome rising out of a wilderness of mountains, and presenting on the north side a profile of the human face divine.
It is a majestic pile of snow, its clear outline on the deep blue sky describing the profile of a lion in repose.
She looked at him closely, with a quick suspicion, but found his profile uninforming; at least of anything needful at the moment.
There they could look over line after line of hills, each a little dimmer as it lay farther into the blue through which they saw it, from the bold rim of the nearest shaggy-sided hill to the farthest feathery profile all but lost in the haze.
Mrs. Bassett twirled her closed parasol absently and studied the profile of the girl beside her.
It was only a profile view that Johnny saw, but he did not need a look at the rest of his face with the other gray eye to be uncomfortably convinced that not much would escape him.
Cliff's profile emerged clear-cut from the dusk as he gazed toward the east.
May's profile was absolutely in repose, but Lady Dashwood could feel that she was pondering over that expression "moral support.
An elderly canon of Christ Church, with a fine profileand dignified manner, stopped Bingham and demanded to know what he was carrying under his arm.
Boreham peered eagerly at his companion's profile to see how she took this criticism of Middleton.
Kate drove, with her father by her side and Carmichael behind, but he found it necessary to turn round to give information of names and places, and he so managed that he could catch Kate's profile half the time.
We enjoy superb, sub-arctic sunsets, with the profile of the city stamped in indigo upon a sky of luminous green.
I can see her now in profile against the open window, her eyes dark with their slumberous fires.
I study my profile with a hand glass, getting the double reflection.
Charles, now admiring the fine aquiline profile of which he was suffered to obtain a perfect view, as Perdita half averted her looks on purpose, though quite in a natural manner.
Rembrandt effect, delineating the faultless profileagainst the obscurity that had already begun to occupy the end of the room most remote from the windows.
Close beside her was an open window, and Abinger came and stood in it, his face in profile to her, staring out into the darkness.
It was a profile and a face worth seeing--the face of a queen who was worthy of her Shakespeares upon the land and her Drakes upon the sea.
A poor medallion with a profile head of him had been clumsily let into the wall.
There is also a profile shade of Mr. Cradock, taken of him only a month before his decease.
Brass rings clashed softly on a pole, a gap opened in heavy draperies curtaining a window, a shaft of street light threw the girl's profile into soft relief.
A gust of wind just then blew aside the thick brown veil that concealed the countenance, and showed for an instant only the strongly marked yet handsomeprofile of Olga Neville.
And the horrified captain, poring over her sad profile with its purpling temple, thought that he never would be able to blot that ghastly vision from his memory.
Suddenly he saw the profile of the dead woman with one eye turned toward him, graciously and malignly, just as the "eye of the morning" must have looked at its mistress while uncoiling her mysterious dances in her Asiatic dwelling.
However, I live in profile as much as possible; I present myself edgewise.
He turned; her profile was towards him, he could not see her eyes.
The blue glare died out behind a black profile of rounded dunes.
As he came upon her now, she stood en profile to the partition, tugging strongly at something embedded in the woodwork close by her side, between her waist and armpit.
Chopin loved the night and its soft mysteries as much as did Robert Louis Stevenson, and his nocturnes are true night pieces, some with agitated, remorseful countenance, others seen in profile only, while many are whisperings at dusk.
I must instanter be frizzled, and have my profile taken.
Footnote 89: A solar system is only a dotted profileof the genius of the world, but a human eye is his miniature.
Arthur moved from the mantelpiece, and sat down in a chair by her side, whence he watched her delicate profile as she gazed into the fire thoughtfully.
Her beautifully shaped head and fine profile always reminded me of the Pallas Athene on some antique gem, and the riding cap with the visor, which she first made fashionable, increased the classical resemblance.
Illustration: Martha Washington From the portrait by James Sharples This is one of the three Sharples portraits of the Washington family and the only good profile of Martha Washington that was painted from life.
