All his companions repeated his question in a low, singing tone, touching their amulets, and raising their whitened visages toward the interlaced branches and vines.
Of the visages of things--And of piercing through to the accepted hells beneath.
His face brought powerfully to my mind some of those uncouth visages of saints and abbots which are occasionally seen in the niches of the walls of ruined convents.
For from this eminence ye shall discern Better the acts and visages of all, Than in the nether vale among them mix'd.
Then I: "The visages of all I scan Yet none of ye remember.
Well I descried the whiteness on their heads; But in their visages the dazzled eye Was lost, as faculty that by too much Is overpower'd.
The sunshine came through the window between the heavy festoons of two faded damask curtains and fell directly across this vase, so that a mild splendor was reflected from it on the ashen visages of the five old people who sat around.
But still good Mr. Hooper sadly smiled at the pale visages of the worldly throng as he passed by.
An approving murmur followed, and the clergyman, having given out a hymn, took his seat with much self-congratulation, and endeavored to read the effect of his eloquence in the visages of the people.
The visages suited the garments, wearing a sedate or severe expression, whether the cast of the features above the broad white collars were broad and ruddy, or pale and hollow-cheeked.
The different emotions on many visagesmade the scene curious.
He walked in trepidation, speechless, and when interrogated on the height his eyes flew across the angry visages with dismal uncertainty.
The victims of his fiendish passions seemed to fleet, one by one, before his eyes, with deathlike visages and ghastly menace.
The women are of hideous aspect; their breasts hang down to the navel; their bellies are extremely prominent; their arms and limbs are small; and in their visages they resemble so many apes.
Palafox assures us that the Chinese are more fair than the oriental Tartars; that they have also less beards, but that in every other respect their visages are nearly the same.
Of the latter, he says, their visages are large and complexions rather yellow; their noses broad, and generally compressed, and their bodies are of a thickness greatly resembling that of a Hollander.
They were square or strong chested, with short thick necks, and large broad visages which were for the most part rather flat.
The women, were generally short, the visages of the younger ones tolerably good but * * * the very reverse was the case with the dames of more advanced age.
But the same flash that revealed this spectacle, disclosed also the wild figures and hostile visages of the men of Cortes, rushing to the assault, and sending forth a shout, that made the whole town ring and tremble to its foundations.
He noted, too, the eager, cruel visages of those around, who seemed to hang upon his answer.
They stopped short, reining in their horses cruelly, lest they should accidentally make that one step forward, and their fierce shaggy visages seemed petrified with the terror that was in them.
Haslam was as brave a man as ever lived, yet at that moment, gazing at the deadly muzzles and the scowling, shaggy visages behind them, well might he have quailed, for his peril was great indeed.
Quasimodo was deaf but his sight was clear, and the public fury was no less energetically depicted on their visages than in their words.
Among the thousands of visages which that light tinged with scarlet, there was one which seemed, even more than all the others, absorbed in contemplation of the dancer.
He shut his eyes, and when he opened them again, he thought they were a circle of palevisages gazing at him.
A legion of fantastic visages galloped through his head to the rustle of infernal wings, and the ravishing smile of the lovely lady pricked him to the heart like the point of a poniard.
Those visages reddened by the inclement air, those pitiful bent or twisted limbs, the swollen or enfeebled flesh, the dull eyes, already dead, are painful to behold.
They heard a different tale, moreover, from the other voyagers, whose wan and sallow visages provoked the bitter jest, that they had returned with more gold in their faces than in their pockets.
They were brought before the sovereigns, with their limbs heavily manacled, their beards descending to their waists, and their sallowvisages emaciated by captivity and famine.
He gave but little heed to this spectacle, nor did he scarcely note that among the many human corses which strewed the lower part of the garden, there were several with the visages of Spaniards.
There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool.
There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.
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