 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1897 - 876 psl.
...that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full,...mouth was as clearly cut as the point of a spear.' A more thoughtful and suggestive piece of work is the portrait of Clym Yeobright, which serves as a... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1878 - 978 psl.
...formed, with almost geometric precision, the curve so well known in the arts of design as the cyma recta, or ogee. The sight of such a flexible bend as that...was only blunted when she was given over to sudden tits of gloom one of the phases of the night side of sentiment which she knew too well for her... | |
 | Charles Francis Blackburn - 1893 - 172 psl.
...that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were th'e lines of her lips that, though full,...mouth was as clearly cut as the point of a spear. She had Pagan eyes, full of noeturnal mysteries. . . . Her presence brought memories of such things... | |
 | Charles Francis Blackburn - 1893 - 168 psl.
...that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full, each corner of her mouth was aa clearly cut as the point of a spear. She had Pagan eyes, full of nocturnal mysteries. . . . Her... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1898 - 392 psl.
...that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full,...of sentiment which she knew too well for her years. a dim light, and with a slight rearrangement of her hair, her general figure might have stood for that... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1901 - 334 psl.
...that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full,...blunted when she was given over to sudden fits of gloom, 183 one of the phases of the night-side of sentiment which J, she knew too well for her years. " St^... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1903 - 356 psl.
...as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full, each comer of her mouth was as clearly cut as the point of a...sentiment which she knew too well for her years." In this portrait the whole passionately selfish drama of the woman is suggested. Wildeve, a strange,... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1903 - 350 psl.
...that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full, each comer of her mouth was as clearly cut as the point of a spear. This keenness of comer was only blunted... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 534 psl.
...that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full,...well for her years. Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnights; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 328 psl.
...that such lipcurves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. So fine were the lines of her lips that, though full,...mouth was as clearly cut as the point of a spear, The keenness of corners was only blunted when she was given over to sudden fits of gloom, one of the... | |
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It was felt at once that that mouth did not come over from Sleswig with a band of Saxon pirates whose lips met like the two halves of a muffin. One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten... 
