 | Grant Cochran Knight - American fiction - 1925 - 214 pages
...piece of rich black velvet; a dark shadow defined the delicate nose, and hinted at a thin undecision of lips, whilst a broad touch of white marked the weak but not unbeautiful chin." We do not require a hermeneut to explain to us that an attractive young wife, vague in purpose and... | |
 | Emily Allen - Actors in literature - 2003 - 270 pages
...lamplight made the curious curves of a beautiful ear look like a piece of illuminated porcelain. . . . On the corner of the table lay a book, a well-worn volume in faded red paper cover. It was a novel she used to read with delight when she was a girl, but somehow... | |
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Her hair was blue wherever the light touched it, and it encircled the white prominent temple like a piece of rich black velvet; a dark shadow defined the delicate nose, and hinted at thin indecision of lips, whilst a broad touch of white marked the weak... 