| Walter Scott - Fiction - 1824 - 338 pages
...rather' undersized, he had very broad shoulders, was squaremade, thin-flanked, and apparently combining in his frame muscular strength and activity ; the...under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair — a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth, of uncommon... | |
| Walter Scott - Fiction - 1824 - 334 pages
...office of cook to the party. He was perhaps sixty years old ; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened,...shoulders, was squaremade, thin-flanked, and apparently combining in his frame muscular strength and activity ; the last somewhat impaired perhaps by years,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1824 - 336 pages
...office of cook to the party. He wa? perhaps sixty years old ; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened,...shoulders, was squaremade, thin-flanked, and apparently combining in his frame muscular strength and activity; the last somewhat impaired perhaps by years,... | |
| The Westminster Review.Volume II.July-October,1824 - 1824 - 582 pages
...office of cook to the party. He was perhaps sixty years old; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened,...strength unabated; and, though rather under-sized, ha had very broad shoulders, was square made, thin-flanked, and apparently combining in his frame muscular... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 378 pages
...office of cook to the party. He was perhaps sixty years old ; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened,...under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair— a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth, of uncommon whiteness,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 848 pages
...office of cook to the party. He iwas perhaps sixty years old ; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened,...the first remaining in full vigour. A hard and harsh countenance—eyes far sunk under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair—a wide mouth,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 540 pages
...office of cook to the party. He was perhaps sixty years old ; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened,...under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair — a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teed), of uncommon... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 404 pages
...spoke strength unabated; and, though rather undersized, he had very broad shoulders, was square made, thinflanked, and apparently combined in his frame...under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair; a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth of uncommon whiteness,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 428 pages
...his Kedgauntlet : • — " He was, perhaps, sixty years old; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet black hair was only grizzled, not whitened,...motions spoke strength unabated ; and, though rather undersi/ed, he had very broad shoulders, was square made, thin-flanked, and apparently comhined in... | |
| Literature - 1837 - 598 pages
...Redgauntlet: —" He was, perhaps, sixty years old; yet his brow was not much furrowed, and his jet-black hair was only grizzled, not whitened, by the advance...strength unabated; and, though rather undersized, tic badge that they were lairds as well as lawyers—but which, to use the dialect of the place, had... | |
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