Erebus, and has the most mocking and lying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable. His mouth is alive with a kind of working and impatient nervousness, and when he has burst forth, as he does constantly, with a particularly successful... The Cornhill Magazine - Page 332edited by - 1901Full view - About this book
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1897 - 812 pages
...Atlantic before steamships were built, " has one of the most remarkable faces I ever saw. He is lividly pale, and, but for the energy of his action and the strength of his lungs, would seem to be a victim to consumption. His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking, lying-in-wait... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - Europe - 1844 - 238 pages
...an observer in the party. D'Israeli has one of the most remarkable faces I ever saw. He is lividly pale, and but for the energy of his action and the...eye is as black as Erebus, and has the most mocking and lying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable. His mouth is alive with a kind of working and impatient... | |
| Literature - 1852 - 644 pages
...rather a conspicuous object. Disraeli has one of the most remarkable faces I ever saw ; he is lividly pale, and but for the energy of his action, and the...lungs, would seem a victim to consumption. His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking and lying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable. His mouth... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - Europe - 1852 - 568 pages
...an observer in the party. D'Israeli has one of the most remarkable faces 1 eyer saw. He is lividly pale, and but for the energy of his action and the...lungs, would seem a victim to consumption. His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking and lyingin-wait sort of expression conceivable. His mouth... | |
| 1855 - 700 pages
...pockets, served to make him, even in the dim light, rather a conspicuous object. * * * He is lividly pale, and, but for the energy of his action and the...lungs, would seem a victim to consumption. His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking and lying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable. His mouth... | |
| 1855 - 688 pages
...pockets. served to make him, even in the dim light, rather a conspicuous object. * * * He is lividly pale, and, but for the energy of his action and the...lungs, would seem a victim to consumption. His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking andjying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable. His mouth... | |
| r.r. madden, m.r.i.a. - 1855 - 546 pages
...rather a conspicuous object. Disraeli has one of the most remarkable faces I ever saw. He is lividly pale, and, but for the energy of his action and the...lungs, would seem a victim to consumption. His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking and lying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable.... " His... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 550 pages
...rather a conspicuous object. Disraeli has one of the most remarkable faces I ever saw. He is lividly pale, and, but for the energy of his action and the...lungs, would seem a victim to consumption. His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking and lying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable. . . . "... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1876 - 974 pages
...light, a conspicuous object. D'Israeli has one of the most remarkable faces I ever saw. He is lividly pale, and, but for the energy of his action and the strength of his lungs, would seem to be a victim to consumption. His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking, lying-inwait sort... | |
| Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 494 pages
...future Premier. " Disraeli," he says, " has one of the most remarkable faces I ever saw. He is lividly pale, and but for the energy of his action, and the...eye is as black as Erebus, and has the most mocking and lying-in- wait sort of expression conceivable. His mouth is alive with a kind of working and impatient... | |
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