 He was accordingly summoned, and made his appearance, which was equally queer and pathetic. He seemed to be about twenty years of age, of a middling size, with bandy legs, stooping shoulders, high forehead, sandy locks, pinking eyes, flat nose, and long...  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Page 118by Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - 1836 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
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...forehead, fandy locks, pinking eyes, flat nofe, and long chin — but his complexion was of a fickly yellow : His looks denoted famine ; and the rags that...decency requires to be covered — My uncle, having furveyed him attentively, faid, with an ironical expreffion in his countenance, " An't you. VOL. VI.... | |
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