We found four subfuse young men, with complexions shaded from pale coffee-colour to deep sepia, at supper in the dining-room.
Even the complexions of the women were artificial to mask the defects of a sparing use of soap and water, and they drenched themselves with perfumes to hide the unpleasant effects of this lack of bodily cleanliness.
They were of the Mongol type, their complexions dark, hair black, eyes obliquely set, noses flat, and cheek bones high.
Their complexions were dark, and their whole physiognomy revealed the Tartar blood.
The best complexions in the Commonwealth are seen at Hobart and Toowoomba--in fact, there seems to be no really pretty skins at any other places.
It is a dangerous beverage as it is made there, in witness thereof are the clayey complexions and dyspeptic noses of the women.
Assuming diverse complexionssuch as blue and white and red, wearing a black deer-skin studded with stars of gold, he bore on his forehead a third eye that resembled the sun in splendour.
The men that inhabit that island have complexionsas white as the rays of the Moon and that are devoted to Narayana.
Brittany presents a curious problem to be solved in the predominance of dark hair, brown eyes, and swarthy complexions in a region so near England that the atmospheric effects are almost identical.
All the lower rooms were filled with men of the rock, burly men in general, with swarthy complexions and English features, with white hats, white jean jerkins, and white jean pantaloons.
They are in general of fair complexions and handsome features, and in appearance bear no slight resemblance to certain Tartar tribes of the Caucasus.
Women with coarsecomplexions and dull cheeks are good enough for household occupations.
It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarsecomplexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply 750 The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
And at the sound of the first "give and bequeath" she could see all complexions changing subtly, as if some faint vibration were passing through them, save that of Mr. Rigg.
Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.
As day broke and the sun rose, we found the people of both complexions thronging to the road, and seeking, anxiously, the latest intelligence.
Our dark complexions and long beards had aroused suspicions concerning the places of our nativity.
More than half of the colored people of the United States are of mixed blood; they marry and are given in marriage, and they beget children of complexions similar to their own.
At first thought, one would say that life in the steel caves of a Dreadnought would mean pasty complexionsand flabby muscles.
They had the fresh complexions which come from healthy, outdoor work.
The Women very well shaped, though they endeavour to improve their Complexions with Washes and Paint.
The greater part of the Moorish Women would be esteemed Beauties even in England, and as Children they have the finest Complexions in the World; but at Thirty they become Wrinkled Old Women.
Meares expressly says that some of the females, when cleaned, were found to have the fair complexions of Europe.
The smoke has no proper vent in these ill-constructed abodes; it fills the confined air, and tends to darken the complexions of those constantly exposed to its influence.
Of allcomplexions the cull'd sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
Nay, call us ten times frail; For we are soft as our complexions are, And credulous to false prints.
Our eyes are becoming luminous, our complexions and features are changing, and, by Jove!
If the Saxon youth exposed for sale at Rome, in the days of Pope Gregory the Great, had complexions like these children, no wonder that the pontiff exclaimed, Not Angli, but angeli!
I have no doubt that there are certain exceptional complexions to which the purple tinge, above alluded to, is natural.
It is for want of care in the disposing of our children, with regard to our bodies and minds, that we go into a house and see such different complexions and humours in the same race and family.
Went ashore in the forenoon at Port Louis, a little town, but with the largest variety of nationalities and complexions we have encountered yet.
Where dark complexions are massed, they make the whites look bleached-out, unwholesome, and sometimes frankly ghastly.
Keeping that group in my mind, I can compare those complexions with the white ones which are streaming past this London window now: A lady.
They're probably most plebeian and dowdy-looking individuals living in Bloomsbury boarding-houses, with pasty complexions and freckled noses, and they get a percentage on the preparations they recommend.
It seems to me that we ought to take our complexionsmore seriously.
I want you to explain to me about the four complexions as we walk home.
What I can’t understand is, why all the four complexions have so much that is disagreeable in them.
The complexions of some were fair, and of others sunburnt.
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