| Philip Gibbs - 1910 - 472 pages
...and pink. White as the snow, or as the foam of the wave, was her side ; long was it, slender, and as soft as silk. Smooth and white were her thighs; her...straight as the rule of a carpenter. Her feet were slim ; evenly set were her eyes ; her eyebrows were of a bluishblack, such as you see upon the shell of... | |
| Walter Clyde Curry - Beauty, Personal - 1916 - 156 pages
...cit. p. 105 ; Voigt, op. cit. pp. 61, 49. In 0. Fr. women with great forcheures are ugly. 1 Comp. " Smooth and white were her thighs ; her knees were...ankles were as straight as the rule of a carpenter," Leahy, I. p. 13. 8 Comp. " her legs were large and bony. And her figure was very thin and spare, except... | |
| Catholic literature - 1926 - 916 pages
...white were her wrists; her fingers long and of great whiteness; her nails were beautiful and pink. Her feet were slim and as white as the ocean's foam;...eyes; her eyebrows were of a bluish black such as ye have seen upon the shell of a beetle. ... It seemed to them she must be one of these who have come... | |
| Walter Clyde Curry - Literary Criticism - 1916 - 144 pages
...cit. p. 105 ; Voigt, op. cit. pp. 61, 49. In O. Fr. women with great forcheures are ugly. * Comp. " Smooth and white were her thighs ; her knees were...ankles were as straight as the rule of a carpenter," Leahy, I. p. 13. * Comp. " her legs were large and bony. And her figure was very thin and spare, except... | |
| Catholic literature - 1927 - 924 pages
...white were her wrists; her fingers long and of great whiteness; her nails were beautiful and pink. Her feet were slim and as white as the ocean's foam;...eyes; her eyebrows were of a bluish black such as ye have seen upon the shell of a beetle. ... It seemed to them she must be one of these who have come... | |
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