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" He was a comely, handsome fellow, perfectly well made, with straight strong limbs, not too large, tall and well shaped, and as I reckon, about twenty-six years of age. He had a very good countenance, not a fierce and surly aspect ; but seemed to have... "
Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature - Page 10
by Philip Holden, Richard R. Ruppel - 2003 - 335 pages
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Verschlungene Grenzen: Anthropophagie in Literatur und Kulturwissenschaften

Annette Keck, Inka Kording, Anja Prochaska - Cannibalism in literature - 1999 - 362 pages
...or cannibals. He becomes handsome, a European almost, hence mostly white: He was a comely handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd , and as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He had a very good Countenance, not a fierce...
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The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-century ...

Roxann Wheeler - History - 2000 - 384 pages
...description intersperses taxonomic detail with approbation of what Crusoe sees: He was a comely handsome fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong limbs, not too large; tall and well shaped, . . . twenty six years of age. He had a very good countenance, not a fierce and surly aspect; but seemed...
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The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield

Unca Eliza Winkfield - Fiction - 2000 - 202 pages
...handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd, and as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He...good Countenance, not a fierce and surly Aspect; but seem'd to have something very manly in his Face, and yet he had all the Sweetness and Softness of an...
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Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race

J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 311 pages
...handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd, and as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He...good Countenance, not a fierce and surly Aspect; but seem'd to have something very manly in his Face, and yet he had all the Sweetness and Softness of an...
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Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race

J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...darkness of the Africans and the aesthetically pleasing features of the European: He was a comely handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd, and as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He had a very good Countenance, not a fierce...
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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe - Fiction - 2003 - 292 pages
...handsome fellow, perfectly well made, with straight strong limbs, not tixi large; tall and well shap'd, and, as I reckon, about twenty six years of age. He...good countenance, not a fierce and surly aspect, but seem'd to have something very manly in his face, and yet he had all the sweetness and softness of an...
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Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives

Jenny Sharpe - Enslaved persons' writings - 2003 - 222 pages
...Amerindian Friday that appears in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719): "He [Friday] was a comely handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd, and as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He had a very good Countenance, not a fierce...
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Goodly is Our Heritage: Children's Literature, Empire, and the Certitude of ...

Rashna B. Singh - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 390 pages
...Crusoe's referents are all European. It is himself and his race that he norms: He was a comely handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd, and as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He had a very good Countenance, not a fierce...
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Automi, termometri, fucili: l'immaginario della macchina nel romanzo inglese ...

Simona Corso - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 205 pages
...sentimentale, come sentimentale sarĂ  il rapporto che si instaurerĂ  fra i due: He was a comely handsome Fellow, perfectly well made; with straight strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd, and as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He had a very good Countenance, not a fierce...
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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe - 1925 - 336 pages
...handsome Fellow, perfectly well made, with strait strong Limbs, not too large; tall and well shap'd, and, as I reckon, about twenty six Years of Age. He...had a very good Countenance, not a fierce and surly Aspect2, but seem'd to have something very manly in his Face, and yet he had all the Sweetness and...
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