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" ... not very easy to describe. His face was round and plump ; his nose small, not flat like the negroes ; a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and white as ivory. "
Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature - Page 11
by Philip Holden, Richard R. Ruppel - 2003 - 335 pages
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Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

David Bindman - Art - 2002 - 276 pages
...sweetness and softness of an European in his countenance, especially when he smiled' — and further on — 'His face was round and plump; his nose small, not...thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and white as ivory.'36 Friday might have been intended to be a Carib, one of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Caribbean...
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The English Studies Book: An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture

Rob Pope - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 446 pages
...with the man who is to hecome his servant.] His face was round and plump; his nose small, not fiat like the Negroes', a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and white as ivory. After he had slumhered, rather than slept, ahout half an hour, he waked again, and comes out of the...
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Literarisches und interkulturelles Verstehen

Lothar Bredella - Basmakalıp (Sosyal psikoloji), Edebiyatta - 2002 - 466 pages
...the sweetness and softness of an European in his countenance too, especially when äs he smiled [...] His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat like the Negroes; [...]" und seine Farbe ist nicht "of an ugly, yellow, nauseous tawny, äs the Brazilians and Virginians,...
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Automi, termometri, fucili: l'immaginario della macchina nel romanzo inglese ...

Simona Corso - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 205 pages
...tawny, as the Brasilians, and Virginians, and other Natives of America are; but of a bright kind of a dun olive Colour, that had in it something very agreeable;...His Face was round, and plump; his Nose small, not fiat like the Negroes, a very good Mouth, thin Lips, and his fine Teeth well set, and white as Ivory»...
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Goodly is Our Heritage: Children's Literature, Empire, and the Certitude of ...

Rashna B. Singh - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 390 pages
...had in it something very agreeable, tho' not very easy to describe. His Face was round, and plumb; his Nose small, not flat like the Negroes, a very...Lips, and his fine Teeth well set, and white as Ivory. (Defoe 1719a, 205-6) The assumption of the aesthetic superiority of the Caucasian is unmistakable in...
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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe - 1925 - 336 pages
...aurly Aspect, sulky face. and Virginians, and other Natives of America are; but of a bright Kind of a dun Olive' Colour, that had in it something very agreeable,...Lips, and his fine Teeth well set, and white as Ivory. After he had slumber'd, rather than slept, about half an Hour, he wak'd again, and comes out of the...
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Readings from Robinson Crusoe [pt. 1,2] with notes, and engr. from drawings ...

Daniel Defoe - 1886 - 200 pages
...America are; but of a bright kind of a dun olive colour, that had in it something very agreeable, though not very easy to describe. His face was round and...lips, and his fine teeth well set, and white as ivory. 2. After he had slumbered, rather than slept, about half an hour, he waked again, and came out of the...
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supplement to a manual of french composition

152 pages
...America are, but of a bright kind of dull olive colour, that had in it something very agreeable though not very easy to describe. His face was round and...the negroes, a very good mouth, thin lips, and his teeth fine, well-set and white as ivory. DANIEL DEFOE, Robinson Crusoe. 64.** MRS POYSER. Do not suppose,...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 9

Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 434 pages
...vivacity and sparkling sharpness in his eyes. The color of his skin was not quite black, but very tawny. His face was round and plump ; his nose small, not...mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and as white as ivory. After he had slept about half an hour, he awoke and came out of the cave to me :...
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