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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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The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language

Sherwin Cody - Authorship - 1903 - 136 pages
...wool; his forehead was very high and large; and the color of his skin was not quite black, but tawny. His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat like that of negroes; and he had fine teeth, well set, and as white as ivory. 29. Never man had a more faithful,...
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The Works of Daniel Defoe: The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier - 1903 - 384 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 plump ; his I nose small, not flat like the negroes ; a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set,...
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe - 1904 - 266 pages
...his skin was not black, but of a dun olive-color, that had in it something very agreeable, though not easy to describe. His face was round and plump ; his nose small, and he had a very good mouth, and fine teeth as white as ivory. After he had slumbered about half-an-hour,...
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The Works of Daniel Defoe...: The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe - 1905 - 394 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. After he had slumbered, rather than slept, about half-an-hour, he waked again, and comes out of the...
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The Children's Hour: Stories from seven old favorites

Eva March Tappan - Children's poetry - 1907 - 494 pages
...America are, but of a bright kind of a dun olive color, 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. After he had slumbered, rather than slept, about half an hour, he waked again, and comes out of the...
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The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Part 2

Daniel Defoe - Castaways - 1908 - 248 pages
...America are, but of a bright kind of a dun olivecolour, that had in it something very agreeable, though not very easy to describe. His face was round and...Negroes; a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well-set, and as white as ivory. After he had slumbered, rather than slept, about half an hour, he...
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Works, Volume 1

Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 404 pages
...in it something very agreeable, though not very easy to describe. His face was round and plump ; hw nose small, not flat like the negroes ; a very good...lips, and his fine teeth well set, and white as ivory. After he had slumbered, rather than slept, about half-an-hour, he waked again, and comes out of the...
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Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 3

Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...vivacity and sparkling sharpness in his eyes. The color of his skin was not quite black, and 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 ht had slept about half an hour, he awoke and came out of the cave to me:...
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Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe - Castaways - 1911 - 448 pages
...America are, but of a bright kind of a dun olive color, 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. After he had slumbered, rather than slept, about half an hour, he waked again, and comes out of the...
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English Grammar and Composition

Larkin Dunton, Augustus Hill Kelley - English language - 1911 - 356 pages
...nauseous tawny, but of a bright kind of a dun olive-color, that had something very agreeable, though not very easy to describe. His face was round and...Negroes; a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well-set, and as white as ivory. 87. STUDY OF PERSONAL DESCRIPTION. Here we have Defoe's description...
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