 ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black...  Life of Sir Walter Ralegh - Page 118by Louise Creighton - 1877 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - World history - 1840 - 228 pages
...When I saw Queen Elizabeth," says an author of that period, " she was in her sixty-seventh year, and had in her ears two pearls with very rich drops. She wore false red hair, and was dressed in white silk bordered with large pearls. Over her robe was a black silk... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, we are told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and...little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...fleursde-lis, the point upwards ; next came the queen, in her 5Gth year, very majestic ; her face oblong, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black, and pleasant...little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect to which the English seem subject, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...came the queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majesiic ; hi-r face oblong, eared to have been broken down, to enlarge the opening. After some enquiry, he hooka) : ber lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - American literature - 1844 - 486 pages
...upward. Next came the Queen ; * * her face long and wrinkled, her eyen small, but black and pleasaunt; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black, a defect whereunto the English do seem subject, from their too great use of sugar. From her ears did... | |
 | Henry Mead - Literary curiosa - 1846 - 254 pages
...came the queen, in the fifty-sixth year of her age (as we are told)j very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and...little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect the English seem subject to from their too great use of sugar). " She had in her ears two... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and...hooked ; her lips narrow, and her teeth black; she wore false hair, and that red; and upon her head she had a sir.all crown, reported to be made of some... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1848 - 388 pages
...came the queen, in the sixtysixth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face, oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and...little hooked ; her lips narrow ; and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar.) She had in her ears two... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...came the Queen, in the fifty-sixth year of her age (as we were told), very majestic ; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and...little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1881 - 702 pages
...His description of Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich is worth quoting : " Very majestic, her Face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her Eyes small, yet black and...little hooked, her Lips narrow, and her Teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to from their too great ase of Sugar). She wore false hair and that... | |
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