 The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam...  Heroines of Fiction - Page 168by William Dean Howells - 1901 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1850 - 320 pages
...glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,...grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, hi the antique interpretation of the term, than... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 328 pages
...glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,...the manner of the feminine gentility of those days ; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Adultery - 1852 - 268 pages
...glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,...belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady -like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain... | |
 | Nathaniel [two or more stories] Hawthorne - 1866 - 596 pages
...glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,...the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American fiction - 1875 - 624 pages
...it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful troni regulirity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness...grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Adultery - 1878 - 324 pages
...glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,...grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 312 pages
...glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,...eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of the feraiuine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 306 pages
...glossy that it threw off the sunshine witli a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,...grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Pryime appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...feature and richness of 180 complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep-black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of...indescribable grace which is now recognized as its indica- 185 tion. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1883 - 656 pages
...glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,...grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than... | |
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