 | Lady Augusta Hamilton - Marriage customs and rites - 1822 - 538 pages
...have written rules on the subject, and a Candayan courtier, well versed in the subject,, says, • • Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of the...eyes, the blue sapphire and the petals of the blue manillarflower. Her nose should be like the bill of the hawk; her lips should be bright and red, like... | |
 | 1824 - 596 pages
...tail of the peacock: — long, reaching to th knees, and terminating in graceful curls : her eyebrows resemble the rainbow ; her eyes, the blue sapphire, and the petals of the blue manilla-flower. Her nose is like the bill of the hawk ; her lips, bright and red. like coral on the... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...to me hy a Kandyan courtier, well versed and deeply read in such matters : — ' Her hair should he voluminous, like the tail of the peacock, long, reaching...the knees, and terminating in graceful curls; her eyehrows should resemhle the rainhow; her eyes, the hlue sapphire and the petails of the hlue manilla-flower.... | |
 | Anthologies - 1834 - 506 pages
...they were enumerated to me by a Kandyan courtier, well versed and deeply read in such matters : — " Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of the...eyes, the blue sapphire and the petals of the blue manilla-flower. Her nose should be like the bill of the hawk ; her lips should be bright and red, like... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Africa - 1837 - 388 pages
...versed in the attributes of an Eastern Venus : — ' Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of a peacock — long, reaching to the knees, and terminating...eyes the blue sapphire, and the petals of the blue manilla-flower ; her nose should be like the bill of the hawk.; her lips should be bright and red,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1850 - 248 pages
...Eastern Venus : — " Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of a peacock — long, reaching te the knees, and terminating in graceful curls ; her...eyes the blue sapphire, and the petals of the blue manilla-flower ; her nose should be like the bill of the hawk; her lips should be bright and red, like... | |
 | John Kennedy - Ethnology - 1851 - 318 pages
...Davy learned from a Kandian courtier. "Her hair," he said, "should be voluminous like the tail of a peacock, long, reaching to the knees, and terminating...eyes the blue sapphire, and the petals of the blue manillu flower ; her nose should be like the bill of the hawk ; her lips should he bright and red,... | |
 | Alastair Mackenzie Ferguson - Sri Lanka - 1869 - 286 pages
...supplied to the late Dr. Davy by a Kandian chief: — Her hair should bo voluminous, like the tail of th.3 peacock, long, reaching to the knees, and terminating...; her eyes the blue sapphire and the petals of the Manilla flower. Her nose should be like the bill of the hawk. Her lips should be bright and red, like... | |
 | Rudolf Virchow - Ethnology - 1888 - 166 pages
...the Albinos light blue or red. To be sure, in the poetic description of an ideal Kandy beauty given, "eyes, the blue sapphire and the petals of the blue manilla flower" are considered desirable, but this can hardly be said to refer to a typical peculiarity. Nowhere is... | |
 | John Ferguson - Agriculture - 1893 - 560 pages
...be gathered from the following description supplied to the late Dr. Davy by a Kandian chief : — " Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of the...; her eyes the blue sapphire and the petals of the manilla flower. Her nose should be like the bill of the hawk. Her lips should be bright and red, like... | |
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Her hair should be voluminous, like the tail of the peacock,; long, reaching to the knees, and terminating in graceful curls; her eyebrows should resemble the rainbow; her eyes, the blue sapphire and the petals of the blue manillaflower. Her nose should... 
