Not so the mother, she threw herself on the earth, and receiving the cold and ghastly head into her lap, she sat contemplating those muscular
features, on which the death-agony was still horridly impressed, in a silence far more expressive than any language of lamentation could have proved.
``Go to, knave, how so?'' said Cedric, his
features prepared to receive favourably the expected jest.
The youth saw his
features wrathfully red, and saw him make a dab with his sword.
There are no
features to this land, no conspicuous, far-famed landmarks for the eye; there is nothing so far down to tell you of the greatest agglomeration of mankind on earth dwelling no more than five and twenty miles away, where the sun sets in a blaze of colour flaming on a gold background, and the dark, low shores trend towards each other.
The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestie playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position as, when viewed at a proper distance, precisely to resemble the
features of the human countenance.
Hunsden, that patrician descent may be read in a distinctive cast of form and
features?"
In the darkness of the night she had not yet had an opportunity to see the
features of the man, but after a glimpse at those of his two companions she trembled to think of the hideous thing that might be revealed to her.
'Hollo!' said Sam, 'I ought to know that 'ere head and them
features; the eyeglass, too, and the broad-brimmed tile!
Her eyes were radiant with the glow of grateful feelings; the flush of her beauty was again seated on her cheeks, and her whole soul seemed ready and anxious to pour out its thanksgivings through the medium of her eloquent
features. But when her lips moved, the words they should have uttered appeared frozen by some new and sudden chill.
Eliza's figure was at once slight and plump, her face small, and nearly as round as my sister's, - complexion, something similar to hers, but more delicate and less decidedly blooming, - nose, retrousse, -
features, generally irregular; and, altogether, she was rather charming than pretty.
He appeared to be a man about forty years of age, with fine, handsome
features, and a tall, well-shaped figure; his hair and whiskers were light, his forehead compact and unwrinkled, his face rather pale, his teeth magnificent.
Among the grand
features of the wilderness about which he was roaming, one had made a vivid impression on his mind, and been clothed by his imagination with vague and ideal charms.
