 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...28, 1727-8 : — " She was sickly from her childhood, until about the age of fifteen ; but then she grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. " . . . . Properly sptaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 498 pages
...28, 1727-28 : — " She was sickly from her childhood, until about the age of fifteen ; but then she grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. "... Properly speaking " — he goes on , with a calmness, which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | James Hay - Authors, Irish - 1891 - 390 pages
...with his own. He thus describes her: " She was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, and graceful, agreeable young women in London, only a little too...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection . . . never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind or who more improved them by reading... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 474 pages
...28, 1727-28 : — " She was sickly from her childhood, until about the age of fifteen ; but then she grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young womeu in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1894 - 404 pages
...honour and virtue ; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen;...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. She lived generally in the country, with a family where she contracted an intimate friendship with... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1894 - 400 pages
...honour and virtue ; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen;...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. She lived generally in the country, with a family where she contracted an intimate friendship with... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1894 - 404 pages
...honour and virtue ; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen...and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, gracsful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1894 - 420 pages
...passing from the constant sickliness of childhood into the more robust health of early womanhood. She was looked upon " as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London " : but her beauty was not so much that of form and feature, as of striking and attractive piquancy.... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pages
...when he returned from Kilroot.6 About this age, he tells us, she got over an infantile delicacy, " grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one...beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." Her conduct and character... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...28, 1727-28 : — " She was sickly from her childhood, until about the age of fifteen ; but then she grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. "... Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness, which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
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She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven,... 
