 Their hair was not crisped, like the recently-discovered tribes of the African coast, under the same latitude, but straight and coarse, partly cut short above the ears, but some locks were left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features,...  Complete Works - Page 167by Washington Irving - 1882Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...partly cut short above the ears, but some locks left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features, though obscured and disfigured by...remarkably .fine eyes. They were of moderate stature and well-shaped; most of them appeared to be under thirty years of age : there was but one female with... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1828 - 574 pages
...partly cut short above the ears, but some locks left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features, though obscured and disfigured by...remarkably fine eyes. They were of moderate stature and well-shaped ; most of them appeared to be under thirty years of age : there was but one female with... | |
 | 1828 - 448 pages
...partly cut short above the ears, but some locks left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features, though obscured and disfigured by...they had lofty foreheads and remarkably fine eyes. Ttiey were of moderate stature and well-shaped; most of them appeared to be under thirty years of age... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...partly cut short above the ears, but some locks left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features, though obscured and disfigured by...remarkably fine eyes. They were of moderate stature and well-shaped ; most of them appeared to be under thirty years of age : there was but one female with... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - America - 1833 - 290 pages
...them, like a horse's mane, than any other thing. Their hair was long, hanging over their shoulders. " Their features, though obscured and disfigured by...foreheads, and remarkably fine eyes. They were of a moderate stature, and well shaped." These islanders were gentle in their demeanour, and exhibited... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1835 - 436 pages
...partly cut short above the ears, but some locks left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features> though obscured and disfigured by...naked like her companions, and beautifully formed. * Las Casas. ubi sup. t The idea that the white men came from hf «ven was universally entertained... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - Children's literature - 1842 - 418 pages
...or copper hue, and they had no beards. Their hair was straight and coarse ; their features, though disfigured by paint, were agreeable; they had lofty..." They were of moderate stature, and well shaped. They appeared to be a simple and artless people, and of gentle and friendly dispositions. Their only... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 454 pages
...partly cut short above the ears, but some locks were left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features, though obscured and disfigured by...remarkably fine eyes. They were of moderate stature and wellshaped ; most of them appeared to be under thirty years of age : there was but one female with... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 756 pages
...partly cut short above the ears, but some locks were left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features, though obscured and disfigured by...remarkably fine eyes. They were of moderate stature and wellshaped ; most of them appeared to be under thirty years of age : there was but one female with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 450 pages
...partly cut short above the ears, but some locks were left long behind and falling upon their shoulders. Their features, though obscured and disfigured by...remarkably fine eyes. They were of moderate stature and wellshaped ; most of them appeared to be under thirty years of age : there was but one female with... | |
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