21 Metaphors for complexions

Some objected to her paleness; others said it was not paleness, but fairness, for her eyes and hair were as dark as the night; but all agreed, that whatever it was to be called, her complexion was peculiarsome for that very reason judging it the more admirable, and others the contrary.

Terror had spread a grim mask upon the other; his complexion was the colour of oatmeal, his pendulous lips were quivering, his huge body seemed of a sudden to be deflated.

"As soon as dinner was over, I returned to Frederic: he looked so pleased, I shall never forget the glow that overspread his fair face, as I entered the berth, for he was really handsome; his eyes were bright hazel, his hair auburn, and waving over his head in the most graceful curls, while his complexion was the clearest and most beautiful I had ever seen.

"I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

Then his muscles became weak and trembling, his aversion to labour increased, and he had scarcely the energy or power to observe that his complexion (in patches) was ruddier than the cherry.

We should like to take him; but his colour, misshis complexion is a fatal objection.

The complexion was clear olive, without a particle of color, and no trace was on it to indicate what agitated the man within.

To him even the political complexion of his mail-carrier is a matter of importance.

Their dark complexions, hair and beards; their bright, mobile expression; their manners toned by the graces of Eastern civilization, were a strange contrast to the shaggy, elfish, ruddy-faced throng about them.

His complexion was a dun and tarnished red, the colour uniform through every region of the face, and suggested the idea of its being burnt and parched by the eternal fire that burned within him.

Their complexion is a light bronze, stunted in stature, well-knit, and about the middle size.

The complexion of the natives was a dark brown or coffee colour.

"Your changed complexions are to me a mirror Which shows me mine changed too; for I must be A party in this alteration, finding Myself thus altered with it.

Her complexion was the dark olive tinge of Spain; her eyes jet black, large and lustrous.

In the plains of the Ganges, he is black; in Syria, lighter and yet dusky; in Poland his complexion is ruddy and his hair as light as yours.

Their complexions are blacke, they shall want no Balls to wash their faces; if any doe light in their bodies they may chance be scourd all over.

His complexion was slightly the worse for wear, but his eyes were as blue as ever and almost as guileless.

Some objected to her paleness; others said it was not paleness, but fairness, for her eyes and hair were as dark as the night; but all agreed, that whatever it was to be called, her complexion was peculiarsome for that very reason judging it the more admirable, and others the contrary.

Its complexion was a bilious yellow, and it had red-rimmed windows.

But what an entirely different complexion was the whole thing beginning to take before they had walked a mile.

She effected this with difficulty, and as she placed her against the tree in a sitting posture, she observed with surprise, that her complexion, usually florid, was now deadly pale, and that her face was bathed in tears.

21 Metaphors for  complexions