1902 examples of complexions in sentences

[10] In Latin, Mauri, Maurice, Maurici, Maurusci, and it is supposed, so called by the Greeks from their dark complexions.

"Ah, 'twill be nothin' more than a sun shower, it will make your complexions betternot that you need it though," he hastened to add.

They lie that say complexions cannot change: My blood's ennobled, and I am transform'd Unto the sacred temper of a king.

The Chinese are generally handsome, of comely stature, and of fair complexions, and by no means addicted to excess in wine.

Some thinke Your Witts of two Complexions fram'd, That One the Sock, th'Other the Buskin claim'd; That should the Stage embattaile all it's Force, FLETCHER would lead the Foot, BEAUMONT the Horse.

For similitudes, he likes the hardest and most obscure best; for as ladies wear black patches to make their complexions seem fairer than they are, so when an illustration is more obscure than the sense that went before it, it must of necessity make it appear clearer than it did, for contraries are best set off with contraries.

Those that I saw at the Sultan's were like the Malays, and had light complexions, with very black teeth.

Coquage god of cuckolds, as one merrily said, accompanies the goddess Jealousy, both follow the fairest, by Jupiter's appointment, and they sacrifice to them together: beauty and honesty seldom agree; straight personages have often crooked manners; fair faces, foul vices; good complexions, ill conditions.

The archers, who now proceeded to pinion Jesus with the greatest brutality, were pagans of the lowest extraction, short, stout, and active, with sandy complexions, resembling those of Egyptian slaves, and bare legs, arms, and neck.

They have long, but not prominent noses, like the Jews; small, oblong eyes, narrow lips, and fair complexions, most of them having brown hair.

The women of the Tyrol are in general remarkably beautiful, exceedingly well shaped and of fine complexions.

Their complexions, like Miss Moppet's, were exquisitely satin-like in texture, but there was no break in Pamela's smooth cheeks, whereas Betty's dimples lurked not only around her willful mouth, but perched high in her right cheek, and you found yourself unconsciously watching to see them come and go at the tricksy maid's changing will.

You cannot change your color, but you can try to change the association connected with our complexions.

Laces, gauzes, mulls, chiffons, net, and gossamer throw the same beautiful glamour over the face and they are fit and charming accompaniments of gray hair, which is a wonderful softener of defective complexions and hard facial lines.

I don't care a straw how light their complexions are, they are niggers nevertheless, and ought to go to a nigger school; they are no better than any other coloured children.

Often I have heard men of colour say they would not be white if they couldhad no desire to change their complexions; I've written some down fools; others, liars.

A dirty lane filled with all complexions of hawkers and pedlars, licensed and unlicensed!true incurious reader, Gay has sung "Of Drury's mazy courts and dark abodes;" yet the topographical and theatrical loiterer may call to mind many pleasing reminiscences, although mingled with unpleasing ones: "Who has not here a watch or snuff-box lost, Or handkerchiefs that India's shuttle boast.

It was not only by their brown complexions that they resembled them; but it was also by their long rosaries, twisted in the some manner about their arms, resembling, except the cross, those of the Moors, and by the great number of Amulets, (gris-gris of another kind) which they wear round their necks, and by which they seemed to wish to rival the infidels in credulity.

The women looked strong and their complexions were rosy.

Of the Tîrthakaras of the present age or avasarpini in the Bharata-varsha of Jambûdvîpa, however, we are supplied with minute details:their names, parents, stations, reputed ages, complexions, attendants, cognizances (chihna) or characteristics, etc. and these details are useful for the explanation of the iconography we meet with in the shrines of Jaina temples.

The town is irregularly built, but very picturesque; the houses are in the style of the old houses of Spain, with windows down to the ground, and barred, in which sit the Jalapenas ladies, with their fair complexions and black eyes.

Blonde people fancy either absolutely dark complexions or brown; but it is rarely the case vice versâ.

He paused to rest himself a few minutes in the doorway of a photographic gallery; and, while there, observed two young men, with sickly complexions and bloodshot eyes, coming up the street.

But it was not her beauty, remarkable as this wasit was not her brightest of blue eyes, nor her fairest of complexions, nor those rich luxuriant tressesthat formed the greatest charm in Emily Sherwood.

"You know the 'Tziganes,' don't you?those marvellous gentlemen in red coats with sleek dark singlets, exotic complexions, and bold, rolling black eyes.

1902 examples of  complexions  in sentences