The whole of Africa, indeed, was of a lighter hue than either Asia or Europe, owing, I presume, to its having a greater proportion of sandy soil: and I could not avoid contrasting, in my mind, the colour of these continents, as they now appeared, with the complexions of their respective inhabitants.

A man stood without, a German with complexion like mahogany.

I fancied I should be your favourite, and hold the first place; and when I saw her, I would not see her grace and gentleness, or observe her soft sweet voice, and the charms that put my figure and complexion to shame, and the quiet sense and truth that were worth twelvefold my quickness, my memory, and my handiness.

On the opposite side of the building a crocodileor the remains of onehangs from the wall, doubtless brought, as M. Joanne suggests, from some Egyptian crusade; but the "church" puts a very different complexion on the subject, as will be seen from the following, whichwith all its faultswill be, we trust, pardoned, since it issues from the mouth of so badly-treated a reptile as "THE CROCODILE OF ST. BERTRAND.

What's that ye call complexion in a horse? BOY.

During childhood he is quite healthy, thin, but striking robust, active, energetic, generally fair-complexioned with nose straight and high bridged, eyes rather "poppy," teeth excellent, regular, firm, white with a pearly translucent enamel.

I have kept them by themselves, became they are of a different complexion from those, which I intend should follow.

Matrimony!I hope you are so exactly refin'd a Man of the Town, that you will not offer once to think of so dull a thing: let that alone for such cold Complexions as Bellmour here, and I, that have not attain'd to that most excellent faculty of Keeping yet, as you, Sir Timothy, have done; much to your Glory, I assure you.

He found the island peopled by a race of Indians with fairer complexions than any he had hitherto seen; 'people all of good stature, well made, and of very graceful bearing, with much and smooth hair.'

In appearance he is anything but prepossessingsmall of stature and very dark in complexion for a Pathan; with not a tooth in his head, and the skin on his face loose and wrinkled, he presents the appearance of an aged man, though really not more than fifty-five.

Do you know her?" Jack."No, but I know a girl who buys her complexion at the same store at which Miss SMITH buys hers.

That pinky-delicate complexion by which he had, in earlier and easier days, set obvious store, was brownish and looked hardened.

" "Now the daisies; and oh, dear me, not one can I find in this poverty-stricken town," sighed Kitty, prinking at the glass, and fervently hoping that nothing would happen to her complexion over night.

His disguise was, however, pretty complete, walnut juice being, we believe, the material that converted a florid complexion into the tan so natural to Afghan mountaineers.

"The variety of nations, and the numerous shades of complexion among the people in the streets of Cape Town, are very striking to a stranger.

There is nothing of an ecclesiastical complexion about either its external or internal architecture.