There is something too at all times very mock-Indian in the theatrical French millinery tie of the Pottawottomi turban; while it is next to impossible for a sober white man, at first sight, to believe that the red, green, black, blue, and yellow cosmetics, with which he sees such grave personages so variously dotted, diapered, cancelled, and arabesqued are worn by them in any mood but one of the deepest and most desperate quizzing.

The audience were as scandalized as if you were to introduce such a personage to their private tea-tables.

Yet on arriving at the Bruxtelle some twenty minutes later Charlie found this same queer personage occupying a hotel chair in the lobby and apparently reading a newspaper with serious attention.

I am to meet a personage on Thursday evening in town, and read over the whole to him.

Jack, not knowing the personages, simply listened.

In the midst of a large room, the sides of which were crowded with coffins, piled to the very ceiling, sat about a dozen personages, with pipes in their mouths, and flasks and glasses before them.

The myth of Tammuz and Istar passed, through the Phoenicians, to the Greeks, among whom Adonis and Aphrodite represent the personages of the ancient Accadian legend.

At each end of the car stood two ruffianly-looking personages, with large canes in their hands, and, if their countenances were an index of their hearts, they were the very impersonation of hardened villany itself.

Messer Andrea, next after Cosimo the most influential citizen of Florence, was elected to the Priorate in 1435, and in 1439 he was called upon to entertain no less a personage than King René of France.

And all these outsiders wanted to see her in the flesh, just as they always thirst to behold Royal personages.

" "No, son," returned the venerable personage, "I propose to occasion no such needless trouble to Apollo, or any other Divinity.

So what do you think about that?" Graham was astounded to hear these two world-famous personages fighting like children and competing for his attention.

A great painter will be careful to express these distinctions, not by the exterior character only, but will so combine the personages, that the action represented shall display the superior dignity of Christ and his mother.

And in his liking to winne worthie place, Through due deserts and comely carriage, In whatso please employ his personage, That may be matter meete to game him praise.

We proposed visiting this personage; and on arriving at the gateway were met by a peon, who, after delivering our message to the Rajah, requested us to wait a few minutes, until his Highness was ready.

" "By fair fighting, an' please my liege," observed the visored personage, "not by these dastardly treacheries.

Woe is the subject, Phil.;[80] earth the loath'd stage Whereon we act this feigned personage; Most like barbarians the spectators be, That sit and laugh at our calamity.

He imitated the personages and the subjects of the old mythology, and treated them in an epic spirit, his subjects being almost invariably taken from Homer and the Epic cycle.

Care has been taken to select those personages concerning whom information is most required by the historical student.

"And this is Mr. Caroll, one of our engineers," he said, indicating a rather rough-looking personage by his side.

It may be worth while to remark, that, though the incidents of this attempt do only in a small degree produce each other, and it deviates accordingly from the general rule by which narrative pieces ought to be governed, it is not, therefore, wanting in continuous hold upon the mind, or in unity, which is effected by the identity of moral interest that places the two personages upon the same footing in the reader's sympathies.

It is true, it was not easy to deceive myself in this particular, and, in point of fact, I was certainly right; but when I found a man who was able to lend $40,000 at an hour's notice, valuing himself on coming from Miles the First, I could not avoid fancying Miles the First a more considerable personage than I had hitherto imagined.

"I spoke too hastily when I said that, and forgot entirely a very distinguished personage who visited me this morning.

"What now?" asked that startled personage.

After the lapse of seven hundred years, however, inordinate ambition inflamed the heart of Jemshíd, and, having assembled all the illustrious personages and learned men in his dominions before him, he said to them:"Tell me if there exists, or ever existed, in all the world, a king of such magnificence and power as I am?"