The crest of the hill lost its roundness, and the soil which had worked out through the shell craters had changed the colour of the summit.

He required, at this period of his career, the relief of sculpture in order to express the roundness of the human form and the relative depth of objects placed in a receding order.

Suffering had not yet flattened the delicate roundness of her cheek, or sharpened the angles of her chin.

It thus assists in relieving the abrupt projections and depressions of the general surface, and in giving roundness and symmetry to the entire body.

Mr. Gibson said: "The power of imitating the roundness and softness of flesh, he had never seen surpassed."

A woman's throat may lack a certain desirable roundness, and her shoulders may recede in awkward lines, and yet between these defective features the curves may have a not unpleasing daintiness and delicacy in modelling that can be advantageously revealed.

But if there be any one who prefers a loose style of oratory, let him cultivate it; keeping in view this principle,if any one were to take to pieces the shield of Phidias, he would destroy the beauty of the collective arrangement, not the exquisite workmanship of each fragment: and as in Thucydides I only miss the roundness of his periods; all the graces of style are there.

There will be perceived such an universal roundness in all parts of the child's body, that there is no such thing as an angle to be found in the whole figure; whether the limbs are bent or straight, every line forms a portion of a circle.

[Illustration: NO. 26] That amiable type of woman formed conspicuously upon the circular plan often unconsciously impresses the fact of her fatal tendency to rotundity by repeating the roundness of her globular eyes, the disk-like appearance of her snub nose and the circle of her round mouth, and the fulness of her face by wearing a little, round hat in the style portrayed by No. 26.

The praise, notwithstanding, sounded sweet from her lips, was sweeter still from her eyes, and from the warmer white of her cheek, which had begun to resume its soft roundness.

She extended to Calvert the famously beautiful hand and arm, from which the soft, black lace fell away, revealing its exquisite roundness and whiteness and over which Mr. Morris bent low in salutation.

He saw the roundness of her eyes.

"Do you know?" Marjorie dropped her chip into the stove and looked up at the broad figure in the wooden rockera figure in a black dress and gingham apron, with a neat white cap covering her gray hair, a round face, from which Marjorie had taken her roundness and dimples, a shrewd face with a determined mouth and the kindliest eyes that ever looked out upon the world.

There, in the shade of the elm, her blue dress flecked with gold, the warm pallor of heat upon her face, her hair lying close and heavy, a little pulse beating where the low collar softly disclosed the slim roundness of her white throat, she was not only beautiful, she was Beauty.

She was spare, and yet withal a roundness left to the cheek and forearm.