 His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!— Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness;...  The Quarterly Review - Page 3781818Full view - About this book
 | John Salinsky - 2002 - 304 pages
...His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! - Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that... | |
 | Susan E. Lederer - 2002 - 94 pages
...around me. that 1 might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. . . . His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing . . . [it| formed a more horrid contrast w ith Ins watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour... | |
 | Clifton D. Bryant - 2003 - 1146 pages
...form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...as the dun- white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. (Shelley [1818] 1981:42) From Dracula: "Ah, you... | |
 | Gavriel Reisner - 2003 - 286 pages
...dull yellow eye of the Creature open. . . . How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe. . . . His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. (5:57) The Creature is a curious mixture of superhuman... | |
 | Peter Ellison - 2003 - 124 pages
...form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. The different... | |
 | Lucy Fischer - 2003 - 312 pages
...the Art Deco male. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 novel says the following about his appearance: His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...eyes that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white-sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips. (Shelley... | |
 | Lucy Fischer - 2003 - 312 pages
...Deco male. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 novel says the following about his appearance: f lis yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and...eyes that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white-sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips. (Shelley... | |
 | Andrew Bennett, Clare Constant - 2003 - 164 pages
...His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! - Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these 10 luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same... | |
 | Jay Clayton - 2003 - 288 pages
...Frankenstein sees "the dull yellow eye of the creature open," he is repelled by this feature, by the "watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set" (52). That night, when the monster visits Frankenstein's bed chamber, what disturbs him most is the... | |
 | Virginia Blum - 2003 - 376 pages
...arteries heneath; his hair was of a lustrous hlack, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; hut these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost ot the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight... | |
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