The physiognomists plotted Jewish noses, ears, and mouths.54 The anthropologists measured stature, chest sizes, head shapes, girth, and body mass. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)
But the boy was naturally of an undaunted temper; and indeed children are generally acute physiognomists, and not only pleased by that which is beautiful in itself, but peculiarly quick in distinguishing and replying to the attentions of those who really love them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists → ❋ Unknown (2008)
Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists ❋ Unknown (2008)
But the son of an ill-fated sire, and the father of a yet more unfortunate family, bore in his look that cast of inauspicious melancholy, by which the physiognomists of that time pretended to distinguish those who were predestined to a violent and unhappy death. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic ❋ Unknown (2008)
Her hair and eyebrows were jet black (these latter may have been too thick according to some physiognomists, giving rather a stern expression to the eyes, and hence causing those guilty ones to tremble who came under her lash), but her complexion was as dazzlingly fair and her cheeks as red as Miss ❋ Unknown (2006)
Nokes was a big fellow, with a broad, solid face, which would not have condemned him among physiognomists but for a bad eye, which could not look you in the face. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Her disposition was naturally that which physiognomists consider as proper to fair complexions, mild, timid, and gentle; but it had been tempered, and, as it were, hardened, by the circumstances of her education. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And it's the literal shape of your face that determines your place in the world, as the city's physiognomists use there tools to understand character - and use their tools to determine just how guilty you are, and of what... ❋ Sbisson (2003)
The fair-haired beauty had a large proportion of that softness and pliability of temper which physiognomists assign as the characteristics of such complexions. ❋ Unknown (2003)
His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call “repose in action,” a quality of those who act rather than talk. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Two or three of these astute politicians — physiognomists by virtue of their profession — failed not to detect on the countenance of their host symptoms of disquietude, the source of which eluded their penetration; but none ventured to interrogate him on the subject. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Lady Helena and Mary Grant, concealing their alarm, conversed in a low voice with Glenarvan, and the keenest physiognomists would have failed to see any anxiety in their faces. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But if the face be blackened and begrimed, or covered with a layer of dirt so, that the features are hidden, then physiognomists will give wrong answers nine times out of ten. ❋ Unknown (1962)
The physiognomists draw their conclusions from the osseous structure and from the lines of the skin. ❋ Unknown (1962)
Of features the physiognomists used to distinguish ❋ Unknown (1962)
The boy started as he heard and saw the stranger: -- he involuntarily put one foot forward in an attitude of childish defiance: but children are keen physiognomists, and there was nothing but affection beaming from that mournful face. ❋ A Bushman (N/A)
