 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 571 pages
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her...friendship with another lady of more advanced years. Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind or who more improved them by reading and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. .... "Properly speaking'' — he goes on with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London —only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. "... Properly speaking" — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886
...most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London,—only a little too fat. ' Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 192 pages
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." This was the Stella of Swift's after-life, the one woman to whom his whole love was given. But side... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 457 pages
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. " . . . . Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray, George Du Maurier, George Cruikshank, John Leech, George Grey Barnard - 1886
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. "... Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1889 - 448 pages
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her...in perfection. She lived generally in the country," at Moor Park, " with a family where she contracted an intimate friendship with another lady of more... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. " . . . . Properly sptaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. "... Properly speaking " — he goes on , with a calmness, which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
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She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven,... 
