 | 1863 - 514 pages
...him back to another face, twenty years younger, with delicate colouring', smooth brow, coral lips, long shining hair, and dark voluptuous eyes — another,...faithless wife met once again in life. He gazed upon her as men in ancient days gazed on the horrible visage of the Medusa, fascinated with a spell that,... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1863 - 514 pages
...took him back to another face, twenty years younger, with delicate colouring, smooth brow, coral lips, long shining hair, and dark voluptuous eyes — another,...faithless wife met once again in life. He gazed upon her as men in ancient days gazed on the horrible visage of the Medusa, fascinated with a spell that,... | |
 | 1863 - 520 pages
...took him back to'another face, twenty years younger, with delicate colouring, smooth brow, coral lips, long shining hair, and dark voluptuous eyes — another,...gas-lamp ; her bloodshot eyes looked up at him ; and tlum, after twenty years, Sabretasche and his faithless wife met once again in life. He gazed upon... | |
 | Ouida - 1864 - 466 pages
...delicate coloring, smooth brow, coral lips, long shining hair, and dark voluptuous eyes—another, yet the same, marked and ruined even then with the...his faithless wife met once again in life. He gazed npon her as men in ancient days gazed on the horrible visage of the Medusa, fascinated with a spell... | |
 | Ouida - 1873 - 664 pages
...inflamed with the passion for drink; the eyes red, the lips thin, the brow contracted, the hair grey and spare — the face of a virago, the face of a...eyes looked up at him; and thus , after twenty years, he and his faithless wife met once again in life. He gazed upon her as men in ancient days gazed on... | |
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... smooth brow, coral lips, long shining hair, and dark voluptuous eyes — another, yet the same, marked and ruined even then with the stain of the same virago passions. He gazed upon her, that dim and horrible memory struggling into birth by the light... 