 | 1849 - 544 pages
...mingling of Spring and Summer in womanhood ; and the tender blue eyes, bright and clear as diamonds of the purest water, the soft regular features, and the merry...similitude to the attributes of the jocund month. Here is a contrast to this rustic beauty in the person of Alizon's sister — or supposed sister —... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1849 - 534 pages
...clear as diamonds of the purest water, the soft regular features, and the merry mouth, whose niddy, parted lips ever and anon displayed two rows of pearls,...similitude to the attributes of the jocund month. Here is a contrast to this rustic beauty in the person of Alizon's sister —or supposed sister —... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1850 - 498 pages
...tender blue eyes, bright and clear as diamonds of purest water, the soft regular features, and tho merry mouth, whose ruddy parted lips ever and anon...similitude to the attributes of the jocund month. Attentively watching these proceedings sat on a stool, placed in a corner, a little girl, some nine... | |
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... that dyed her lovely cheeks, that she might have been taken for a personification of May herself. She was indeed in the very May of life — the mingling of Spring and... 