| 1790 - 614 pàgines
...creature I had met with. Her features were perfectly like thole of a Negro ; a ring of gold p-iiTed through her under lip, and weighed it down, till, like a flap, it covered her chin, and left her teeth bare, which were very fmall and fine. The infide of her lip ihe had made black with... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1797 - 362 pàgines
...creature he had met with. Her features were perfectly like thofe of a negro; a ring of gold palfed- through her under lip, and weighed it down, till, like a flap, it covered her chin, and left her teeth bare, which were very fmall and fine. The infide of her lip fhe had made black with... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 442 pàgines
...perfectly refembled thofe Serwitr, of a negro: a ring of gold paffed through her under lip, J'J ' ^ and weighed it down, till, like a flap, it covered her chin, leaving her teeth bare, which were fmall and very fine. The inlido of her lip was made black with antimony.... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 346 pàgines
...and rhinoceros, to be the largest living creature he had met with. Her features were perfectly like those of a negro ; a ring of gold passed through her under lip, and weighed it ilown, till like a flap, it covered her chin, and left her teeth bare, which were very small ar BRL'CE'S... | |
| Thomas Smith - 1804 - 310 pàgines
...largest creature he had seen next to the elephant and rhinoceros. Her features perfectly resembled those of a negro: a ring of gold passed through, her under lip, and weighed it down till it almost covered her chin, leaving her teeth bare, which" were small and very fine. The inside of... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pàgines
...the elephant and rhinoceros Her features perfectly refembled thole of a negro : a ring of gold pafied through her under lip, and weighed it down, till, like a flap, it covered her chin, leaving her teeth bare, which were fmall and very fine. The infide of her lip was made black with antimony.... | |
| Priscilla Wakefield - 1814 - 396 pàgines
...high, and corpulent beyond all proportion. She seemed to me, next to the elephant and rhinoceros, to be the largest living creature I had ever seen. Her features...passed through her under lip, and weighed it down, so that it covered her chin like a flap, and exposed her tcclh, which were small and fine; the inside... | |
| 1815 - 500 pàgines
...and rhinoceros, to be the largest living creature I had met with. Her features were perfectly like those of a negro; a ring of gold passed through her...down, till, like a flap, it covered her chin, and left her teeth bare, which were very small and fine. The inside of her lips she had made black with... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pàgines
...largest creature he had seen next to the elephant and rhinoceros. Her features perfectly resembled those of a negro; a ring of gold passed through her...weighed it down, till, like a flap, it covered her chin, leaving her teeth hare, which were small and very fine. The inside of her lip was made black with antimony.... | |
| Sir Francis Bond Head - 1830 - 582 pàgines
...elephant and rhinoceros, the largest living creature I had ever met with. Her features were perfectly like those of a negro ; a ring of gold passed through her...down, till, like a flap, it covered her chin, and left her teeth bare, which were very small and fine. The inside of her lip she had made black with... | |
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