"Emphasizing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ironically, and at last, giving way to the feeling of amusement I caused her, burst out laughing, by which she disfigured herself, and exposed the horrible anatomy of her jaws. She laughed so heartily that her chin and nose met, hiding her lips, and emphasizing two wrinkles, or rather two deep furrows, and more than a dozen lines on her cheeks and eyelids; at the same time her head and body shook with the laughter, until at last her cough began to interrupt the bursts, and between ...
— First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) - And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life • Various
... for any purpose because of their traditional socio-religious convictions, considering it an unethical and undignified practice. Perhaps it has been al-Zahr[a]w[i]aEuro(TM)s original contributions to surgery, his enthusiasm in emphasizing the value of anatomical knowledge, and his recognition of the necessity that only well-educated, well-trained doctors should perform surgery that have led some medical historians to wonder whether he did human dissection at some time in his long ...
— Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise • Sami Hamarneh
... that Mr. Tiffany had a fashion of emphasizing his discourse with a reference to this ancient person, whom he supposed to have been an exquisite of the first water, which happily furnished a cover under which the entire Peabody family exploded with laughter at ...
— Chanticleer - A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family • Cornelius Mathews
... and massive. His features are striking—a big nose, heavy, grizzled mustache, bushy brows emphasizing eyes blue and kindly, a wide mouth, tobacco-stained, with a constant movement of the jaws—bovine, but shrewdly ruminative. A leonine head of shaggy white hair crowns the whole. Ridley, the private secretary, is about the same age. He is a ruddy-cheeked, ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald
... pleased with the toast; for each repeated it after him, each in his turn emphasizing the "me" and the "here"—"Oh, bury me here!" "Oh, bury me here!"—Buzzard in a voice many tones deeper than that of Swallow and the landlord in a voice many tones deeper than that of Buzzard. Indeed, the guttural tones of the landlord bespoke ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.
|
