 His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost...  Miscellaneous Prose Works - Page 258by Walter Scott - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Judith Halberstam - 1995 - 236 pages
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. (57) Frankenstein's monster's skin barely covers his interior — the monster is transparent. The features... | |
 | Barbara Claire Freeman - 2023 - 220 pages
...beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!" (52). And Victor proceeds to chronicle the Monster's various atrocities: "his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the sunken white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips" (52).... | |
 | Anne Powling, John O'Connor, Geoff Barton - 1996 - 166 pages
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. The different... | |
 | Theresa M. Kelley - 1997 - 372 pages
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes" (Frankenstein 52). In the botched Petrarchan imagery of this description, synecdoche goes wildly awry.... | |
 | David J. Skal - 1998 - 380 pages
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips." The monster's creator seeks escape in real sleep, but to no avail; he dreams of an encounter with his fiancee,... | |
 | Tilottama Rajan, Julia M. Wright - 1998 - 316 pages
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...his shrivelled complexion, [and] straight black lips . . . [B]y the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters,... | |
 | John Sutherland - 1999 - 276 pages
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. (pp. 38-9; my emphasis) Jonathan Grossman raises an interesting query about this. 'Last semester' (ie... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 pages
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. from Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 3 vols, London, 1818, ch. 4. catastrophe: (i) climactic... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 pages
...his hair was of a htstrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these htxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery...the dun white sockets in which they were set. his sbrivelled complexion. and straight black lips. from Frankensteln, or The Modeen Proroetheus, 3 vols,... | |
 | Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Rod Ellis - 2002 - 358 pages
...and arteries beneath; his hair was a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and 15 straight black lips. The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human... | |
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