 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
 | Clifton D. Bryant - 2003 - 1146 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. (Shelley [1818] 1981:42) From Dracula: "Ah, you believe now?" I answered: "Do not press me too hard... | |
 | Virginia Blum - 2003 - 376 pages
...yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries heneath; his hair was of a lustrous hlack, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; hut...contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost ot the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight... | |
 | Peter Ellison - 2003 - 124 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... | |
 | Lucy Fischer - 2003 - 312 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 shriveled complexion, and straight black lips. (Shelley... | |
 | Andrew Bennett, Clare Constant - 2003 - 164 pages
...beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these 10 luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with...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... | |
 | Jay Clayton - 2003 - 288 pages
...Frankenstein sees "the dull yellow eye of the creature open," he is repelled by this feature, by the "watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set" (52). That night, when the monster visits Frankenstein's bed chamber, what disturbs him most is the... | |
 | Fred Botting, Dale Townshend - 2004 - 400 pages
...covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing . . . but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast...with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black... | |
 | Suzanne Enoch - 2004 - 384 pages
...into their coach. Perhaps Robert really could read minds. If so, she was in a great deal of trouble. The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. —Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein When Robert awoke in the morning, it was well past daylight. He'd... | |
 | Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, Alessio Cavallaro - 2002 - 346 pages
...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight... | |
 | Joel Garreau - 2005 - 412 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." Her novel, the first and still most celebrated work of fiction... | |
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