The women here, like those in most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportionably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good complexions, and an air of freshness and brilliancy, but this I am told is very evanescent ; and whereas,... The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 - Stran 127avtor: Philip Hone - 1889Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1835 - 746 strani
...countries. " The women here, like those of most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportionably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good...evanescent ; and whereas in England a woman is in the full bloom of health and beauty from 20 to 35, here they scarcely reach the first period without being... | |
| 1835 - 466 strani
...was much taken up with a youth, to whom, my neighbour at dinner informed me, she was engaged. * * * The women here, like those of most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportionably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good complexions, and an air of freshness... | |
| 1835 - 742 strani
...lady," &c. may unite the interests, improve the harmony, and amalgamate the breed of the two countries " The women here, like those of most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportionably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good complexions, and an air of freshness... | |
| Fanny Kemble - 1835 - 346 strani
...much taken up with a youth, to whom, my neighbour at dinner informed me, she was engaged. * * * 4 4 The women here, like those of most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay profortionably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good complexions, and an air of freshness... | |
| Fanny Kemble - 1835 - 270 strani
...much taken up with a youth, to whom, my neighbour at dinner informed me, she was engaged. * * * ****** The women here, like those of most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportionably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good complexions, and an air of freshness... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1889 - 374 strani
...capes, — the whole of which, to my English eye, appeared a strange marrying of incongruities. . . . The women here, like those of most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportionally soon. They arc, generally speaking, pretty, with good complexions, and au air of freshness... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 412 strani
...again : " The women here, like those in most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportion ably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good...evanescent ; and whereas, in England, a woman is in the full bloom of health and beauty, from twenty to five and thirty ; here, they scarce reach the first... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 726 strani
...again : "The women here, like those in most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportionably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good...evanescent ; and whereas, in England, a woman is in the full bloom of health and beauty, from twenty to five and thirty ; here, they scarce reach the first... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 738 strani
...again : "The women here, like those in most warm climates, ripen very early, and decay proportionably soon. They are, generally speaking, pretty, with good...evanescent ; and whereas, in England, a woman is in the full bloom of health and beauty, from twenty to five and thirty ; here, they scarce reach the first... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1914 - 1084 strani
...and almost every house has a tree or trees in its vicinity, which look pretty and garden-like. . . . The women here, like those of most warm climates,...very early and decay proportionately soon. . . . They marryvery young, and this is another reason why age comes prematurely upon them. ... As for their figures,... | |
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