 Mr. Durgin isn't one to inspire the casual beholder with the notion of his spiritual distinction. His face is so rude and strong, and he has such a primitive effect in his clothes, that you feel as if you were coming down the street with a prehistoric...  The Landlord at Lion's Head: A Novel - Page 230by William Dean Howells - 1897 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 296 pages
...physically and spiritually, (p. 114) It did not take Bessie Lynde long to perceive his savage aspect: "Mr. Durgin isn't one to inspire the casual beholder...barbers and tailors had put a fin de siecle surface on." "Whenever I looked around, and found that prehistoric man at my elbow, it gave me the creeps a little,... | |
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