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" Alcina from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet, that notwithstanding the grace, the facility, the soft elegance of his verse, Alcina is not beautiful. "
The Credit of the County: A Novel - Page 35
by William Edward Norris - 1901 - 323 pages
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1875 - 1082 pages
...Mr. Lane had a case in the Lock Hospital of a girl, aged 22, who had been a year diseased, literally from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet, and through no fault of her own. She contracted the disease in nursing the child of a friend. She kissed...
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The Missionary Magazine, Volume 30

Baptists - 1850 - 442 pages
...once, and prepared to listen to the gospel. It was a greit pleasure to tell the poor leper, whose flesh from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet was literally consuming, that there is balm and a Physician for her. 20. — Had a long talk with an...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 30

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...beautiful rows Of pearly white teeth, and for beautiful arms — For a conglomeration of beautiful charms, From the crown of her head to the soles of her feet, (And these last, by the way, were remarkably neat) I 'd back little Zillah — the daughter of some one...
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The Dead Secret, Volume 1

Wilkie Collins - Artists and theater - 1857 - 376 pages
...as her legs would carry her, with all her hair "standing up on end," and all her flesh "in. a crawl" from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. "Just so! Just so!" said Mr. Munder, when the statement came to a close — as if the sight of a young...
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Mignonette, a sketch, by the author of The curate of Holy Cross. [signing ...

Ernest Richard Seymour - 1858 - 296 pages
...a contrary line of behaviour to herself, and taking her in, as the phrase is, with all their eyes, from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. At a slight bend in the road she caught a view of the little country church with its grey square tower,...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 20

Literature - 1860 - 874 pages
...then her health! Why, as sure as you're alive, I do think there wasn'ta single bone in her whole body, from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet, nor yet an inch of her flesh, that she didn't enter a complaint agin that blessed day ! Why, to hear...
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Witch Stories

Witchcraft - 1861 - 460 pages
...with fresh pains, " sticking and pricking Pains, as if Pins and Awls had been thrust into her Body, from the Crown of her Head to the Soles of her Feet, and she lay as if she had been upon a rack ;" and none but Temperance Lloyd the cause thereof, despite...
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Witch Stories

Elizabeth Lynn Linton - Witchcraft - 1861 - 452 pages
...with fresh pains, " sticking and pricking Pains, as if Pins and Awls had been thrust into her Body, from the Crown of her Head to the Soles of her Feet, and she lay as if she had been upon a rack ;" and none but Temperance Lloyd the cause thereof, despite...
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The Bradfordian, Issue 1

Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) - 1862 - 252 pages
...head on my shoulder, and kissed her cheek. While doing this, I felt every nerve and fibre about her, from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet quiver like a viol string. The declaration was on my lips, I strove to speak but could not, my voice...
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The Mysteries of the Court of London, Volume 2

George William MacArthur Reynolds - 1864 - 436 pages
...violently — she was thrilled with the spasm of a mortal terror that shot through her entire frame from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. Then, as if suspense wero worse than even the realization of the appalling suspicion that had flashed...
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