Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...morning, about a month after my arrival, we - that is, Amy and I - were rowing down the bay together in the face of a fresh breeze, that, as we neared the harbor's mouth, was beating the waves harder and harder against our boat. I can't for the life of me say just how it happened, but I believe she quoted something to the effect that troubles were billows on life's ocean; when I proposed that we buffet them in company, and made as big a fool of myself as such circumstances require, promising eternal devotion, and expressing...
...face is fair as Aphrodite...
...will look this way, I will show you some of its fine points. In the first place, by touching a hidden spring, the cover over the face flies back and discloses the hours all beautifully engraved on a white background. Here, again, you see the hands, three in number and of different sizes. In the three hands you must recognize an especial advantage, for even if two hands get broken you still have one left to show the time; also you cannot fail to see the wisdom of having hands of different sizes, for, to a near-sighted person...
...mirror, and the face...
...asset my mind about this Venie. Isaac tells me her neck and bust have been jollified by thousands; think of it, Mr. Brimstone, inflect how improper of that girl to be seen in such an informal, decolleti way! How lacking in maidenly preserve she must be! What a brass face the girl must have! The carmine glow profuses my hectic cheeks as I think of it; and then for Isaac not to be ashamed of such coyness! Really, Mr. Brimstone, I'll double my conscription, if you will seek out my Isaac, my stray calf, my angel...