Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Probably the richest coloring in the exhibition is to be seen in the two examples of Piot. One is a large figure picture representing two richly dressed Italian peasant women offering an orange to a pretty child, upon whom the attention is centred. The drawing is superb, and the flesh tints, though delicate and soft, do not possess the naturalness of a Bouguereau. Yet many prefer Piot to the latter...
Guiteau is still happy and gaining flesh...
Statistics are interesting occasionally, when there are real flesh and blood persons "statisticised," and some of ours have been taken lately, which are not without suggestiveness. In the first place, one hundred and odd girls represent twenty-two States and Territories in our Union, and Canada and Nova Scotia outside. But whether they come from Wyoming or Texas, California or Florida, they are as like as peas when they march to church in procession on Sundays, in their sealskins and great Gainsborough hats with flowing plumes. Dame Fashion has regulated the outer woman, and it must be Mother Nature...
...been recently ascertained that Solomon had just got through his semi-annuals when he wrote, "Much study is a weariness of the flesh." "The grinders cease, because they...
...enthusiasm of indignation, fear of "bad form," forsooth. What is left for me henceforth? Obscurity only. After my services of so many centuries "for the public good," to be thus silently contemned is too much. To be called "grumbler," "fault-finder," and a "thing," is more than even the flesh and blood of so antiquated a creature as myself can bear...