Word: phrenologist
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said the little man, "you 're desirous of submitting your head to the skilful manipulation of an experienced phrenologist. There's lots of lives wasted because people don't find out what they 're fitted for and what they ain't. Now I, sir, who have been a professor of this science for thirty-seven years and eight months will unfold to you, for the paltry sum of fifty cents, truths about yourself worth millions. Here, sir, is the most valuable thing you ever...
...guess that's so," broke in Renardy. "And now, aged phrenologist, were I master of these spacious apartments, I should first entertain you with biscuits and sherry, and then request you to bestow your valuable presence elsewhere. As the matter stands, let me refer you to this gentleman, who has been eagerly waiting till you were at leisure and he could pour into your sympathetic ear something that's on his mind...
...peculiarities of gait among pedlers. It is an easy matter to discover a new hand at the business. He walks along rather undecidedly, stops to scan the name on the door, and then knocks, with something of deference in the sound. Far different is the hardened book-agent or phrenologist; he gives an extremely frank and unembarrassed thump, and comes in without waiting for an answer. Between these two extremes there are many who partake more or less of one or the other, and to distinguish between them is a more intricate study than one might imagine...
...sure that the value of knemidology will be apparent. It may be objected, however, that it cannot be applied to the female sex. This is at present true, but do not the modes of hair-dressing that have been in vogue since time immemorial equally prevent the phrenologist from satisfactorily studying his subject...
...this is to me a strong argument in favor of the proposed innovations in female attire. But, even supposing the fashions to remain as they are, I hold that I can support my pretensions to reading character in general fully as well as the average phrenologist; and, as neither his science nor mine satisfactorily solve the problems which may arise concerning women, I should venture to suggest that they might be profitably made the object of podological investigation...