 | Fanny Burney, Charles Burney - 1832 - 416 Seiten
...his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he has a singular method of twirling his fingers, and twisting his hands...person so prejudiced in his favour as I am, how I must more than ever reverence his abilities, when I tell you that, upon asking my father why he had... | |
 | Fanny Burney, Charles Burney - 1832 - 546 Seiten
...his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he has a singular method of twirling his fingers, and twisting his hands...a person so prejudiced in his favour as I am, how Ijnust more than ever reverence his abilities, when I tell you that, upon asking my father why he had... | |
 | 1832 - 952 Seiten
...hia mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he lias a singular method of twirling his fingers, and twisting his hands...were going to roll itself, quite voluntarily, from hie chair to the floor. * • " Bat you always charge me to write without reserve or nervation, and... | |
 | 1833 - 460 Seiten
...; his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something; he has a singular method of twirling his fingers, and twisting his hands...itself, quite voluntarily, from his chair to the floor. * * * But you always charge me to write without reserve or reservation, and sol obey as usual. Else,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 594 Seiten
...his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he has a singular method of twirling his fingers and twisting his hands...itself quite voluntarily from his chair to the floor. . . . His dress, considering the times, and that he had meant to put on all his best-becomes, for he... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 596 Seiten
...his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he has a singular method of twirling his fingers and twisting his hands...itself quite voluntarily from his chair to the floor. . . . His dress, considering the times, and that he had meant to put on all his best-becomes, for he... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1833 - 586 Seiten
...his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he has a singular method of twirling his fingers and twisting his hands...itself quite voluntarily from his chair to the floor. . . . His dress, considering the times, and that he had meant to put on all his best-becomes, for he... | |
 | Adam Waldie - 1833 - 640 Seiten
...his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he has a singular method of twirling his fingers, and twisting his hands...whole great person looked often as if it were going to rolk itself; quite voluntarily, from his chair to the floor. " Since such is his appearance to a person... | |
 | 1833 - 462 Seiten
...his fingers, and twisting his hands ; his vast hody is in constant agitation, see-sawing hackwards and forwards ; his feet are never a moment quiet ;...itself, quite voluntarily, from his chair to the floor. * * * But you always charge me to write witho ut reserve or reservation, and so I obey as usual. Else,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 Seiten
...his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he has a singular method of twirling his fingers, and twisting his hands...itself, quite voluntarily, from his chair to the floor. His dress, considering the times, and that he had meant to put on all his best becomes, for he was... | |
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... he is, indeed, very ill-favoured ! Yet he has naturally a noble figure ; tall, stout, grand, and authoritative : but he stoops horribly ; his back is quite round : his mouth is continually opening and shutting, as if he were chewing something ; he... 
