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Strength of body, and that character of countenance, which the French term a physionomie, women do not acquire before thirty, any more than men.
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Strength of body, and that character of countenance, which the French term a physionomie, women do not acquire before thirty, any more than men.
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Strength of body, and that character of countenance, which the French term a physionomie, women do not acquire before thirty, any more than men.
Chap. IV 1792
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May 15 and Sept. 15, 1908, and La physionomie nouvelle de la question austro-hongroise, in _Questions
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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At any rate you have, I repeat, _la physionomie du role_, and you can't be far astray if you act up to it.
Phyllis of Philistia Frank Frankfort Moore 1893
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Autre physionomie intéressante, celle de Lord Shaftesbury, un beau type d'aristocrate, au physique comme au moral, très sensible et compatissant, un philanthrope bon et loyal, anti-esclavagiste militant.
Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Une physionomie plus curieuse était celle de Lord Russell, plein d'anecdotes, spirituel, souvent froid en apparence, à l'occasion éloquent.
Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886
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On ne peut faire une bonne physionomie (in a portrait) qu'en accordant toutes nos contrariétés.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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Le Colonel Tupper etait un homme d'une grande bravoure et d'un esprit eclaire; ses formes etaient athletiques, et l'expression de sa physionomie pleine de franchise.
The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock Tupper, Frederick B 1845
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Pierre donc etait un homme petit, d'une physionomie peu agreable; mais il avait ce courage, cette constance, cet enthousiasme, cette energie de sentiment qui ecrase toute opposition, et qui fait que la volonte d'un seul homme devient la loi de toute une nation.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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