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The nose would have been a despised model for a Grecian; the mouth not dollishly small, yet small, firm-set, the firmness being saved from shrewish suggestion by an upward ending of the lips.

From The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir