Lavater
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A considerable period elapsed before he again appeared as an author, when he satirised Lavater in a novel called the Physiognomical Travels.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
Lavater says the handsomest painter produces the handsomest pictures; and I say, fair hands write a fair hand.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
In the faces of the trio seated at the table a physiognomist might find interesting study, and note expressions that would puzzle Lavater himself.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
Still, it needed to be no Lavater to see, by the passionate gleam of her eyes and the haughty pride on her brow, that Beatrice Boville was not happy.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
Whilst his father had resisted the arguments and persuasion of Lavater to take this step, he declared:—"Formerly I was the son of my father, now I am the father of my son."
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
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