Lavater
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Attorney LaVater Massie-Banks said at Monday’s hearing that Shanteari Weems’s actions were more deliberate.
From Washington Post
Physiognomy was popularized during Ducreux’s lifetime by Johann Kaspar Lavater, who wrote a tract illustrated in the English edition with drawings by William Blake and Johann Heinrich Fuseli of various facial “types” set against neutral backgrounds.
From Washington Post
The boldness of some of his ideas cost him some valuable friendships, as that of Jacobi, Lavater and even of his early teacher Hamann.
From Project Gutenberg
At length Harvey appeared, followed by his confederate, Harry Saxon; and it would have given sincere pleasure to a disciple of Lavater to see how well this worthy's countenance corresponded with his actions.
From Project Gutenberg
Of the good Lavater he soon perceived the weakness.
From Project Gutenberg
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