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And then Mr. Raymond laughed, and told Roland what he thought of Isabel, phrenologically and otherwise.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Were we to speak of Addison phrenologically, we should say that, next to veneration, wit, and ideality, his principal faculties were caution and secretiveness.
He is remarkable, phrenologically, for evenness of development; none of the organs are extreme, and he is not inclined to those excesses which cause eccentricity.
From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Ballou, Maturin Murray
We had previously examined the head of one of them phrenologically.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
The pigeon-pie was not bad, but it was a delusive pie: the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.
From David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles
