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Will you try to look out for a fit servant for us,—simple of heart, physiognomically handsome, and scientific in vaccimulgence.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.

The explanation of the mode in which the action of the muscles of the face becomes physiognomically expressive.—Ibid.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander

Yet I am told that my eyes, eyebrows, and forehead are physiognomically good; but of this the deponent knoweth not.

From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The Nut If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman

If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman