 This woman, at no great distance, might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour; but she said she was only twenty-eight.  The Works of Lord Morley - Page 212by John Morley - 1921Full view - About this book
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 654 pages
...other taxes." The poor woman was only twenty-eight years of age, but she might, " at no great distance, have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour." She said that she heard that something was to be... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 576 pages
...God send us better, car les failles et les droits nous ecrasent." This woman, at no great distance, might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour ; Jbut she said she was only twenty-eight. An Englishman,... | |
 | 1876 - 638 pages
...God send us better, far le» taillet et let droiti nov» ecrasent." This woman, at no great distance, might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour ; but she said she was only twenty-eight. An Englishman,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1876 - 452 pages
...Young, who stops to talk with one of these in Champagne, says that " this woman, at no great distance, might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent and her face so hardened and furrowed by labor,— but she said she was only twenty-eight." This woman,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - France - 1876 - 456 pages
...Young, who stops to talk with one of these in Champagne, says that " this woman, at no great distance, might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent and her face so hardened and furrowed by labor, — but she said she was only twenty-eight." This woman,... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 606 pages
...God send us better, car les failles et les droils nous ecrasent." This woman, at no great distance, might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour ; but she said she was only twenty-eight. An Englishman,... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 194 pages
...boy seeking what he may devour ? Л WHEN PEOPLE write hymns of pity for Marie Antoinette, we always recall the poor woman whom Arthur Young met as he...she might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figures were so bent, her face so furrowed and hardened by toil. Her husband, she said, had a morsel... | |
 | John Wilson (reviewer.) - 1881 - 482 pages
...God send us better, car Us tallies el les droite nous tcrasent.' This woman, at no great distance, might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour; but she said she was only twenty-eight. An Englishman... | |
 | University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1904 - 426 pages
...oppressive feudal dues and heavy taxes crushing them down, he says : "This woman at no great distance might have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent and her face so furrowed and hardened by labor, but she said she was only twenty-eight."2 There was... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1889 - 472 pages
...foiled his manoeuvres at Grandpre' but a few days later ; the victory of Valuny saved the Republic. have been taken for sixty or seventy, her figure was so bent, and her face so furrowed and hardened by labour, — but she said she was only twenty-eight. An Englishman... | |
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