His eyes were darkest blue, the eyebrows and long disjoining eyelashes being very dark over them, which made their colour precious.

The nose was straight and forward from the brows; a fluent black moustache ran with the curve of the upper lip, and lost its line upon a smooth olive cheek.

The upper lip was firmly supported by the under, and the chin stood freely out from a fine neck and throat.
After a space an Austrian war-steamer was discerned puffing out of the harbour of Laveno.
"That will do," said the old man.

"Carlo, thou son of Paolo, we will stump upward once more.

Tell me, hulloa, sir! are the best peaches doomed to entertain vile, domiciliary, parasitical insects?
I ask you, does nature exhibit motherly regard, or none, for the regions of the picturesque?
None, I say.