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  • His features are distinguishable and delicate: you would suppose him appearing to you under the beams of a common candle, or cottage coalfire -- ferruginously opaque.

    Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • His features are distinguishable and delicate: you would suppose him appearing to you under the beams of a common candle, or cottage coalfire -- ferruginously opaque.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • -- was questioned, brows and heels, by a ferruginously -- faced old judge at the momentous period when she carried me.

    Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • -- was questioned, brows and heels, by a ferruginously -- faced old judge at the momentous period when she carried me.

    Vittoria — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • -- was questioned, brows and heels, by a ferruginously -- faced old judge at the momentous period when she carried me.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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