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  • He looked at them, his wellshaped mouth open happily, his eyes, from which he had suddenly withdrawn all shrewd sense, blinking with mad gaiety.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Glacier-blue eyes swept her; it was as though he could see through the blanket to her small but wellshaped breasts, the slender waist and smoothly rounded hips of which she was circumspectly proud.

    MEMORY’S EMBRACE Linda Lael Miller 1986

  • Glacier-blue eyes swept her; it was as though he could see through the blanket to her small but wellshaped breasts, the slender waist and smoothly rounded hips of which she was circumspectly proud.

    MEMORY’S EMBRACE Linda Lael Miller 1986

  • "Besides," she held out a wellshaped leg in a sheer stocking, "I've got my best stockings on."

    A Murder Is Announced Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1950

  • It was a neat and wellshaped little racket and discovery, as the broker admitted, would have exposed them to legal action.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • Whenever she moved her wellshaped head it would stir stiffly to and fro on her back.

    Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1922

  • He looked at them, his wellshaped mouth open happily, his eyes, from which he had suddenly withdrawn all shrewd sense, blinking with mad gaiety.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Whenever she moved her wellshaped head it would stir stiffly to and fro on her back.

    Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1903

  • Thus we find, that though every one, but especially women, are apt to contract a kindness for criminals, who go to the scaffold, and readily imagine them to be uncommonly handsome and wellshaped; yet one, who is present at the cruel execution of the rack, feels no such tender emotions; but is in a manner overcome with horror, and has no leisure to temper this uneasy sensation by any opposite sympathy.

    A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

  • Thus we find, that though every one, but especially women, are apt to contract a kindness for criminals, who go to the scaffold, and readily imagine them to be uncommonly handsome and wellshaped; yet one, who is present at the cruel execution of the rack, feels no such tender emotions; but is in a manner overcome with horror, and has no leisure to temper this uneasy sensation by any opposite sympathy.

    A Treatise of Human Nature 1739

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