The natives (not the Aborigines, but the 'currency', as they are termed, in distinction from the 'sterling', or British-born residents) are often very good-looking when young; but precocity of growth and premature decay are unfortunately characteristic... Australian Childhood: A History - Page 38by Jan Kociumbas - 1997 - 276 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - New South Wales - 1844 - 182 pages
...often very good-looking when young ; but precocity of growth and premature decay are unfortunately characteristic of the greater portion. The children...young (although very often disfigured by bad teeth) ; but I have seen women of twenty-five or thirty, whose age I should have guessed to be fifty at least.... | |
| American periodicals - 1844 - 584 pages
...imagine, a fashion peculiar to this stamp of exquisites, but among them very popular. THE NASAL ENIGMA. The children are mostly pale and slight, though healthy,...young, although very often disfigured by bad teeth ; but I have seen women of twenty-five or thirty, whose age I should have guessed to be fifty at least.... | |
| Tim Fridtjof Flannery - History - 2000 - 380 pages
...are often very good-looking when young; but precocity of growth and premature decay are unfortunately characteristic of the greater portion. The children...young (although very often disfigured by bad teeth); but I have seen women of twenty-five or thirty, whose age I should have guessed to be fifty at least.... | |
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