 Hodmadods have: and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to...  The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the ... - Page 66by William Howitt - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...strait bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and g*eat brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep...that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face ; and without the assistance of both hands to keep them off, they will creep into one's nostrils,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...houses, and clothes; black, tall, thin, straight bodied, 'with small limbs, great heads, and heavy brows.' Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, which are here so troublesome, that no fanning will drive them away from the face ; and without the... | |
 | William Desborough Cooley - Discoveries (in geography) - 1830 - 386 pages
...or poultry ; their persona are tall, straight bodied, thin, with long limbs; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows; their eyelids are...always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face), so that, from their... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - America - 1831 - 476 pages
...from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied and thin, with long small limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eye-lids are...always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, so that they never open their eyes like other people ; and therefore they cannot see far, unless they... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...or poultry ; their persons are tall, straight-bodied, thin, with long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; their eyelids are...always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face), so that, from their... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1833 - 502 pages
...nor poultry; their persons are tall, straight bodied, thin, with long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; their eyelids are...always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face,) so that, from their... | |
 | William Henry Breton - Aboriginal Australians - 1834 - 446 pages
...nor poultry ; their persons are tall, straight bodied, thin, with long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; their eyelids are...always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face,) so that, from their... | |
 | William Henry Breton - Australia - 1835 - 454 pages
...nor poultry; their persons are tall, straight bodied, thin, with long limbs; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; their eyelids are...always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face,) so that, from their... | |
 | John Lort Stokes - Australia - 1846 - 580 pages
...unpleasant expression of their countenance, and quite justifies the correctness of Dampier's account : — " Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the...that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face ; and without the 100 PLAGUE OF FLIES. assistance of both hands to keep them off, they will creep... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - Anthropology - 1847 - 602 pages
...from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are...that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face, and without the assistance of both hands to keep them off, they will creep into one's nostrils,... | |
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