 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 Maritime and Inland Discovery - Side 311av William Desborough Cooley - 1830Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1837 - 446 sider
...467, 468. they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads,...half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, so that they never open their eyes as other people ; and therefore they cannot see far, unless they... | |
 | John Lort Stokes - 1846 - 580 sider
...unpleasant expression of their countenance, and quite justifies the correctness of Dampier's account : — " Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here, that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face ; and without... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1847 - 602 sider
...humane shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads,...half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here, that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face, and without... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 240 sider
...straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; the eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes. They have great bottle-noses, pretty full lips, and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth of their upper... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 246 sider
...straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; the eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes. They have great bottle-noses, pretty full lips, and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth of their upper... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 1108 sider
...straight-bodied, and thin, with small long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. The eye-lids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes. * * * They have great bottle noses, pretty full lips, and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth of their... | |
 | Richard Henry Major - 1859 - 356 sider
...from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small long limbs. They have great head, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are...half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from coming to ones face ; and without... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - 1865 - 710 sider
...human shape, they differ but little from brutes. Thev are tall, strait-bodied and thin, with small long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads,...always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes : they being so troublesome here, that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face, and without... | |
 | William Howitt - 1865 - 450 sider
...little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are...always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes ; they being so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's faces : and -without... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 444 sider
...religion or government. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great round foreheads and great brows. Their eyelids are...always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face. So that, from... | |
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