 | Horace Walpole - Great Britain - 1845 - 488 pages
...the House. My ear was struck with sounds I had little been accustomed to of late, virulent abuse on the last reign, and from a voice unknown to me. I...a black, robust man, of a military figure, rather hard-favoured than not young, with a peculiar distortion on one side of his face, which it seems was... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 824 pages
...the House. My ear was struck with sounds I had little been accustomed to of late, virulent abuse on the last reign, and from a voice unknown to me. I...a black, robust man, of a military figure, rather hard-favoured than not, young, with a peculiar distortion on one side of his face, which it seems was... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 618 pages
...the House. My ear was struck with sounds I had been little accustomed to of late, virulent abuse on the last reign, and from a voice unknown to me. I...a black, robust man, of a military figure, rather hard-favored than not, though called to order (in truth unparlmmentarily), he proceeded with the same... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Great Britain - 1845 - 464 pages
...the House. My ear was struck with sounds I had little been accustomed to of late, virulent abuse on the last reign, and from a voice unknown to me. I...saw a face equally new ; a black, robust man, of a miltary figure, rather hard-favoured than not young, with a peculiar distortion on one side of his... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...accustomed to of late, tirulent abuse on the last reign, and from a voice unknown to me. 1 turned Mi saw a face equally new; a black, robust man, of a military 6gure, rather hard-favoured than not young, with a peculiar distortion on one side of his lace, which... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...Walpole : ' My ear was struck with sounds I had little been accustomed to of late — virulent abuse on the last reign, and from a voice unknown to me. I...than not, young, with a peculiar distortion on one aide of his face, which it seems was a bullet lodged loosely in his cheek, and which gave a savage... | |
 | George Thomas Keppel Earl of Albemarle - Great Britain - 1852 - 446 pages
...Walpole. " My ear was struck with sounds I had little been accustomed to of late — virulent abuse on the last reign, — and from a voice unknown to me....a black, robust man, of a military figure, rather hardfavoured than not, young, with a peculiar distortion on one side of his face, which it seems was... | |
 | James Grant - Adventure and adventurers - 1866 - 384 pages
...stage. He was of French extraction, born in Dublin; and was, says "VValpole, "a black, robust man of military figure, rather hard favoured than not; young, with a peculiar distortion on one side of his face, •which, it seems, was owing to a bullet lodged 1 iosely in his cheek, which gave... | |
 | Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice Baron Fitzmaurice - Great Britain - 1875 - 444 pages
...members of which were soon to become very familiar with the Colonel.J He is described at this period as a black robust man, of a military figure, rather hard...than not, young, with a peculiar distortion on one side of his face, which it seems was owing to a bullet lodged loosely in his cheek, and which gave... | |
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My ear was struck with sounds I had little been accustomed to of late, virulent abuse on the last reign, and from a voice unknown to me. I turned, and saw a face equally new ; a black, robust man, of a military figure, rather... 
