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AVERSION withdraws from its object , averts the face with a frown , curls and parts the lips , expands the nostrils , and uses repellent gesture . LOATHING has the same traits more strongly marked . Example . - Aversion .
AVERSION withdraws from its object , averts the face with a frown , curls and parts the lips , expands the nostrils , and uses repellent gesture . LOATHING has the same traits more strongly marked . Example . - Aversion .
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the fiercely - knit brow , glaring eye , expanded nostrils , and curled lips . The action of ( 2. ) aggressive defiance throws the arm violently forward , hand clinched , and the countenance as in ( 1. ) , but marked more by fierce ...
the fiercely - knit brow , glaring eye , expanded nostrils , and curled lips . The action of ( 2. ) aggressive defiance throws the arm violently forward , hand clinched , and the countenance as in ( 1. ) , but marked more by fierce ...
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Wet not thy burning lip In streams that to a human dwelling glide ; Nor rest thee where the covert fountains hide , Nor kneel thee down to dip The water where the pilgrim bends to drink , By desert well , or river's grassy brink .
Wet not thy burning lip In streams that to a human dwelling glide ; Nor rest thee where the covert fountains hide , Nor kneel thee down to dip The water where the pilgrim bends to drink , By desert well , or river's grassy brink .
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| Title | The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
| Author | Warren P. Edgarton |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Mason Brothers, 1860 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2007 |
| Length | 502 pages |
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