 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...left his instructor, to commence house-keeping — Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks...gracefully, like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...left his instructor, to commence house-keeping — Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, like a phenicoptcros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and tecth are moderate respectively in quantity... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - India - 1866 - 558 pages
...hereditary diseases. " Let him," says this wise institute, " choose for his wife a girl whose form has no defect, who has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully, like a Phenicopteros, or like a young elephant (a doubtful compliment when we remember Momus's criticism on goddess of love), whose hair and teeth... | |
 | 1868 - 942 pages
...members have been subject to hereditary disease. Let a person choose for his wife a girl whose person has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, like a young elephant ; whoso hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; and whose... | |
 | 1868 - 844 pages
...members have been subject to hereditary disease. Let a person choose for his wife a girl whose person has no defect; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; and whose... | |
 | Manu, Graves Champney Haughton - Hindu law - 1869 - 366 pages
...nor with any name raising an image of terrour. 10. Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks...gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite... | |
 | 1870 - 1172 pages
...immoderately talkative ; nor one with inflamed i eyes. Let him choose for his wife a girl whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopterus, or like a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quality... | |
 | Folklore - 1870 - 388 pages
...members have been subject to hereditary disease. Let a person choose for his wife a girl whose person has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate in quantity and in size ; and whose body is of exquisite... | |
 | India - 1881 - 838 pages
...nor one with any name raising an image of terror. " Let him choose for his wife a girl whoso form has no defect; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, like a phenicoptorus, or like a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity... | |
 | James Bradbury - India - 1884 - 276 pages
...Speaking of marriage, Monoo says : " Let the twice-born man choose for his wife a girl whose form has no defect, who has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully, like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are 1 Monoo, iii. 4, 5. 2 Ibid. xi. 61 ; iii. 170. moderate respectively... | |
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Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite... 
