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New physiognomy (1867)

Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 327

An illustration from New physiognomy, 1867, leaf 327
d no more proceed.—Shakspeare. The untrained, blunt, coarse bog-trotter (fig. 423) walksheavily upon his heels in parlor, church, or kitchen, his gaitbeing more like that of a horse on a bridge than likethat of the cultivated gentleman. The slow, heavy tramp ofthe iron-shod hedger and ditcher is in… … get walk; thefied walk;walk; the The humble man has a humbledignified man, a dijmi-the vain man, a vainhopeful man, a light,buoyant, hopeful walk; the despond-ing, hopeless man, a dragging, hope-less step, as though he were goingto prison rather than to his duty;the executive man, an executivewalk,…

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