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"Desinit in atrum piscem," said the Baron warmly, "your beginning promised something better." "How many persons," proceeded Brandenstein calmly, "have fallen in my way, who almost at the first bow gave me to understand that they were extraordinary Christians.
So far, you may say, there is nothing suspicious or very outlandish about his rig; but turpiter desinit formosus superne, there is something highly remarkable á continuacion. Do you see that blanket which is drawn tightly up, fore and aft, toward his waist, and, there confined by means of a belt which his querida has richly ornamented for him, falls over in uneven folds like an abbreviated kilt?
And in truth, what are these things I scribble, other than grotesques and monstrous bodies, made of various parts, without any certain figure, or any other than accidental order, coherence, or proportion? "Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne."
Let us not be more uncharitable than the painter or the sculptor, but pass on without pausing to reflect Desinit in piscem. If one had wanted to find a fault in Constance Brandon's beauty, I suppose it would have been that her forehead was too high, and her lips too thin and decided in their expression, especially when compressed under any strong feeling.
There's a gran' tough beam here ayont the ingle, will haud me a' crouse and cantie, when the time comes." "What on earth do you mean?" asked we both together. "Ha' ye looked into the monster-petition?" "Of course we have, and signed it too!" "Monster? Ay, ferlie! Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne.
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