In this respect a phrenologist is a pure quack in comparison with a lady in a trance. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Europe] Reference
Aged 11, I was taken by my father to a phrenologist. From Wordnik.com. [Ronald H. Coase - Autobiography] Reference
"Advanced?" said little Herr Bluhm, the phrenologist. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
I'm no phrenologist, but there's something about that guy. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
This puzzled him, as he did not know she was a phrenologist. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The phrenologist pointed to a section at the top of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
The average Irish skull in the hands of a phrenologist will show. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
But one day Mrs. Guinness had brought him in, being a phrenologist, to. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
"It would be much the same as this," replied the phrenologist, producing. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
You might think getting a globe is as relevant as going to see a phrenologist. From Wordnik.com. [Globe-Trot In Style] Reference
Charles Ward is the LNN's Director of Public Relations and resident phrenologist. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Since the visit to the phrenologist, now over a month ago, they had barely spoken. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
To distract herself from her growing dread, Lavinia concentrated on the phrenologist. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
"You used to pretend you were a phrenologist and all that kind of thing at school, I remember.". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference
Hawkins, the inventor of ever-pointed pencils; a civil engineer, poet, preacher, and phrenologist. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
After a minute's pause I regained my power of speech, and inquired whether the phrenologist was ready. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
A verdict was early pronounced on him by an eminent phrenologist who happened to be visiting the family. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came — and went again and left the village duller and drearier than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
"The prosecution calls to the witness box Doctor Jefferies, a noted phrenologist," he announced portentously. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
Thus wrote a professional phrenologist of me, and a friend who was fond of me at the time endorsed it in every word. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
It was cast, from a life mask of 1823 by the phrenologist James Deville, 'as representative of the Imaginative Faculty.'. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Unreason] Reference
Before Esquirol required Gall to make predictions, the phrenologist was free to concoct any explanation to fit the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
The horticulturist reads the peculiarities of the fruit as readily by its color as the phrenologist reads his by his 'bumps.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The phrenologist, therefore, who essays to read your character, must be able to trace the signs of disease in your appearance. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
The phrenologist, now humming triumphantly, rolled up a copy of Lavinia's chart and pressed it into the Colonel's reluctant hands. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
A London phrenologist, and a friendly Oxford Professor of poetry, quieted. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
A phrenologist would have delighted in the study of that remarkable head. From Wordnik.com. [The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service] Reference
He would have felt your head if he had stopped, for he is a great phrenologist. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
Harriet Martineau, Dr. Combe, the phrenologist, and many other distinguished persons. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
A phrenologist, who examined my head when I was a boy, said the two sides were unlike. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Teacups] Reference
There was an American practising phrenology, when a phrenologist arrived from England. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series Two] Reference
A London phrenologist, and a friendly Oxford Professor of poetry, quieted Sir Austin's fears. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
No phrenologist ever conceived half the number of bumps that were developed on his luckless cranium. From Wordnik.com. [Sunk at Sea] Reference
A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came -- and went again and left the village duller and drearier than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5.] Reference
You are somewhat of a phrenologist, I judge, by the way you talk of instinctive and inherited tendencies -- I said. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Now, although Bourgonef, who was not a phrenologist, might be convinced of the absence of ferocious instincts in Ivan, to me, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
It was called Lavater Cottage, as it had belonged to that famous phrenologist, and he had been in the habit of staying there regularly. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 2] Reference
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