In simplicity, in gentleness, in rectitude, in delicacy of mind, and in all the particulars of what may be termed complexional harmony and healthiness of nature, -- in these they are as much twins as in birth and feature. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference
In simplicity, in gentleness, in rectitude, in delicacy of mind, and in all the particulars of what may be termed complexional harmony and healthiness of nature, ” in these they are as much twins as in birth and feature. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters]
Accordingly, he applied at several, but as often as he applied he was refused employment on the ground of complexional prejudice. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
It may serve, as it often has, to rouse the indolent from the gratification of complexional sloth, and recall the unthinking and irregular from the haunts of dissipation and vice to the blessings of serious reflection. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
This fact came to the public ear, and the trustees of the poorhouse, in accordance with their own convictions and in compliance with the complexional prejudices of the community, discharged the Quaker for this breach of the law. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Some people deny that there is any standard of female beauty; and, at any rate, there is no doubt but that habits and associations, as well as complexional and sentimental considerations, interfere more with our perceptions in respect to this than any other object of taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827] Reference
Some whose natural endowments would, under less unpropitious circumstances, qualify them to reach the summit of fame, are fettered by want of patronage and pecuniary distress, while others are cramped in their efforts by a complexional sensibility which they cannot overcome, and checked in enterprise by diffidence and timidity, the natural offspring of a refined and delicate structure. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
Absolutely pure, delicately medicated, exquisitely perfumed, CUTICURA SOAP produces the whitest, clearest skin and softest hands, and prevents inflammation and clogging of the pores, the cause of pimples, blackheads and most complexional disfigurations, while it admits of no comparison with the best of other skin soaps, and rivals in delicacy the most noted and expensive of toilet and nursery soaps. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
From hence arises the complexional disposition of some of your guides to pull everything in pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference
From hence arifes the complexional difpofition of fome of your guides to pull every thing in pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London ...] Reference
In the difficulties growing out of the existence of slavery and complexional distinctions, he was their counsellor and guide. From Wordnik.com. [Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History] Reference
Newark, the accident of complexional difference but seldom serving to counteract the effects produced by his well-known musical abilities. From Wordnik.com. [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference
Still, as will be seen hereafter, this complexional advantage (?) is not by any means the most important cause of their unprecedented success. From Wordnik.com. [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference
This complexional cha - racter is extremely striking, when contrasted with the suddenness and vivacity of many of our neighbours on the continent. From Wordnik.com. [Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures, (now first collected) to which are added, his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall ; with a preliminary essay, notes, fac-similes, &c.] Reference
Page 159 in our callings, having on their side the odds of complexional sympathy and political influence, from the moment their landing upon our shores. From Wordnik.com. [The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,] Reference
In those faults there is no mixture of deceit, of hypocrisy, of pride, of ferocity, of complexional despotism, or want of feeling for the distresses of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)] Reference
The three men also agreed in suspecting Leopold, though Burke tried to prove that his treachery was not premeditated, but sprang from "some complexional inconstancy.". From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
A politic caution, a guarded circumspection, a moral rather than a complexional timidity, were among the ruling principles of our forefathers in their most decided conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference
But the haze of complexional prejudice has so much obscured the vision of many persons, that they cannot see (at least, there are many who affect not to see) that musical faculties, and power for their. From Wordnik.com. [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference
Constitution of their Provincial Union embodies measures to further promote literature, general intelligence, active benevolence, and the principles of universal freedom, not based on complexional considerations. From Wordnik.com. [The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,] Reference
History and conscience answer no! We do not come to you in a spirt of reproach or denunciation, neither do we feel in pleading for equal rights without regard to complexional differences, that we are in the least degree selfish. From Wordnik.com. [Minutes of the Freedmen's Convention, Held in the City of Raleigh, on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of October, 1866] Reference
Of course, this request was cordially granted; but they and their white friends soon learned that complexional Anti-Slavery societies, as such, were absurdities, to say the least, and hence, such distinctions soon melted into thin air; and if the spirit of. From Wordnik.com. [The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,] Reference
The Declaration of Sentiments denies the right of man to hold property in a brother man, affirms the identity in principle between the African slave trade and American slavery, the imprescriptibility of the rights of the slaves to liberty, the nullity of all laws which run counter to human rights, and the grand doctrine of civil and political equality in the Republic, regardless of race and complexional differences. From Wordnik.com. [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference
(notwithstanding their complexional differences,) and therefore citizens of the United States, with the feeling and spirit becoming freemen, and with the deepest solicitude, respectfully submit. From Wordnik.com. [The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,] Reference
In those faults there is no mixture of deceit, of hypocrisy, of pride, of ferocity, of complexional despotism, or want of feeling for the distress of mankind. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)] Reference
Examine well thy complexional inclinations. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend] Reference
Their charm of relation to each other and to everything else that concerns them, that of the quartette of monuments, is more or less inexpressible all round; but not the least of it, ever, is in their beautiful secret for taking at different hours and seasons, in different states of the light, the sky, the wind, the weather -- in different states, even, it used verily to seem to me, of an admirer's imagination or temper or nerves -- different complexional appearances, different shades and pallors, different glows and chills. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
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