He downed it at the seven-yard line.

I could not see the [Russian] Embassador in his coach; but his attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men […] But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange. (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.

The face was white and thoroughly bloodless with some kind of foundation cream; it stank of powder and a gardenia-like perfume.

She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.