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

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.

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.

He downed it at the seven-yard line.