He was an ill/favoured young fellow with the scar of some old fight running down his face; the Thames boatmen were ever a battlesome crew.

This surface itself was not entirely homogeneous, but beneath it, seen as through ground glass, there were dim whitish patches or vacuoles, which varied constantly in shape and size.

ill-founded criticism

The media's perception of white needs with regard to the consumption of images of black bodies plays on - in a manner that effortlessly conflates - both the blackophilia (a seductive fascination with racial otherness) and blackophobia (fear and dread of racial otherness) that has always framed the structure and experience of the American racial formation (Yousman 2003; Mercer 1994; Clarke 1991; Rose 1991).