How To Use Complexion In A Sentence
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After only a few minutes my normally florid complexion had begun to resemble Florida.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had a thin face, a pasty complexion and a long thin nose.
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Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA.
Your Right Hand Thief
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If that had gone in the game would have taken on a different complexion.
The Sun
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A pale complexion can also signal iron deficiency anaemia.
The Sun
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He is described as white, about six feet two inches tall aged in his mid to late 30s. with a large build, a shaved head, a ruddy complexion and a distinctive Liverpool accent.
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The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
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Ritu had been chosen on account of her suitable family background and her fair complexion.
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The shaken man described one of the attackers as thin, in his early 20s, with long thin face and a Mexican-style moustache and sallow complexion.
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You had used only a subtle taupe pencil, which I would have thought would wash out my fair complexion.
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The problem is much bigger than the identity of the minister or the political complexion of the government.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her smooth black hair fell around her shoulders, and her cream-coloured dress nearly matched her pale complexion.
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Can she really be as flawless as her complexion?
Times, Sunday Times
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Pronger and Blake can change the complexion of the game just by being on the ice, and believe me, they will be on the ice a lot.
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the tawniness of his complexion
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I have been told that many of them wear patent complexions, "boughten" bangs, and pad out scrawny forms until they appear voluptuous Junos, and thereby deceive and ensnare, bedazzle and beguile the unsuspecting sons of men.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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Can she really be as flawless as her complexion?
Times, Sunday Times
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'Oh, no, 'said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny,' the harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap. He never eats dumplings, he don't -- he eats nothing but steaks, and likes 'em rare. '
Moby-Dick, or, The Whale
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The complexion of the former class is that which we call a brunette, and the skin is most delicately smooth and soft.
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
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Indeed, the hermetics symbolized a particular altered state—a kind of specialized trance—as a lady of dark complexion.53
The Templar Revelation
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He had dark chestnut brown hair without a receding hairline, and eyes, and his skin had an almost olive complexion.
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Drinking lots of water is good for the complexion.
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Retinol can help skin cells turn over faster so you won't have a lackluster complexion in the A.M.
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Whiteside is described as 5ft 6in tall, slim, with short hair which is balding on top and going grey on sides, a sallow complexion and brown eyes.
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Local factors complicated identities and made remoteness from the centre an unreliable guide to political complexion.
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It brightens your complexion and gives skin a youthful glow.
The Sun
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She does look warm and pretty next to pasty Edward, but his palid complexion is just frightening here. the previous poster was much more appealling, alluring, and more likely for viewers to actually ditch their old movies and take this one. ilovethecullens (10/9/2008 5: 19: 17 PM) i dont really like it, they could've done a lot better
Final ‘Twilight’ Poster Hits Net. What Do You Think? » MTV Movies Blog
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Peachy tones look great on most complexions (or dab a bronzy shade on eyelids, cheekbones and lips), while a frosty white tone adds instant sexiness to darker complexions.
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She had a wide, laughing mouth, searching grey eyes and the kind of peachy complexion most New York women would kill for.
Black Blade
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Boucher's shepherdesses are not quite those manufactured in Nymphenburg and Meissen, although their complexions have something of the translucency of porcelain, whilst his herdsmen are streamlined terracotta.
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You will see copper complexions and the lighter shades of pale.
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Nam in hoc quod patres corrupti sunt, generant filios corruptae complexionis, et compositionis, et filii eorum eadem de causa se corrumpunt, et sic derivatur corruptio a patribus ad filios.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Dirty grey curls covered his head, and his complexion was off-white, like lard.
TOY SHOP
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The attacker was slim with a very pale complexion.
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Nimitz, calm in demeanor and courteous in speech, with blue eyes, a pink complexion, and tow-colored hair turning white, was a fortunate appointment.
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For person and complexion they haue broade and flatte visages, of a tanned colour into yellowe and blacke, fierce and cruell lookes, thinne haired vpon the upper lippe, and pitte of the chinne, light and nimble bodied, with short legges, as if they were made naturally for horsemen: whereto they practise themselues from their childhood, seldome going afoot about anie businesse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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THE Bible contains the history of the human race in epitome; is the mirror in which every age and every generation may see reflected its own features and complexion.
Moses and Joshua
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Despite his blue eyes, fresh complexion and luxuriant white hair, he often sought reassurance about his appearance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old image of snooker is of seedy, smoky, dimly-lit halls filled with sallow-complexioned men, pint in one hand, cigarette in the other as they wait their turn at the table.
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Her Italian background blessed her with a clear, dark olive complexion and deep russet hair.
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In the shadowless white light, the priest looked pale and careworn, and his usually florid complexion seemed drained of colour.
GRACE
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His girlfriend was very pretty with a flawless complexion and hair the colour of new parchment.
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She had a fresh complexion and a bubbly attitude that made her perfect for the part.
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I half-thought some of these players' natural complexions were gray before watching this.
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She was glowing, with the sort of peachy complexion that makes the words ‘baby’ and ‘bottom’ spring to mind.
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But to give yourself the best chance of retaining a fresh and flawless complexion as you age, you need to look after your skin.
The Sun
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In the East the progressive revolt had a more decidedly urban complexion.
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He is described as being medium build with a fair complexion and light brown hair.
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And she told me, after she had looked it all over and said it wuz kinder thin and slazy, and checkered shawls had gone out of fashion, and the black looked some as if it would fade with washin ', and the white wuzn't over clear, and the colors wuzn't no ways becomin' to her complexion, and etcetery, etcetery.
Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3
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By simple and natural, I mean your makeup palette should be suited to your complexion and should change with each season.
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Her hair was the bright golden colour of sunflowers and she had a rosy complexion.
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Brown hair turning gray in spots, a round, cheerful face with the field anthropologist 's leathery complexion.
THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
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These are radical changes which will alter the complexion of the British contemporary dance scene.
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It keeps my complexion flawless - it's not a big deal and takes five minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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My only worry is, I don't think orange is a colour that suits my complexion.
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The offender is said to be in his early 20s, six feet tall and slim with a pale complexion and dark mousy hair.
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His father had brown eyes and hair; his own eyes were hazel, his hair “sandy red-brown,” his complexion that of a “freckly-faced, sunburning kind of guy.”
A Claim to Camelot
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And talking about a beneficial effect upon a woman's complexion, let me mention once again the exceeding becomingness of the new shades of blue, these being rather of the sugar-paper order of blue, but a little lighter in colour perhaps, yet having that vivid tone about it.
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I must ingenuously confess," he says, "that I have a natural touch of enthusiasm, in my complexion, but such as I thank God was ever governable enough, and have found at length perfectly subduable.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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He has brown eyes, a fresh complexion, is of stocky build and is generally of casual appearance.
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His hair is brown, a mass of curls that are almost too long for SAP's dress code, and he has a dark, kind of olive complexion.
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For a moment I thought it must be an exclusive brothel, for we were in a great salon all plush and gilt and mirrors, with thick carpet and velvet divans and curtains looped back by silver cords, and Junoesque females of perfect complexion drifting about.
THE NUMBERS
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This high performance oil free eye gel derived from plant sources that are rich in proteic fraction, flavonoids and tannins helps to induce brighter complexion by helping skin recover its firmness.
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It was the movement of a small, fat, middle aged woman with a scarlet complexion, piggy eyes and a collapsing perm.
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If that had gone in the game would have taken on a different complexion.
The Sun
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If you've been treating your complexion well, a dab of concealer over redness around the nose and mouth plus a dusting of loose powder will suffice.
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You favour your father, and white always sets off a brown complexion.
Wives and Daughters
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Mine is a friendship that neither distance nor tune can efface, which is probably the reason that, for the soul of me, I can't avoid thinking yours of the same complexion; and yet I have many reasons for being of a contrary opinion, else why, in so long an absence, was I never made a partner in your concerns?
Oliver Goldsmith
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Amber had light caramel brown hair and hazel eyes, she was tall with milky white skin and rosy complexion.
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Look at your complexion and the colour of your teeth and eyes to determine which shade suits you best.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, Manos's Master may look like a weenie with his slim build, pasty complexion, and prominent cheek bones, but the mustache is our first clue that he's a lady killer (literally).
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This resulted in symptoms of shortness of breath and a lusterless facial complexion.
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Oh no, Selena, it brings out the yellow undertones in you complexion far too much.
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His eye was caught by an attractive, copper-complexioned crewwoman with long dark hair in a ponytail, and he turned to watch her pass.
Battlestar Galactica
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I blush, the warm heat flooding over my cheeks, changing my normally lily-white complexion to a pink, and take my place with the rest of the squad.
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This distribution of patronage is an important component in the president's political armoury, since by his choices he determines the political complexion of the government.
The Government and Politics of France
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Jenna was wearing a tint of make up although with her complexion she didn't need it and her hair was done with half her hair up in a topsy tail while the rest hung down the nape of her neck.
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One mom who can't quite reconcile Connie's brown skin and black hair with my green-eyed blonde complexion asks indiscreetly, “Peruvian adoption?” to which I simply nod instead of asking, “Fertility treatments?” about the squalling brood in her triple-wide stroller.
The Uninvited Guest
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Her sparkling jewellery served as the perfect foil for her fine complexion.
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But a high nose, a full, decided, well-opened, quick grey eye, and a sanguine complexion, made amends for some coarseness and irregularity in the subordinate parts of the face; so that, altogether, Montrose might be termed rather a handsome, than a hard-featured man.
A Legend of Montrose
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Red does not suit with her complexion.
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His complexion had darkened, sallowed; his black moustache had lost boldness, become sardonic; there were lines which she did not know about his face.
In Chancery
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And for centuries it has been said to purge toxins from the body and give a glowing complexion.
The Sun
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The blue colour slightly toned down a red complexion and it improved skin condition over two weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fall of the wicket brought Vowles to the crease and the game changed complexion.
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The pottingar delivered his opinion in a most insinuating manner; but he seemed to shrink into something less than his natural tenuity when he saw the blood rise in the old cheek of Simon Glover, and inflame to the temples the complexion of the redoubted smith.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Margaret's skin was a lighter shade of olive that was so smooth that she was the envy of all the other girls, purely for her complexion.
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Under the mess, she was fair-complexioned with pale blond hair.
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Eli reminded me of an older Bob Dylan, his size and wan complexion and his face.
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The girl had a milky white complexion, dotted with light freckles that matched her hair.
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More procedures may be required for advanced baldness or for individuals with very dark hair and fair complexion.
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Because of this, the people of these places have naturally developed different physiques, complexions, customs, clothing and food.
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His complexion was mottled red and white, as if somebody had applied suction cups to it, and he was staring stonily, blindly straight ahead.
NO BODY
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The peace was regulated, and thereby preserved, by the altered political complexion of Germany.
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He was described as having ‘a sickly, pasty complexion’.
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And he wears that corpse-like complexion remarkably well.
Friday list: On the eve of 'Eclipse,' a rundown of vampires who just want to have fun
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Arlack possessed a most splendid squint with both eyes, so that it was often observed he would make a capital cook, as he could always keep one eye on the pot while he surveyed the intricacies of the chimney with the other; and, to complete the catalogue of his complexional recommendations, his face was absolutely furrowed, seamed and gashed until it had nearly lost a human shape by the pitiless assaults of the smallpox.
Ralph Rashleigh
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This was topped up with a bristly white moustache, a ruddy complexion and blue eyes.
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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.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827
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All over campus are people whose complexions have turned from pale to florid in the space of just a few days.
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It helps you to produce collagen, which improves your complexion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Darker skin and Asian complexions Fitzpatrick Types 3 to 6 are prone to ill effects—primarily postinflammatory hypo- or hyperpigmentation or PIH—from stronger peels, especially melanotoxic TCA.
Simple Skin Beauty
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His eyes were cold grey pebbles against the ancient parchment of his complexion.
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When I randomly opened the first volume in the Charing Cross bookshop, this is what I read: Her complexion was exquisitely fair; and it was a disadvantage to her beauty that the fashions of the day obliged her to hide the color and texture of her fine silver tresses under a load of powder and pomatum.
The most unusual book in your house.
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I have a pale complexion but would love to get a suntan - people with brown skin look so much healthier.
Times, Sunday Times
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The intense pallor of his complexion, tightly cropped ginger hair, and prominent Adam's apple, only emphasised his lack of stature.
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While Mrs. Vesey and Miss Halcombe were richly clad (each in the manner most becoming to her age), the first in silver-grey, and the second in that delicate primrose-yellow colour which matches so well with a dark complexion and black hair, Miss Fairlie was unpretendingly and almost poorly dressed in plain white muslin.
The Woman in White
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It was not the complexion of a domestic goddess.
Times, Sunday Times
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Homer Plessy of Plessy v Ferguson fame, though of fair complexion, was officially an “octaroon” in the eyes of thatstate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Louisiana Justice of the Peace Refuses to Issue Marriage License for Interracial Couple:
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Liz looked at her beautiful child and wished that Beth had inherited the fairness of her complexion and the straightness of her hair from George.
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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.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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She was rather fat, and her complexion was muddy and spotty.
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Signs to look out for in babies or infants include a high-pitched moaning or whimpering cry, a blank, staring expression and pale, blotchy complexion.
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Fatigue and stress quickly result in a dull complexion and a furrowed brow.
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It sinks in skin - good for oily complexions.
The Sun
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Lasting one hour and 45 minutes, it is designed to leave the complexion glowing and the client relaxed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The victim of the first attempted burglary described the intruder as in his mid 30s, with a ruddy complexion, sandy hair, and wearing black gloves and a light shirt.
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For heads that are disposed unto Schism and complexionally propense to innovation, are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will be ever confined unto the order or oeconomy of one body; and therefore, when they separate from others, they knit but loosely among themselves; nor contented with a general breach or dichotomy with their Church do subdivide and mince themselves almost into Atoms.
Religio Medici
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Foods like fish, avocados and nuts contain healthful fats that are good for a glowing complexion.
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The heart of a moonbeam is a pretty enough Friendship's-Album expression -- let it pass, though I do think the figure a little strained; but humility has no tint, humility has no complexion, and if it had it could not mantle the earth.
Christian Science
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The face is large and full, the complexion pale and often not very clear, being subject to skin disorders.
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The perfect complexion, bedroom eyes and Greek statue-like features, coupled with all the right poses, and with a nose for scenting a camera as highly developed as a tiger senses prey, all suggests total femininity, even if his long blonde hair has been teased into a French pleat, and resembles what he calls "granny chic.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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A sudden pale complexion with cold sweat is the sign of sudden prostration of yang qi due to febrile diseases caused by exogenous pathogenic wind-cold.
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That, obviously, would have changed the complexion of the whole game.
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The setting sun complexioned the hills
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And even in the south there remained regions, such as the Wicklow uplands, which were still Gaelic in social complexion.
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If his ruddy complexion and beaming smile was anything to go by, he loved it.
Times, Sunday Times
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No hastier retreat was ever beaten, and I took away with me the haunting image of the bland expressions and the horribly pallid complexions of the people staring at us through the chained door, their eyes piercing through you, their skin so white and deathly.
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Those vivid green eyes stood out against his fair complexion and dark hair.
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Skin texture is smoothed and refined, and the complexion becomes more even, translucent and bright.?
Vichy Laboratories, the #1 Skincare Brand in European Pharmacies, Expands to Southern California
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Once the flight crew announces descension, spruce up with a swipe of complexion-lifting lipstick, eye-defining shadow and bronzing highlighter.
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Keep blusher to a minimum and use either soft pink or peachy tones, depending on your complexion.
The Sun
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Obvious secondary sexual characteristics moderated manliness: height, strength, deep voice, dark hair and complexion all imbued masculinity.
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That would change the complexion and tone of campaigning considerably.
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a ruddy complexion
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a fair complexion
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With a fair complexion such as yours, you need only the faintest hint of colour in a pencil.
Times, Sunday Times
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The joke took on a rather serious complexion when the police became involved.
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Northumberland are lusty fellows, fresh complexioned, cleanly, and well cloathed; but the labourers in Scotland are generally lank, lean, hard-featured, sallow, soiled, and shabby, and their little pinched blue caps have a beggarly effect.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Physically, the pure Aymara is short and thick-set, with a great chest development, and with the same reddish complexion, broad face, black eyes and rounded forehead which distinguish the Quichuas.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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Dry patches, irritation and flaky skin are signs your complexion is feeling the pressure.
The Sun
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They look fabulous against olive complexions and can also give you a really dramatic look if you are a redhead.
The Sun
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The fairness of his complexion is revealed by his habitation among the flowers; for he dwells not amid bloomless or fading beauties, whether of body or soul or aught else, but in the place of flowers and scents, there he sits and abides.
Thispain Diary Entry
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Her race is run, her thread is spun, her goose is cooked, and any other trope you please; for what signifies all the white lead at the 'pothecary's compared to the warm brown of Maria's complexion and her long eyelashes!
The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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All I can make out is that she has black hair and eyes, a fair complexion, and a very bad temper.
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The cheek, weather-beaten and embrowned, had lost the glow of youth, but showed the vigorous complexion of active and confirmed manhood.
The Abbot
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The small man with the sallow complexion and expressionless eyes seems to have made no particular impression on anyone with whom he came into contact during that time.
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Add tourmaline to your complexion after any of these masks - the mineral helps boost radiance and also delivers moisture to the skin.
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His pale complexion and ashen hair gave him an almost ghost-like appearance.
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Moretti had a smooth complexion the colour of clotted cream and a face full of cinnamon freckles.
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She has a poor complexion and pock marks on her forehead.
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They come in all sizes (one, two, and multi-volumes), colours (social, economic, political complexion), and shapes (hardcover, softcover, electronic).
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For example, if you have a warm complexion (yellow or olive tones), select colors with names like auburn, copper, red or sienna.
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Her pale complexion and striking eyes, inherited from her beloved Scottish father, have made Kathaleeya McIntosh one of Thailand's most beautiful and bankable stars.
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The blue colour slightly toned down a red complexion and it improved skin condition over two weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The results: After 2 weeks of use, my complexion is exfoliated, smooth, and bright, without the telltale redness I've come to expect from a peel.
Pandora Young: January's Best Beauty Finds
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She had dark hair pulled roughly back and a noticeably bad complexion.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had waist length brown hair, with hazel eyes, high cheekbones and a fair complexion.
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Their complexion is pale and duskish and their skin is rough and cold.
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With large dark eyes, olive complexion, and hair in curly dark ringlets, he was a striking young man.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The man is described as aged around 40, 5ft 8ins, with short dark hair, an olive complexion and spoke with broken English.
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Things have a wholly different complexion to this time last year, because at that point the recovery had not taken hold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ada was a particularly striking young lady, with a pale complexion contrasted by very dark hair.
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This coral shade will warm up most complexions and would suit a navy jacket layered on top.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lady was all of a flutter with faded lutestring, washed gauze, and ribbons three times refreshed; but she was most remarkable for the frisure of her head, which rose, like a pyramid, seven inches above the scalp, and her face was primed and patched from the chin up to the eyes; nay, the gallant himself had spared neither red nor white in improving the nature of his own complexion.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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I patronized every complexion-specialist, friseur, perukier, manicurist and fashionable barber in that part of the world.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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He seemed suddenly struck with an awful thought, which caused a momentary pallescence in his rosy complexion; and after a brief hesitation, he turned his galloway, and told his companions he should give them good day.
Maid Marian
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I am exceedingly melancholy of complexion, subject to consumptions and chilliness of my vital spirits, a slavish and sickly life being allotted to me in his city.
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Years of heavy drinking had given Alison a florid complexion.
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He was a tall fellow, slight of build with thinning red hair and a pale complexion to match.
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This was complexioned by a certain sense of 'honor rooted in dishonor,' and by a faint reflection from elder retainership.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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It sinks in skin - good for oily complexions.
The Sun
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Of all these the Complexion of _Cacao_ is composed, since there arise two qualities, which are cold, and dry; and in the substance, that rules them, hath it _restringent_ and _obstructive_, of the nature of the Element of the _Earth_.
Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease ; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry oth
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To describe myself as Black in a situation where most people shared my complexion was absurd.
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Kara stared aghast as the brawny Maggie Finch, with a florid complexion like red brick and forearms like a butcher's, rolled up her sleeves and went to meet the threat of the two men in black Greek fisherman's garb.
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If your complexion is a bit sallow or rosy, pick a wheat shade of blond.
Louis Licari: Old Fashion vs. On Trend
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Although they both had the same black-silk hair, sea-green eyes, and fair complexion, that was where the similarities came to a cliff-drop end.
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And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.
Think Progress » Buchanan: Americans Should Consider Allowing Only White Immigrants
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Engineer fox-trotted twice round the deck and into the galley, where they upset a ship's tin of gravy; and the story that the Trimmer, his complexion liberally enriched with oil and coaldust, embraced the
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919
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Aubanus and Sabellicus commend Portugal beef to be the most savoury, best and easiest of digestion; we commend ours: but all is rejected, and unfit for such as lead a resty life, any ways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion: Tales (Galen thinks) de facile melancholicis aegritudinibus capiuntur.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It blanches the complexion to think that this sort of thing could be going on in ‘civilized’ society in modern times.
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Squinting through the dusk, he saw the peasants were a sturdy, fair-complexioned folk, bearded and long-haired, clad in rough wadmal coats and cross-gaitered pants.
Three Hearts and Three Lions
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It brightens your complexion and gives skin a youthful glow.
The Sun
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Those who live on thin, ill-watered, and bare soils, and not well attempered in the changes of the seasons, in such a country they are likely to be in their persons rather hard and well braced, rather of a blond than a dark complexion, and in disposition and passions haughty and self-willed.
On Airs, Waters, And Places
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She was dressed in a black velvet gown, precisely like that of the queen in the well-known portrait which belongs to the king; on her head was the pointed velvet coif, which is characteristic of her; and she had the wan complexion, and the features we all know well.
Catherine De Medici
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said the man in the corner - shabby, pot-bellied, with a pink complexion and hands perpetually grimed from reading too much newsprint.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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Peter looked at his long-time friend, who had gone as pale as his complexion allowed.
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As to the complexion restorer, it does not appear that she ever tried it.
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When mixed together, they provide a good all-round complexion tonic.
The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
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Lasting one hour and 45 minutes, it is designed to leave the complexion glowing and the client relaxed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lady was all of a flutter with faded lutestring, washed gauze, and ribbons three times refreshed; but she was most remarkable for the frisure of her head, which rose, like a pyramid, seven inches above the scalp, and her face was primed and patched from the chin up to the eyes; nay, the gallant himself had spared neither red nor white in improving the nature of his own complexion.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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A flawless complexion is the best backdrop for all this colour, so use a good foundation rather than tinted moisturiser.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her figure was thin from undernourishment and her complexion a morose sickly gray.
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The gown's skirt and long, bell-shaped sleeves were a waterfall of bri lliant aqua over deep emerald, all over deep blue, and trimmed in silver to complement Acorna's complexion.
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With these expert tips, you can lighten up your look by moving from winter's thick moisturizers and heavy foundations to dewy complexions and no-hassle hair and makeup.
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She glanced down upon a freckled face of the complexion described as pasty, a pair of greyish-blue eyes, and
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir
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In the space of five minutes, Achill landed a trio of goals and the complexion of the game was never the same.
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Here among all the blonde hair and fair skin of the Dramarians, my dark brown curls and olive complexion seemed exotic and exciting.
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He is both a pure scorer and a persistent defender with the ability to alter the complexion of any game.
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a hill near me and striking its roots deep in the shale, is a giant specimen of native tree that bears an apple that has about the clearest, waxiest, most transparent complexion I ever saw.
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