While discussing noses, he says that those with thick bulbous ends belong to persons who are insensitive, swinish; sharp-tipped belong to the irascible, those easily provoked, like dogs; rounded, large, obtuse noses to the magnanimous, the lion-like; slender hooked noses to the eagle-like, the noble but grasping; round-tipped retrousse noses to the luxurious, like barndoor fowl; noses with a very slight notch at the root belong to the impudent, the crow-like; while snub noses belong to persons of luxurious habits, whom he compares to deer; open nostrils are signs of passion, &c.   anvd [Please select]

They tried to groan and beg for mercy, but forthwith emitted the most awful grunting and squealing that ever came out of swinish throats.   anvd [Please select]

You must not imagine, however, that the swinish quality had entirely gone out of them.   anvd [Please select]

Ponder your proud destinies: Born were ye not like brutes for swinish ease, But virtue and high knowledge to pursue.   anvd [Please select]

None of your swinish thrift for me, but life on a big scale--company, and feasting, and refined surroundings.   anvd [Please select]

They decided that I was no doubt a spy, and certainly and manifestly one of the swinish English, they said.   anvd [Please select]

First there's the Grimshaw o' greed--swinish, heartless greed--the other is the Grimshaw o' vanity--the strutter, with sword at belt, who would have men bow or flee before him.   anvd [Please select]

But, such was the virtue of the snow-white flower, instead of wallowing down from his throne in swinish shape or taking any other brutal form, Ulysses looked even more manly and kinglike than before.   anvd [Please select]