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"He saw before him a fine and extremely well-made young woman, with dark hair, [and] a wide, sensible, beautiful forehead."
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"Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing."
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"She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
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"Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet, and shining, the color of her cheeks was real...Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood — she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her."
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"You, who know me, can fancy how steadfastly I gazed upon her rich dark eyes...how my very soul gloated over her warm lips and fresh, glowing cheeks, how I became quite lost in the delightful meaning of her words, so much so, that I scarcely heard the actual expressions."
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"He wanted to study, examine, investigate every last inch of skin on her lovely, monumental body."
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"She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey."
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"Her hair was the brightest living gold…her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species."
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"The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close."
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"She had a decided mouth, a comical nose, and sharp, gray eyes, which appeared to see everything, and were by turns fierce, funny, or thoughtful."
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"She was slender, and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding; small features, very fair..."
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"A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her long slender bare legs were delicate as a crane’s...Her bosom was as a bird’s, soft and slight, slight and soft as the breast of some dark-plumaged dove."
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"She was a maiden artless and innocent as the brief life she had led among the flowers."
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Can You Guess Which Descriptions of Female Characters Were Written By Male Authors?
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