The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.Smile, R. Elton
Science
The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.
Smile, R. Elton
Science fiction, American
an owlish expression of vacuity in the region of the eyes. Although in
outward expression ritualistically Christian, their mouths and stomachs
were infidel in observance on fast-days, strenuously advocating the
future resurrection of the body in the stomach. The females belonging to
the family of the Count Palatine Von Lushmywitzs, possessed the elements
of physical beauty, but there was a subdued expression of the eyes, with
a pervading depression of deportment, exhibiting the guardian effects of
discipline administered in their male sponsors’ philosophic moods; also
in combination, a settled, disgustful despondency, emanating from an
association with their lords after they had become filled to repletion
with philosophic wisdom. It was easy, however, to perceive the
struggling elasticity of purity and goodness in outreaching desire for
kindred association, and hopeful deliverance from an entombed death of
corruption. Pointing out several knights and ladies of more compact
physical attainments, and vivacious movements in the expression of
thought correspondence with features, the tribune stated that their
improved appearance was solely dependent upon an admixture of foreign
blood, opposed to swilling barley mead, and coarse gluttony. Many of
these had sent their infants to Manatitlan colonistic schools, and, by
the after adoption of their children’s example, had raised themselves to
a comparative appreciation of the privileges bestowed for the elevation
of humanity above the coarser instincts of its sub-alliance with the
lower orders of animality.
The next train, in the knightly roachalvacade, embraced in the retinues
of its leaders the representative extremes of humanity in the British
Isles. They had bluff apetital features, with but a slight remnant
predisposition to the philosophical swinishness that enveloped with
fatty folds the direct descendants of their Saxo-German antecedents. In
the place of jowled lethargy, they presented bold taural fronts, with a
canine expression of tenacity about their mouths, that would cause you
to involuntarily shrink from a collision with their heads and teeth.
Indeed, their general aspect was stout and still in manifestation,
indicating strong bodily self-reliance. The women exhibited a robust air
of independence, with the pleasing accompaniment of rosy complexions, in
strong contrast with the pale, inanimative features of their German
cousins, which declared at sight their freedom from servility, with the
exhibition of a coexistent power that could turn or tame the obstinate
fronts of the males, when within the circle of their domestic domain.
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