Nobility of feature
Read the full text in our reader
pela correcção e nobreza dos traços physionomicos e por certa distincção nos gestos e ademanes.
by the correctness and nobility of her features and by a certain distinction in her gestures and bearing.
The portrait closes on the physical evidence: the very lines of her face and the carriage of her body carry 'nobreza,' nobility, and 'distincção,' distinction — words of rank applied to a woman who owns nothing, not even herself. The whole paragraph has been building this quiet, radical claim.
Read the full commentary — and tap any word for its dictionary entry — in the interlinear reader.
Open A Escrava Isaura 7.98 in the full reader
Always open passages in the reader
You are reading a page of the A Escrava Isaura — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.
The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.
Also on our shelves:
A Escrava Isaura 7.98 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/escravaisaura/7.98/