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She was very tall [Nabokov, Lolita p.117]
tall, stately, and finely developed in figure [Bronte, Jane Eyre p.62]
a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement of radiance [Bronte, Jane Eyre p.45]
her head was surprisingly small on the end of her strong, corded neck [King, Carrie p.176]
hair falling in curls to her waist (Bronte, Jane Eyre, p.63)
a brilliant platinum blonde, very much the same glistening silvery colour as a female tightrope-walker’s tights in a circus [Dahl, Matilda, p.67]
which waved over her shoulders with all the wild grace of natural curls [Bronte, Jane Eyre p.238]
She had a lovely pale oval madonna face [Dahl, Matilda p.82]
a charming beautiful face [Defoe, Moll Flanders p.153]
an honest face [Defoe, Moll Flanders p.75]
with a complexion! oh! what a bloom of full health [Austen, Emma p.33]
a broad white forehead [Bronte, Agnes Grey p.184]
a low Grecian brow [Bronte, Agnes Grey p.255]
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Paint Her to Your Own Mind 