EXPLANATION
LIPS and CHEEKS have great significance in the external cosmetic appearance of humans. Any author/poet describing faces cannot avoid describing the lips, using the best adjectives available in his kit. Lips such as quivering lips, trembling lips, express emotional states of individuals. The adage 'Face is the index of mind' includes the part played by the lips.
Multiple Choice Questions 591 to 600 deal with the adjectives which describe lips.
1. Names in brackets are those of the authors who used the phrases.
2. Phrases shown in italics have been used in the Quiz questions. Pl. fill the blanks with the italicised phrases.
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4. Your answers need not agree with the key. Choosing the right words is, always, a question of individual preference.
LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES WHICH DESCRIBE 'LIPS'
Bashful lips (W.M. Thackeray), bearded lips, beloved lips (H. Rider Haggard), bewitching lips, Bitten lips and bated breath (Herman Melville), black lips (Wordsworth and Coleridge), blackened lips, bloodhound lips (George Bernard Shaw in his Caesar and Cleopatra), brazen lips (Francis Thompson), bright lips, broad lips, buckled lips (Emily Dickinson)
Carmined lips (Fannie Hurst), chapped lips, cherry lips, cleft lips, cold lips, coral lips (W.S. Gilbert), coward lips (Shakespeare), cracked lips, credulous lips (Arthur Weir)
Dainty lips, delicate lips, DRY LIPS half opened and panting (Charlotte M Young), DYING lips (Elizabeth Robins).
Eager lips
Fair lips, fevered lips, frozen lips
Garrulous lips (Walt Whitman), ghostly lips, gulping lips
Half-shut lips (Sir Walter Scot), healing lips (William Congreve)
Joined lips
Lily lips (Shakespeare), living lips, Locked lips, lovely lips
Maddening lips of wine (Margeret Sprague Carhart), Moist lips, mortal lips (Emily Dickinson), moving lips
Nether lip
Parted lips, passionate lips (Goethe), peaceful lips, perfumed lips, pouting lips (Gilbert and Sullivan), pretty lips, pure lips, undefiled lips
Quivering lips
Rebel lips (Ralph Chaplin), red lips, ripe lips (Shakespeare), rosebud lips (Ella Rodman), rosy lips
Sad lips, sensitive lips, sensual lips, shaggy lips (William Hayley), sighing lips (Thomas Moore), sleeping lips (B.E. Stevenson), smiling lips, soft lips, SOFT UNDER lip, Sore lips, split lips, still lips, sugary lips, sunken lips, sweet lips, swelling lips
Thick lips, thickish lips, thin lips, timid lips (W.M. Thackeray), trembling lips
Undiscoverable lips (William Watson), Unembittered lips (Sara Teasdale)
Voiceless lips (D.A. Mackenzie)
Warm lips, white lips
591. Chapped lips can be treated with beeswax and petrolatum (Vaseline).
592. A child may get cleft lips genetically. The congenital defect arises when the child is born with a separated upper lip.
593. Those flaxen locks, those eyes of blue
Bright as thy mother's in their hue;
Those rosy lips, whose dimples play
And smile to steal the heart away,
Recall a scene of former joy,
And touch thy father's heart, my Boy!
[Lord Byron in his poem 'To my son'].
594.You smile, with faintly perfumed lips,
You loose your thoughts like birds,
Brushing our dreams with soft and shadowy words . .
We know your words are foolish, yet sit here bound
In tremulous webs of sound.
[Conrad Aiken in his poem 'The House of Dust'].
595. Lucius: Stand all aloof;--but, uncle, draw you near,
To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk.--
O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips.
[William Shakespeare in his play 'The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus'].
596. In appearance, the Hopi and Havasupai are more alike than either are like to the Navaho. As a rule, the Hopi is well built and stalwart, with the unmistakable Indian face, but with less coarse and sensual lips, higher and more intellectual brow, more alert and kindly eye, and stronger chin than the Havasupai. [George Wharton James in his book 'The Grand Canyon of Arizona'].
597. "Poems?" she repeated, just a trifle blankly; then, seeing the hurt in his face, about the sensitive and delicate lips, she put out a quick, penitent hand. "Let me see them--at once!" [Katharine Newlin Burt in her book 'Hidden Creek'].
598.Such a turn
Kind fortune never do me. Shall I kiss
To life these frozen lips?--No!--of her plight
'Twere base to take advantage.
[James Sheridan Knowles in his play 'The Love-Chase'].
599.Too well those lovely lips disclose
The triumphs of the opening Rose;
O fair! O graceful! bid them prove
As passive to the breath of Love.
[S.T. Coleridge in his poem 'The Kiss'].
600. Whether his sophistries satisfied him or not, they satisfied her. She clung to his breast, and whispered, with closed eyes and quivering lips: "Yes, yes, yes!" [William Dean Howells in his 'Between The Dark And The Daylight'].
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