"Mandrill" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... idea of possible 'ill-becomingness,'—of an apparel which should, in just as accurate a sense, belong appropriately to the creature invested with it, and yet not be glorious, but inglorious, and not well-becoming, but ill-becoming. The mandrill's blue nose, for instance, already referred to,—can we rightly speak of this as '[Greek: euprepeia]'? Or the stings, and minute, colourless blossoming of the nettle? May we call these a glorious apparel, as we may the glowing of ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin |
