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More "Makeup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... how Curly would blacken anything he touched, even a tree. But you didn't burn him. Such a diabolical thing is not in your makeup." ...
— Glen of the High North • H. A. Cody
... number of books so fine in point of matter and makeup that we shall lament having been born too late to read these in our childhood. The information and the taste acquired by children who have read the best juvenile publications of the past ten years is perfectly ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... try to come Miss Innocence over me," he said easily. "I sized you two up from the first minute, and I've been watching you ever since. The other one could get away with the housekeeper's part O.K., but any one could see through your makeup. What are the bulls ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... been called less kind things than collectors. Thieves, for example, and scavengers. But collectors are what they really are. Collecting fulfills a basic need in their mammalian makeup; the possession of articles gives them a feeling of security. They love to surround their little furry bodies with all sorts of odds and ends, and their little arboreal houses are stuffed with ...
— Collector's Item • Robert F. Young
... "You will sway the others if you move!" But in spite of the risk of my marble makeup I faintly groaned: "Oh dear! must it be ...
— [19th Century Actor] Autobiographies • George Iles
... reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just ...
— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various
... upon the aims of education, the goals towards which all teaching must strive, the fundamental question to be answered is, "What have we to work with?" "What is the makeup with which children start in life?" Given a certain nature, certain definite results are possible; but if the nature is different, the results must of necessity differ. The possibility of education or of teaching along any line depends upon the presence of an original nature which possesses ...
— How to Teach • George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy
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