Shape
It is of an oval form, the long axis of the oval being vertical; it varies in size in different subjects, and is much larger in the male than in the female.
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Famous quotes containing the word shape:
“There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are like thin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)
“But her shape is the least of my madness; she has things by which it is more pleasing to die.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)
“Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)