Example Sentences

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I wonder if the picture of the brain is there, "approved" by a noted Phrenologist, which was copied from my, the Professor's, folio plate in the work of Gall and Spurzheim.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

I’m no apologist,But I, some years ago,Assisted a Phrenologist.

From More Bab Ballads by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

Dr. Allen, a Phrenologist, gave us a short lecture this morning and examined a few heads, mine among them.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted

The Prairie To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet undertaken.

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman

Well, well!" said the Learned Phrenologist "Enough Benevolence here to do a family of Eight.

From Fables in Slang by Newman, Clyde J.