ecce homo

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"What are you making such an ecce homo face for?" she said, in her brusquest tone, which now stood her in good stead in concealing her emotion.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Heyse, Paul

Ung aultre tableau de ecce homo ung escripteau pendu au col et petitz anges en chiefs, tenant en une main ung fouet et verges et en l'autre une canne, le fond rouge.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.

The hero is haunted by the notion that a great misfortune will fall upon his family, whenever a travelling dealer shall offer an ecce homo for sale to any one of its members.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

A common term for an emaciated-looking man is to call him an "ecce homo," and a "grippe Jésus" is thieves' slang for a gendarme.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

This flattered Goethe, who called it the inverse "ecce homo," and felt its allusion to his citizenship, not in Germany, but in the world.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan