Read full poem →tures would be intolerable ; as for instance — Abel Drugger,
whose formality of phiz, and shallowness of scull, might for
a few visits make even melancholy smile; then that cumber-
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Common Phrases
. phizmezey phizphiz stonyphiz littlephiz ugly
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Poetry examples for “phiz”
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Read full poem →He knows not how, but so it is,
Her face is grown a knowing phiz;
And, though her fops are wondrous civil,
Read full poem →He knows not how, but so it is,
Her face is grown a knowing phiz;
And, though her fops are wond’rous civil,
Read full poem →Wi' reekit duds, an' reestit gizz,
Ye did present your smoutie phiz
'Mang better folk,