What is "complection"

Usage examples of "complection".

Several weeks having passed without molestation, La Motte dismissed all apprehension of pursuit, and at length became tolerably reconciled to the complection of his circumstances.

She employed numberless stratagems to gain me to her purpose, and they all wore the complection of her character.

Each individual of the party appeared silent and abstracted, but very different was the aspect of their features, and still more the complection of their thoughts.

Zamora lies to the east, and Zingara to the southwest of these kingdoms – peoples alike in darkness of complection and exotic habits, but otherwise unrelated.

The Bossonians are of medium height and complection, their eyes brown or grey, and they are mesocephalic.

He had been born in a town very distant from the sea, and he had set foot on a ship only at an advanced age, when—he said—his body was nothing but a withering of the cutis, a dim­ming of the sight, a besnotting of the nose, a whispering of the ears, a yellowing of the teeth, a stiffening of the spine, a wattling of the throat, a gouting of the heels, a spotting of the complection, a whitening of the locks, a creaking of the tibias, a trembling of the fingers, a stumbling of the feet, and his breast was all one purging of catarrhs amid the coughing of phlegm and the spitting of sputum.

It is an affair of different complection when he is importuned to give time and attention to the innumerable unknown who "collect" autographs as they would collect postage stamps, with no interest in the matter beyond the desire to accumulate as many as possible.

His fair complection, always ruddy, was redder than ever, and his wiry golden hair looked as if he hadn't combed it.

He has a comely Face, a sanguine Complection, his whole Person Gentleman-like, with a becoming Gravity in his Mien, Things, I think, not to be disregarded, but due to the Merit of a virtuous Woman.