...a charmed life. They did not have on them even the one vulnerable spot which the Grecian hero had. From the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet, they were all over invulnerable, until, at the close of the fifteenth century, gunpowder was discovered...

...The ancient prophets represented the rebellious and obdurate Jews as covered with putrefying sores from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet. When Jesus was rebuked for associating with publicans and sinners by some who claimed to be more holy,...

...men were ever ENGAGED ! And who are your enemies ? They are the most unscrupulous of men : STEEPED from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet in the BLACKEST INFAMY OF PERDITION, they are of their Father the DEVIL, and the works of their father...

...their hair cut short, after which they should be stripped and thoroughly washed with carbolic soap from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet literally. As soon as cleaned they should step into another and unpolluted room and put on fresh clothes....

...sudden physical cor. ruption, but they were astounded by a novel and awful consciousness of guilt. " From the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet " they felt the stain of sin, and their quick impulse to dress and run from the sight of their offended...

...their hair cut short, after which they should be stripped and thoroughly washed with carbolic soap from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet literally. As soon as cleaned they should step into another and unpolluted room and put on fresh clothes....

...men who are thoroughly educated clinicians, men who are saturated with medical knowledge and instinct from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet, who are steady-headed and brave-souled, and who love nothing so well as truth. The chameleon mentalities...

...neither shoes nor sandals, and as for stockings, they are never even thought of. As for the women, from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet, they are most striking. First of all, their legs are bare from above the knees, for they wear no trousers....

...to follow: Examine or have examined both the wet nurse and the baby, and see that both are examined from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet. Pediculosis; cutaneous diseases or scars; mucous patches in the mouth; contagious diseases of the eye;...

...: " But we are British also." And British they are, more patriotic than many of our people at home, from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet. I would have written " from their hats to the soles of their shoes," but these things are mostly American....