A beautiful person among the Greeks, ...  A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty,or The Conduct of Life (1860)
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char: char:
To take work on a day-by-day basis, a day-laborer; hence charwoman. chare: A day's work. chares: Odd jobs.
Lost Beauties of the English Language
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