nostrils; gnashes with the teeth, like a fierce wild
beast. The heart is too much hardened to suffer tears to flow; yet the
eye-balls will be red and inflamed, like those of an animal in a rabid
state. The head is hung down upon the breast. The arms are bended at the
elbows, the fists are clenched hard; the veins and muscles swelled; the
skin livid; and the whole body strained and violently agitated; groans,
expressive of inward torture, more frequently uttered than words. If any
words, they are few, and expressed with a sullen, eager bitterness; the
tone of voice often loud and furious. As it often drives people to
distraction, and self-murder, it can hardly be over-acted by one who
would represent it.

_Fear_, violent and sudden, opens very wide the eyes and mouth; shortens
the nose; draws down the eyebrows; gives the countenance an air of
wildness; covers it with a deadly paleness; draws back the elbows
parallel with the sides; lifts up the open hands, the fingers together,
to the height of the breast, so that the palms face the dreadful object,
as shields opposed against it. One foot is drawn back behind the other,
so that the body seems shrinking from the danger, and putting itself in
a posture for flight. The heart beats violently; the breath is fetched
quick and short; the whole body is thrown into a general tremor. The
voice is weak and trembling; the sentences are short, and the meaning
confused and incoherent. Imminent danger, real or fancied, produces in
timorous persons, as women and children, violent shrieks, without any
articulate sound of words; and sometimes irrecoverably confounds the
understanding; produces fainting, which is sometimes followed by death.

_Shame_, or a sense of one's appearing to a disadvantage, before one's
fellow-creatures; turns away the face from the beholders, covers it with
blushes, hangs the head, casts down the eyes, draws down the eyebrows,
either strikes the person dumb, or, if he attempts to say any thing in
his own defence, causes his tongue to faulter, and confounds his
utterance, and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces, to
keep himself in countenance; all of which only heighten the confusion of
his appearance.

_Remorse_, or a painful sense of guilt; casts down the countenance, and
clouds it with anxiety; hangs down the head, draws the eyebrows down
upon the eyes; the right hand beats the breast; the teeth gnash with
anguish; the whole body is straine