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Show 250 r>NEEHING AND DEJHANUE. CJTAl'. X. causing offence. The other signs of rage are not necessarily present. This expression may occasionally bo observed in a person who sneers at or denes anothel', though there may be no real anger ; as when any ono is playfully accuseJ. of some fault, and answers, ''I " ACOrn the imputation." rrhe expression is not a co1nmon one, but I have seen it exhibited with perfect distinctness by a lady who was being quizzed by another person. It was described by Parsons as long ago as 17 46, with an engraving, showing the uncovered canine on one side.14 Mr. Rejlander, without my having made any allusion to the subject, asked me whether I had ever noticed this expression, as he had been 111 uch struck by it. He has photographed for me (Plate IV. fig. 1) a lady, who sometimes unintentionally displays tho canine on one side, and who can do so voluntarily with unusual distinctness. 1'he expression of a half-playful sneer graduates into one of great ferocity when, together with a heavily frowning brow and fierce eye, the canine tooth is exposed. A Bengalee boy was accusec~ before Mr. Scott of somo 1nisdeed. The delinquent did not dare to give vent to his wrath in words, but it was plainly shown on his countenance, sometin1es by a defiant frown, and sometimes "by a thoroughly canine snarl." ~Then this was exhibited, "the corner of the lip over the eye-tooth, " which happened in this case to be large and pro,, jecting, was raised on the side of his accuser, a strong " frown being still retained on the brow." Sir C. Bell states 15 that the actor Cooke could express the most deter1nined hate "when with the oblique cast of his a Transact. Philosoph. Soc., Appendix, 1746, p. 65. u 'Anatomy of Expression,' p. 136. Sir C. Bell calls (p. 131) tho mn-;cle~; which uncover the canines the snarling musrlos. .F!, ..rr: I |
