...His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features äs beautiful. Beautiful! - Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that...

...desire to be faithful to a figure Mary Shelley describes sparingly — but of whom she does mention "watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, the straight black lips" — they also mimic a possible result of leveling...

...eyes, Victor looks at his breathing creation and decides there may be some bugs yet to be worked out. His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a horrid...

...His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! — Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight...

...lifeless thing that lay at my feet," he finally sees "the dull yellow eye of the creature open. . . . His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black. . . . No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could...