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ment ; (2) an outburst of activity ; (3) deranged 

 organic functions ; (4) a characteristic expression 

 and attitude of body ; and (5) in the completed act 

 of revenge, a burst of exultation." 



Sir Charles Bell * gives the following description : 

 " In rage the features are unsteady. The eyeballs 

 are seen largely ; they roll and are inflamed. The 

 front is alternately knit and raised in furrows by 

 the motion of the eyebrows ; the nostrils are inflated 

 to the utmost; the lips are swelled, and, being 

 drawn by the muscles, open the corners of the 

 mouth. The whole visage is sometimes pale, some- 

 times turgid, dark, and almost livid ; the words 

 are delivered strongly through the fixed teeth ; 

 the hair is fixed on end like one distracted, and 

 every joint should seem to curse and ban." 



Henry Siddonsj illustrates the expression of anger 

 thus : " Thus, as I have been saying, choler adds 

 energy to all the exterior parts of the body, but 

 chiefly arms those most proper to seize, attack, or 

 destroy. Swelled by the blood and humours which 

 are thither carried in abundance, they agitate them- 

 selves with a convulsive violence. The inflamed 

 eyes roll in their orbits, and dart forth fiery 

 glances; the hands and teeth manifest a kind of 

 interior tumult, by the grinding of one and the 

 agitation of the others. It is the same kind of 

 eagerness which the mad bull and furious bear 

 display, to make use of the arms with which nature 



* " Anatomy of Expression," p. 177. 



t "Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action," 

 p. 118. 



