GREAT MEN'S BODIES
Choate's personal appearance was as remarkable as his oratory. Above six feet in height, with a powerful chest and shoulders, a gaunt frame, huge hands and feet; a rolling, lumbering sort of gait, a bilious, coffee-colored complexion; his face deeply corrugated with profound wrinkles and hollows and seamed with powerful lines; his head deep, rather than wide, and completely covered with luxuriant black curly hair, scarcely tinged with gray at the day of his death; mouth large, and lips thin and tremulous; his eyes large, deep-set, and black, with a weird, far-away expression in quiet; but a terrible burning intensity in excitement a face noticeable in a throng of a thousand, with intellect looking out at every point;—a most haggard, woe-begone, fortune-telling countenance; his person arrayed in slouching, ill-fitting garments, including always several coats of various and indescribable hues, which he doffed or donned in the progress of a cause, according to the amount of perspiration which he was secreting; and a cravat which has been said "to meet in an indescribable tie, which seems like a fortuitous concurrence of original atoms. He possessed a wonderful capacity for labor
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