From the Greatest of All Novels

This Stinking Lizaveta was a very short girl, "a wee bit under five feet," as many pious old ladies in our town touchingly recalled after her death.  Her twenty-year-old face, healthy, broad, and ruddy, was completely idiotic; and the look in her eyes was fixed and unpleasant, though mild.  All her life, both summer and winter, she went barefoot and wore only a hempen shift.  Her nearly black hair, extremely thick and as curly as sheep's wool, formed a sort of huge hat on her head.  Besides, it was always dirty with earth and mud, and had little leaves, splinters, and shavings stuck to it, because she always slept on the ground and in the mud.