Countenances

Examples

• One or two countenances fell. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration, that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Never certainly have I seen a plainer confession of guilt upon human countenances. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now, in the South we have our poor, but there is not that terrible expression in their countenances of a sullen sense of injustice which I see here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Some hours passed thus, while they, by their countenances, expressed joy, the cause of which I did not comprehend. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The eagerness both of attention and intention, exhibited in all the countenances, made them a most impressive sight. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Upon this, the _hurgo_ and his train withdrew, with much civility and cheerful countenances. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The surprise depicted on the countenances of his guests imparted new courage to the host. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I willingly believe it, said the knight; I have been accustomed to study men's countenances, and I can read in thine honesty and resolution. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• With woeful countenances they looked at each other. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Countenances soon changed, and so did the inquiry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Not these countenances, I am sure, looking towards the Miss Bertrams; and for a theatre, what signifies a theatre? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

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