All 10 Uses of
countenance
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- He would never have spoken with the Eternal amid lightnings on Sinai's mountaintop nor ever have come down with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the tables of the law, graven in the language of the outlaw.†
Chpt 7
- A knight of the rueful countenance here in Dublin.†
Chpt 9
- And lo, as they quaffed their cup of joy, a godlike messenger came swiftly in, radiant as the eye of heaven, a comely youth and behind him there passed an elder of noble gait and countenance, bearing the sacred scrolls of law and with him his lady wife a dame of peerless lineage, fairest of her race.†
Chpt 12
- —How now, fellow? cried the second of the party, a man of pleasant countenance, So servest thou the king's messengers, master Taptun?†
Chpt 12
- —Aha! cried he of the pleasant countenance.†
Chpt 12 *
- Miss puny little Edy's countenance fell to no slight extent and Gerty could see by her looking as black as thunder that she was simply in a towering rage though she hid it, the little kinnatt, because that shaft had struck home for her petty jealousy and they both knew that she was something aloof, apart, in another sphere, that she was not of them and never would be and there was somebody else too that knew it and saw it so they could put that in their pipe and smoke it.†
Chpt 13
- There too, opposite to him, was Lynch whose countenance bore already the stigmata of early depravity and premature wisdom.†
Chpt 14
- Then he screwed his features up someway sideways and glared out into the night with an unprepossessing cast of countenance.†
Chpt 16
- …when, when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths, 11 Leinster street, with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the secret of the race, graven in the language of prediction.†
Chpt 17
- …concerning the recent erections of the Grand Lyric Hall on Burgh Quay and the Theatre Royal in Hawkins street: fourthly, distraction resultant from compassion for Nelly Bouverist's non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical expression of countenance and concupiscence caused by Nelly Bouverist's revelations of white articles of non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical underclothing while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the articles: fifthly, the difficulties of the selection of…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(countenance as in: a pleasant countenance) facial expression; or face; or composure or manner