All 12 Uses of
countenance
in
Moby Dick
- Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was a wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance.†
Chpt 7-9
- Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.†
Chpt 7-9
- Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face—at least to my taste—his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable.†
Chpt 10-12
- —and so saying I was unmethodically rushing up stairs again empty-handed, when Mrs. Hussey interposed the mustard-pot and vinegar-cruet, and the entire castor of her countenance.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Face!" said I, "call that his face? very benevolent countenance then; but how hard he breathes, he's heaving himself; get off, Queequeg, you are heavy, it's grinding the face of the poor.†
Chpt 19-21
- I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
Chpt 31-33 *countenance = facial expression
- More and more strangely and fiercely glad and approving, grew the countenance of the old man at every shout; while the mariners began to gaze curiously at each other, as if marvelling how it was that they themselves became so excited at such seemingly purposeless questions.†
Chpt 34-36
- Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense countenance of the mate in the stern of the boat, they knew that the imminent instant had come; they heard, too, an enormous wallowing sound as of fifty elephants stirring in their litter.†
Chpt 46-48
- Then watching the mate's countenance, he added, "The steward, Mr. Starbuck, had the face to offer that calomel and jalap to Queequeg, there, this instant off the whale.†
Chpt 70-72
- Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance.†
Chpt 73-75
- And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale.†
Chpt 79-81
- The head part turned over with a leather hinge, and there lay Queequeg in his coffin with little but his composed countenance in view.†
Chpt 109-111
Definition:
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(countenance as in: a pleasant countenance) facial expression; or face; or composure or manner