All 9 Uses of
visage
in
Jane Eyre
- John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.†
Chpt 1 *
- This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.†
Chpt 21
- Soon I had traced on the paper a broad and prominent forehead and a square lower outline of visage: that contour gave me pleasure; my fingers proceeded actively to fill it with features.†
Chpt 21
- At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.†
Chpt 25
- I was aware her lurid visage flamed over mine, and I lost consciousness: for the second time in my life — only the second time — I became insensible from terror.†
Chpt 25
- The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors.†
Chpt 26
- When I think of the thing which flew at my throat this morning, hanging its black and scarlet visage over the nest of my dove, my blood curdles.†
Chpt 27
- Diana and Mary relieved me by turning their eyes elsewhere than to my crimsoned visage; but the colder and sterner brother continued to gaze, till the trouble he had excited forced out tears as well as colour.†
Chpt 29
- I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(visage) someone's face or facial expression
or:
an easily seen aspect of something