All 22 Uses of
countenance
in
Bleak House
- And he is upon the whole of a fixed opinion that to give the sanction of his countenance to any complaints respecting it would be to encourage some person in the lower classes to rise up somewhere—like Wat Tyler.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- "Why, just as you may suppose," said Mr. Jarndyce, his countenance suddenly falling.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- By my soul, the countenance of that fellow when he was a boy was the blackest image of perfidy, cowardice, and cruelty ever set up as a scarecrow in a field of scoundrels.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- It is habitually hard upon Sir Leicester, whose countenance it greenly mottles in the manner of sage-cheese and in whose aristocratic system it effects a dismal revolution.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- With that apology I withdrew to a seat between Peepy (who, being well used to it, had already climbed into a corner place) and an old lady of a censorious countenance whose two nieces were in the class and who was very indignant with Peepy's boots.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- "And he never does anything else," said the old lady of the censorious countenance.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- I cannot imagine a countenance and manner more singularly expressive of caution and indecision, and a perpetual impulse to do something he could not resolve to venture on, than Mr. Krook's was that day.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- His countenance had, perhaps for years, become so set in its contentious expression that it did not soften, even now when he was quiet.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- The professor made the same remark, Miss Summerson, in his last illness, when (his mind wandering) he insisted on keeping his little hammer under the pillow and chipping at the countenances of the attendants.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1) *
- Chairs and table, he said, were wearisome objects; they were monotonous ideas, they had no variety of expression, they looked you out of countenance, and you looked them out of countenance.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- Chairs and table, he said, were wearisome objects; they were monotonous ideas, they had no variety of expression, they looked you out of countenance, and you looked them out of countenance.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- She remained perfectly still until the carriage had turned into the drive, and then, without the least discomposure of countenance, slipped off her shoes, left them on the ground, and walked deliberately in the same direction through the wettest of the wet grass.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- Merely a close-shaved gentleman in white trousers and a white hat, with seabronze on the judicial countenance, and a strip of bark peeled by the solar rays from the judicial nose, who calls in at the shellfish shop as he comes along and drinks iced ginger-beer!†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairytales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2) *
- "And where did you see her, Charley?" said I. My little maid's countenance fell as she replied, "By the doctor's shop, miss."†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- Mr. Weevle and Mr. Guppy look at each other, the former as having relinquished the whole affair, the latter with a discomfited countenance as having entertained some lingering expectations yet.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- He refolds it and lays it in his desk with a countenance as unperturbable as death.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- As he puts the question, he becomes aware of a dirty-faced little man standing at the trooper's elbow and looking up, with an oddly twisted figure and countenance, into the trooper's face.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- Caddy was now the mother, and I the godmother, of such a poor little baby—such a tiny old-faced mite, with a countenance that seemed to be scarcely anything but cap-border, and a little lean, long-fingered hand, always clenched under its chin.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)
- Solitude under such circumstances being not to be thought of, Volumnia is attended by her maid, who, impressed from her own bed for that purpose, extremely cold, very sleepy, and generally an injured maid as condemned by circumstances to take office with a cousin, when she had resolved to be maid to nothing less than ten thousand a year, has not a sweet expression of countenance.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 1)
- "Parallel case, exactly!" said Mr. Skimpole with a delighted countenance.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 1)
- We stood aside, watching for any countenance we knew, and presently great bundles of paper began to be carried out—bundles in bags, bundles too large to be got into any bags, immense masses of papers of all shapes and no shapes, which the bearers staggered under, and threw down for the time being, anyhow, on the Hall pavement, while they went back to bring out more.†
Chpt 64-65 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (countenance as in: a pleasant countenance) facial expression; or face; or composure or manner
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(2) (countenance as in: giving countenance) to tolerate, approve, or show favor or support