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Definition
the human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British);or: the appearance conveyed by a person's face
- Speaking in short, matter-of-fact phrases, they worry aloud over the fickle weather and fields of sunflowers still too wet to cut, while above their heads Ross Perot s sneering visage flickers across a silent television screen.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
visage = face
- He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- And Akhilleus in his turn gazed in wonder upon Priam, royal in visage as in speech.Homer -- The Iliad
- This fair hair, this pale visage, this pure brow, seemed surrounded by an ashy halo from which the dark eyes looked out at me.Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
- His visage was clouded by fear.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- "This is terrible!" said I, feeling that my check grew pale, and seeing a like change in the visages about me.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Earth's Holocaust
- His visage was grim, weathered, and hewn of many years' experience.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- For a split second, one took on the icy visage of Boreas.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- His working, fiercely malignant visage as suddenly set somberly.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- Very, very slowly, Nico's frozen visage thawed and we talked for a few minutes more.Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
- "That there Roger Cly, master," said Mr. Cruncher, with a taciturn and iron-bound visage.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- That ravaged visage told plainly the battle-ground that Lydia Sessions's narrow soul had become in these dreadful days.Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
- Paul stared at the dark visage above him, wondering at the reasons which had impelled Stilgar to say just that.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- We have been taught to tremble at the terrific visages of murdering janizaries, and to blush at the unveiled mysteries of a future seraglio.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- Snake Anson let out a hoarse laugh and Moze's black visage opened in a huge grin.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- What if we do omit This reprobate till he were well inclined; And satisfy the deputy with the visage Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
- No one ventured to gainsay the missionary, whose excited tone contrasted curiously with his naturally calm visage.Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- The four blazing pines threw up a loftier flame, and obscurely discovered shapes and visages of horror on the smoke wreaths above the impious assembly.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown
- His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- The humpbacked, toothless visage of old age?Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
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