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  • I found myself flat on my back, spots dancing in my eyes, the cadaverous visage of the plague spirit looming over me.†   (source)
  • Very, very slowly, Nico's frozen visage thawed and we talked for a few minutes more.†   (source)
  • Attempts at conversation would turn into one-way monologues, with sounds bouncing off her stone visage.†   (source)
  • I am (was) a journalist, I know the drill, and so when I said those words—the Ellen Abbott effect—I recognized Sharon's mouth twitch, the delicately raised eyebrows, the lightening of her whole visage.†   (source)
  • Paul stared at the dark visage above him, wondering at the reasons which had impelled Stilgar to say just that.†   (source)
  • It comes to me vividly now because I saw it again last night as the visage of Phaedrus himself.†   (source)
  • And then mother and daughter walked together to the cantina, and the owner allowed them in, shaking his head but smiling as well, the smile bending his mustache, and making his fierce visage somewhat goofy for a moment, and with that the mother and her daughter were gone.†   (source)
  • I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep.†   (source)
  • That ravaged visage told plainly the battle-ground that Lydia Sessions's narrow soul had become in these dreadful days.†   (source)
  • They were bright and alert, transforming his fat baby face into the visage of an intelligent little human being. like a grown-up person in miniature.†   (source)
  • His walruslike visage rarely changed; I never heard him raise his voice, but it was difficult to read his mood, beyond mild aggravation.†   (source)
  • The man sat forward with elbows on knees, hands clenched together, his entire visage appearing as if it might melt and drip onto the floor.†   (source)
  • Directly opposite the goblins in the great hall, sitting low in the gallery, was a bulky, dark-visaged personage that could only have been a troll.†   (source)
  • The humpbacked, toothless visage of old age?†   (source)
  • Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.†   (source)
  • The visage is both alluring and unnerving, but he indulges it, thinking of what Gilliam might be looking like these days (back at Lorton after a good long drink of freedom) and how difficult it will be to find solid work when he gets out, whenever that will be.†   (source)
  • His mouth is large and irregular, his teeth black and foul and craggy…… His eyes are a little squinted, his visage is long and lank, his complexion wan, his cheeks are fallen, his chin is long, large, and lean…… When he prays at home, he raises one knee upon the chair, and throws one hand over the back of it.†   (source)
  • This would-be king was a tall spare lord with a melancholy visage, his lantern jaw shaved clean.†   (source)
  • In the moonlight, they were milky and translucent, a swirl of features that bubbled like melted wax, ever seeking to assume a beautiful visage.†   (source)
  • Mark was emotional and sentimental beneath his scowling, brooding visage.†   (source)
  • My job, which I executed faithfully, was never to spy out those moments of his self-regard, it was not to peer through the crack of the door and watch as he bore off each successive visage.†   (source)
  • The striking visage of Bindo Altoviti was of a type that had lasted and could be seen on the boys who worked in the cafes on the Via del Corso or drove tourists through the back streets, in carriages that hardly fit between the walls.†   (source)
  • Bruenor curiously considered the engaging stare and calm visage as he closed in on the youth.†   (source)
  • "There was a time," I said, addressing this ancient visage, "when I was considered gone for good and abandoned forever.†   (source)
  • He took pride in his work, as other men do, and pride, too--though he did not flaunt it publicly--in his judgments, his feelings, even his comfortable shape, size, and visage.†   (source)
  • In the sea bottom the wind stirred along faint vapors, and from the mountains great stone visages looked upon the silvery rocket and the small fire.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she would present the worn visage of an indomitable old woman who learned to expect the worst from life, and sometimes the face of defenseless hysteria.†   (source)
  • Fifty iron-visaged, battle-ready dwarves, more than half the clan, stood around their leader.†   (source)
  • There was a frail, long-visaged boy of ten sitting beside his aunt in the back, with a girl of eight tucked between them.†   (source)
  • His craggy, friendly visage filled the monitor frame.†   (source)
  • Silas glanced down, his visage contorted in anguish.†   (source)
  • Peter Solomon's visage now contorted into a mask of absolute grief and regret.†   (source)
  • The golden visage of a lion appeared above me, his amber eyes beautiful and deadly.†   (source)
  • Oh, dear reader, it was hard to yell such words at my own handsome visage, but I did.†   (source)
  • His face clouded now with a visage of total incredulity.†   (source)
  • In spite of that, Eragon detected a hint of satisfaction in the elf's visage.†   (source)
  • For a split second, one took on the icy visage of Boreas.†   (source)
  • Max felt an unexpected surge of affection for the stern visage.†   (source)
  • And yet Max knew that Astaroth's shimmering visage was but a mask.†   (source)
  • A lopsided smile crept across Roran's face, rendering his visage even more shocking.†   (source)
  • I won't attempt to find comfort in the visage of a creator or the forgiving dead.†   (source)
  • "My apologies," said Nasuada, her visage reappearing in the basin.†   (source)
  • "Explain," Kessell demanded, a shadow of worry clouding his cocky visage.†   (source)
  • Cassius wore a grim visage as he turned to face the halfling.†   (source)
  • I had contracted dragon pox shortly before arriving at school, and while I was no longer contagious, my pock-marked visage and greenish hue did not encourage many to approach me.†   (source)
  • His once-dark hair was turning silver, and his famous visage reflected a lifetime of power and a vigorous intellect.†   (source)
  • In New Zealand, Hillary is one of the most honored figures in the nation; his craggy visage even stares out from the face of the five-dollar bill.†   (source)
  • His visage was clouded by fear.†   (source)
  • In the dim light it was difficult to see where her face began, as her hair and robe framed and merged into her visage.†   (source)
  • Paul opened his eyes to see Stilgar's black-bearded visage above him, the dark eyes glaring with battle light.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, his battered visage shone with happiness as he let go of Hermione and said again, "I knew you'd come!†   (source)
  • Jesus' visage darkened noticeably.†   (source)
  • Then I saw a wan face Not pinned by human sorrows, but bright blanched By an immortal sickness which kills not; It works a constant change, which happy death Can put no end to; deathwards progressing To no death was that visage; it had passed The lily and the sno w; and beyond these I must not think now, though Isaw that face…†   (source)
  • Then, like the slowly gathering swell of an ocean wave, the woman's visage transformed from one of uncertainty… to disbelief… to hope… and finally, to cresting joy.†   (source)
  • A refuge containing ten stones from Mount Sinai, one from heaven itself, and one with the visage of Luke's dark father.†   (source)
  • Then the air blooped out of its neck hole and the gorgeous regal visage of yours truly sank beneath the waves.†   (source)
  • It contains ten stones from Mount Sinai, one from heaven itself, and one with the visage of Luke's dark father.†   (source)
  • In its place, the tattooed face reappeared, its chilling visage staring down through the small window.†   (source)
  • "There is a refuge in Rome, north of the Tiber, which contains ten stones from Mount Sinai, one from heaven itself, and one with the visage of Luke's dark father.†   (source)
  • The visage was barely human.†   (source)
  • But it was also the other character of her beauty, its dark and willful visage, and with it, the growing measure of independence she would exercise over her world and over me, that she had hoped to keep hidden a little longer.†   (source)
  • His visage would be more frightening than that, cold and black and too terrible for any man to gaze upon and live.†   (source)
  • Horst was there-his thick beard protruded like a shelf into the light-flanked by the hard visages of Delwin, Gedric, and then Loring.†   (source)
  • Instead, there came a silence, wherein the hot anger that animated King Orrin's visage cooled and sharpened and acquired a brittle temper.†   (source)
  • The witch paused in the doorway; her fearsome visage might have been plucked from the carver masks that lined the hall outside.†   (source)
  • The goddess thrust her spear at the giant, then brandished her shield with the fearsome bronzed visage of Medusa.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka had lost his head during Milo's bombardment; instead of running for cover, he had remained out in the open and performed his duty, slithering along the ground through shrapnel, strafing and incendiary bombs like a furtive, wily lizard from casualty to casualty, administering tourniquets, morphine, splints and sulfanilamide with a dark and doleful visage, never saying one word more than he had to and reading in each man's bluing wound a dreadful portent of his own decay.†   (source)
  • Astaroth's face looked considerably more youthful than the visage Max had seen appraising him from the Rembrandt painting.†   (source)
  • The faces that the First Men and the children of the forest had carved into the weirwoods in eons past had stern or savage visages more oft than not, but the great oak looked especially angry, as if it were about to tear its roots from the earth and come roaring after them.†   (source)
  • Grimacing, Eragon first bathed in steaming hot water, then held up the mirror and confronted his visage.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry," said Max, squinting to better see the visage, which seemed to shift and ripple within the trunk, as though the oak were molten.†   (source)
  • The vyes hissed and laughed and crept forward, some wholly wolfish in appearance, others displaying decidedly human noses and lips and ears in a hideous, slavering visage.†   (source)
  • Smiling for the first time, and thereby presenting a visage both handsome and terrifying, Blodhgarm said, "It will be an honor to serve alongside a woman as intelligent, capable, and witty as yourself, Lady Nasuada.†   (source)
  • For although it was true the talk throughout the camp was still of the glorious brightness of our ultimate victory and its forever dawning reach, the surer truth as yet unspoken was that we were now squarely facing the dark visage of our demise.†   (source)
  • Upon closer inspection, Max saw that Straavh's two heads were not identical; the right was broader and almost boarlike in its visage, while the left was decidedly more wolfish.†   (source)
  • From the corner of his eye, Max spied a particularly thick vye, almost boar-like in its visage, sneak close to Bob to venture a nip at the wounded ogre.†   (source)
  • Eragon tried to guess what the elf was thinking, but could glean no information from his masklike visage.†   (source)
  • But in truth it was solely the doctor and surgeon, Captain Ono, who ever had any purpose and intention for her, who even knew, besides myself, where K was, and it was his narrowed, severe visage that I could not yet conceive of repelling.†   (source)
  • Cambrylla's leering visage was enough to grant entrance to the most prestigious districts, but there was a problem when they finally reached the palace.†   (source)
  • For a moment, Roran felt sympathy for him, then a series of contortions distorted Sloan's visage, each more extreme than the last, until his skin turned beet red.†   (source)
  • Lavender Eyes Bruenor had regained his dour visage by the time he called on Wulfgar the following morning.†   (source)
  • Then its center mushroomed out and opened into a clear image of a man's face, a gaunt, hollowed visage painted in the tradition of some of the southern cities.†   (source)
  • In truth, the cries affected him as deeply as anyone, but, unwilling to let the lunatic Kessell view any hints of weakness from him, he transformed his visage from sorrow to an iron grimace of rage.†   (source)
  • The standard bearer walked across the room toward the host king, his eyes never blinking or turning away from Beorg's imposing visage, though Beorg could see that the youth marked the expressions that were upon him.†   (source)
  • On a weekend I purchased a huge poster of Beethoven, and hung his shaggy-maned visage on the bulletin board.†   (source)
  • Or, holding in fief the storm and the dark and all the black powers of wizardry, to gaze, ghoul-visaged, through a storm-lashed windowpane, briefly planting unutterable horror in grouped and sheltered life; or, no more than a man, but holding, in your more than mortal heart, demoniac ecstasy, to crouch against a lonely storm-swept house, to gaze obliquely through the streaming glass upon a woman, or your enemy, and while still exulting in your victorious dark all-seeing isolation, to…†   (source)
  • "Fire feels good," said the burly Moze, who appeared as broad as he was black-visaged.†   (source)
  • Venters recalled the smoky haze of the saloon, the dark-visaged men, the huge Oldring.†   (source)
  • The right of the grim-visaged pirate upon the high seas is exactly the same.†   (source)
  • "What but the human heart itself?" said the dark-visaged stranger, with a portentous grin.†   (source)
  • With the sight of smoke-hazed room and drinking, cursing, gambling, dark-visaged men, reality once more dawned upon Venters.†   (source)
  • The black-visaged Moze rolled his eyes like a mad bull and Jim Wilson studiously examined a stick he held in his hands.†   (source)
  • Had Venters met these dark-clothed, dark-visaged, heavily armed men anywhere in Utah, let alone in this robbers' retreat, he would have recognized them as rustlers.†   (source)
  • Anson, thinner and scalier and more snakelike than ever, was dealing a greasy, dirty deck of cards, his opponent being the square-shaped, black-visaged Moze.†   (source)
  • Everywhere, these black-robed, soft-sandaled, tallow-visaged specters appeared, flitted about and disappeared, noiseless as the creatures of a troubled dream, and as uncanny.†   (source)
  • Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black-visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep.†   (source)
  • On coming within the shadow of the Pyncheon Elm, he stopt, and (taking off his hat, meanwhile, to wipe the perspiration from his brow) seemed to scrutinize, with especial interest, the dilapidated and rusty-visaged House of the Seven Gables.†   (source)
  • If that dark-visaged eldest boy could look more malicious than he had already looked, this was the time when he did it.†   (source)
  • The servant who opened the door answered Newman's inquiry with a slightly embarrassed and hesitating murmur, and at the same moment Mrs. Bread appeared in the background, dim-visaged as usual, and wearing a large black bonnet and shawl.†   (source)
  • On one stood Homer, a most striking likeness, Richard affirmed, "as any one might see, for it was blind," Another bore the image of a smooth-visaged gentleman with a pointed beard, whom he called Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • "Then tell her," rejoined he, "that I spake again with the black-a-visaged, hump shouldered old doctor, and he engages to bring his friend, the gentleman she wots of, aboard with him.†   (source)
  • The fourth was a meeklooking, long-visaged man, without any other protection from the cold than that which was furnished by a black surcoat, made with some little formality, but which was rather threadbare and rusty.†   (source)
  • Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment.†   (source)
  • So might an industrious fox or bear make up his account of chickens or stray travellers with an eye to his cubs, not to disparage by that word the three raw-visaged, lank, and buttoned-up maidens who dwell with the parent Vholes in an earthy cottage situated in a damp garden at Kennington.†   (source)
  • "It were well," muttered the most iron-visaged of the old dames, "if we stripped Madame Hester's rich gown off her dainty shoulders; and as for the red letter which she hath stitched so curiously, I'll bestow a rag of mine own rheumatic flannel to make a fitter one!"†   (source)
  • The king beheld him fast, and saw he was passingly well-visaged and passingly well made of his years.†   (source)
  • Right so came into the hall two men well beseen and richly, and upon their shoulders there leaned the goodliest young man and the fairest that ever they all saw, and he was large and long, and broad in the shoulders, and well visaged, and the fairest and the largest handed that ever man saw, but he fared as though he might not go nor bear himself but if he leaned upon their shoulders.†   (source)
  • Then, waking with a start, they would run their fingers over the wounds with a sort of absentminded curiosity, twisting their lips, and in a flash their grief blazed up again, and abruptly there rose before them the mournful visage of their love.†   (source)
  • Mr. Patton's granite visage seemed to lean toward me like a monument about to fall, and the satchel under Mrs. Patton's chin quivered like a tow sack full of kittens, and the sound of the Young Executive's adenoids was plainly audible, and the Judge just sat, with his yellow eyes working over the crowd, and my mother's hands turned in her lap.†   (source)
  • He guessed that like himself, Mr. Sternowitz felt the necessity of continually humbling himself before the relentless, unwinking scrutiny of those eyes, the grey unrelaxing visage.†   (source)
  • Siva's facial expression is neither sorrowful nor joyous, but is the visage of the Unmoved Mover, beyond, yet present within, the world's bliss and pain.†   (source)
  • But they whispered about his goodness and remarkable visage: about such-and-such a blow which he had once given to so-and-so: about the grace of his leg-glides.†   (source)
  • Rieux could feel under his hand the gnarled, weatherworn visage of the rocks, and a strange happiness possessed him.†   (source)
  • He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage.†   (source)
  • His working, fiercely malignant visage as suddenly set somberly.†   (source)
  • His visage was a dark blur, but the posture of him was that of a wolf about to spring.†   (source)
  • Snake Anson let out a hoarse laugh and Moze's black visage opened in a huge grin.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I have," she answered slowly, and I could have laughed aloud at his crestfallen visage.†   (source)
  • Moze seconded that move by an expressive flash of his black visage.†   (source)
  • "Peace, my friends," says Chadband, rising and wiping the oily exudations from his reverend visage.†   (source)
  • I travelled only at night, fearful of encountering the visage of a human being.†   (source)
  • "That there Roger Cly, master," said Mr. Cruncher, with a taciturn and iron-bound visage.†   (source)
  • He was small in stature, with a furrowed visage, which as yet could hardly be termed aged.†   (source)
  • It was the formidable visage of Quasimodo.†   (source)
  • He was calm; but the agitation of the night was legible in his pale and careworn visage.†   (source)
  • "No," said d'Artagnan, "and yet I am certain it is not the first time I have seen that visage."†   (source)
  • Even on his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with certainty.†   (source)
  • As Janet curtsied, hoping I was well, I observed my aunt's visage lengthen very much.†   (source)
  • As far away as he could see that mule and that priest, the poor victim's visage grew gentler.†   (source)
  • I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!†   (source)
  • Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.†   (source)
  • The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors.†   (source)
  • It is the only change which ever takes place in a courtier's visage.†   (source)
  • And I should have had that face of night upon my visage every day! every day!†   (source)
  • I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage.†   (source)
  • Such were the terrors of the black veil, even when Death had bared his visage!†   (source)
  • I grew as lank as a weasel that fall, and my face was as pale as one of your fever-and-ague visages.†   (source)
  • Dom Claude's visage had resumed its severe expression.†   (source)
  • The trooper looks at her with a troubled visage.†   (source)
  • But still good Mr. Hooper sadly smiled at the pale visages of the worldly throng as he passed by.†   (source)
  • The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • At the first glance one read arrogance on his visage; at the second, craft.†   (source)
  • The reflection of that sweet face lighted up his pale visage.†   (source)
  • With Martin as his lieutenant he marshaled his troop of ratcatchers—ruffians all of them, with high boots, tied jacket sleeves, and ebon visages of piracy.†   (source)
  • She remembered the ghoulish visages of those starved rebels, and marveled at her blessed fortune in escaping them.†   (source)
  • CYRANO: Take notice, boobies all, Who find my visage's center ornament A thing to jest at—that it is my wont— An if the jester's noble—ere we part To let him taste my steel, and not my boot!†   (source)
  • Then, in a flash, I perceived that all had the same form of costume, the same soft hairless visage, and the same girlish rotundity of limb.†   (source)
  • As one of a boarding-party from the Agamemnon he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER IX MR. THOMAS MARVEL You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity.†   (source)
  • So these two upper and nether visages confronted each other all day long, the white face looking down on the brown face, and the brown face looking up at the white face, without anything standing between them but the two girls crawling over the surface of the former like flies.†   (source)
  • This fair hair, this pale visage, this pure brow, seemed surrounded by an ashy halo from which the dark eyes looked out at me.†   (source)
  • The new arrival also condoled with himself, so that Mrs. White said, "Tut, tut!" and coughed gently as her husband entered the room, followed by a tall, burly man, beady of eye and rubicund of visage.†   (source)
  • Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow.†   (source)
  • But he waives his majesty with infinite grace; walks with a feather-like step; and makes every wrinkle in his war worn visage brim over with holiday joyousness.†   (source)
  • But his eyes were keen and used to the dark, and by peering closely he recognized the huge bulk and black-bearded visage of Oldring and the lithe, supple form of the rustler's lieutenant, a masked rider.†   (source)
  • This man was scarcely many years older than Glenn, yet he had grizzled hair, a seamed and scarred visage, coarse, thick lips, and beetling brows, from under which peered gleaming light eyes.†   (source)
  • Chapter XXXV THE PASSING OF EFFORT—THE VISAGE OF CARE The next morning he looked over the papers and waded through a long list of advertisements, making a few notes.†   (source)
  • While choosing and arranging an outfit they were visited by a brawny little man with a most remarkable visage.†   (source)
  • Madeline appreciated how monstrous Dorothy found this burned and distorted visage, how deformed the little man looked to a woman of refined sensibilities.†   (source)
  • Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David.†   (source)
  • He guided Martin to the home of the druggist, he kicked the door, then, standing with his lean and bristly visage upraised in the cold early light, he bawled, "Ed!†   (source)
  • The landlord is a short and corpulent little man with a nose of cylindrical proportions, wiry hair, and a sporadic rosiness of visage.†   (source)
  • But this was an evanescence, and quickly repented of, as it were, by an immitigable look, pinching and shrivelling the visage into the momentary semblance of a wrinkled walnut.†   (source)
  • "And is that all you did about it, Foretopman?" gruffly demanded another, an irascible old fellow of brick—colored visage and hair, and who was known to his associate forecastlemen as Red Pepper; "Such sneaks I should like to marry to the gunner's daughter!" by that expression meaning that he would like to subject them to disciplinary castigation over a gun.†   (source)
  • But the incident confirmed to him certain tell—tale reports purveyed to his ear by Squeak, one of his more cunning Corporals, a grizzled little man, so nicknamed by the sailors on account of his squeaky voice, and sharp visage ferreting about the dark corners of the lower decks after interlopers, satirically suggesting to them the idea of a rat in a cellar.†   (source)
  • —Now, Master—at-arms, tell this man to his face what you told of him to me;" and stood prepared to scrutinize the mutually confronting visages.†   (source)
  • The rancher stared speechlessly at her, then at Anson, then at Wilson, and last at Riggs, when his brown visage shaded dark with rush of purple blood.†   (source)
  • This complexion, singularly contrasting with the red or deeply bronzed visages of the sailors, and in part the result of his official seclusion from the sunlight, tho' it was not exactly displeasing, nevertheless seemed to hint of something defective or abnormal in the constitution and blood.†   (source)
  • The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat.†   (source)
  • A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities.†   (source)
  • 'Seventy times seven times didst thou gapingly contort thy visage — seventy times seven did I take counsel with my soul — Lo, this is human weakness: this also may be absolved!†   (source)
  • Mr. Tristram puckered his plump visage.†   (source)
  • "Ho, ho!" said Sam, "skeery, ar ye?" and his black visage lighted up with a curious, mischievous gleam.†   (source)
  • As Caleb looked on, his visage showed a growing depression, but when Fred handed him the paper he gave something like a snarl, and rapped the paper passionately with the back of his hand.†   (source)
  • The stranger, taking advantage of this fitful illumination of his visage, looked intently and wonderingly at him.†   (source)
  • Then he resumed his crouching attitude, and once more projected his visage beyond the covering of the tent.†   (source)
  • He would sit beside him for hours, looking patiently into his face; and a word would brighten up his care-worn visage, and call into it a passing gleam, even of happiness.†   (source)
  • A fair, jolly wig furnished a neat and rounded outline to his visage, and he, well as the other two, wore marten-skin caps.†   (source)
  • It was, however, easy to be seen, by the occasional gleams that shot across his swarthy visage, that it was only necessary to arouse his passions, in order to give full effect to the terrific device which he had adopted to intimidate his enemies.†   (source)
  • So sensible were the audience of some unwonted attribute in their minister, that they longed for a breath of wind to blow aside the veil, almost believing that a stranger's visage would be discovered, though the form, gesture, and voice were those of Mr. Hooper.†   (source)
  • Be this as it may, I well remember the tremendous visages with which we used to go to church, and the changed air of the place.†   (source)
  • And as to taking up my time"—here his red and black visage kindled with satisfaction—"I've a splendid fellow to superintend my business now—a man whose like I've never been able to lay hands on before.†   (source)
  • The opposite side of the chamber was ornamented with the full-length portrait of a young lady, arrayed in the faded magnificence of silk, satin, and brocade, and with a visage as faded as her dress.†   (source)
  • These two squires were followed by two attendants, whose dark visages, white turbans, and the Oriental form of their garments, showed them to be natives of some distant Eastern country.†   (source)
  • The fellow is young—one; he hath the visage of a Roman—two; he loveth best the garb of a Jew—three; and in the palaestrae fame and fortune come of arms to throw a horse or tilt a chariot, as the necessity may order—four.†   (source)
  • This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast,---could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy?†   (source)
  • "This is terrible!" said I, feeling that my check grew pale, and seeing a like change in the visages about me.†   (source)
  • …of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:—whether suborned boys—a numerous band of mercenaries—might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;—it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.†   (source)
  • The angels from his visage splendid Draw power, whose measure none can say; The lofty works, uncomprehended, Are bright as on the earliest day.†   (source)
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