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  • His visage was grim, weathered, and hewn of many years' experience.†   (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)
  • Martin Silenus's gaze never left Sad King Billy's dour visage.†   (source)
  • Attempts at conversation would turn into one-way monologues, with sounds bouncing off her stone visage.†   (source)
  • Very, very slowly, Nico's frozen visage thawed and we talked for a few minutes more.†   (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 found myself flat on my back, spots dancing in my eyes, the cadaverous visage of the plague spirit looming over me.†   (source)
  • The humpbacked, toothless visage of old age?†   (source)
  • Paul stared at the dark visage above him, wondering at the reasons which had impelled Stilgar to say just that.†   (source)
  • I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep.†   (source)
  • Only the tipple and man-hoist kept their black visage, steam rising from the deep shafts beneath them.†   (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)
  • They were bright and alert, transforming his fat baby face into the visage of an intelligent little human being.†   (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 walruslike visage rarely changed; I never heard him raise his voice, but it was difficult to read his mood, beyond mild aggravation.†   (source)
  • That ravaged visage told plainly the battle-ground that Lydia Sessions's narrow soul had become in these dreadful days.†   (source)
  • Max felt an unexpected surge of affection for the stern visage.†   (source)
  • His visage would be more frightening than that, cold and black and too terrible for any man to gaze upon and live.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It comes to me vividly now because I saw it again last night as the visage of Phaedrus himself.†   (source)
  • Bruenor curiously considered the engaging stare and calm visage as he closed in on the youth.†   (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)
  • Mark was emotional and sentimental beneath his scowling, brooding visage.†   (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)
  • Again, at the first instant of perceiving that thin visage, and the slight deformity of the figure, she pressed her infant to her bosom with so convulsive a force that the poor babe uttered another cry of pain.   (source)
  • Their immediate posterity, the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed to clear it up.   (source)
    visage = facial expression
  • It seemed to be his wish and purpose to mask this expression with a smile, but the latter played him false, and flickered over his visage so derisively that the spectator could see his blackness all the better for it.   (source)
    visage = face
  • According to the vulgar idea, the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; and so, as might be expected, his visage was getting sooty with the smoke.   (source)
  • There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light that had served them to pore over many ponderous books.   (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)
    visaged = faced
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • Peter Solomon's visage now contorted into a mask of absolute grief and regret.†   (source)
  • Silas glanced down, his visage contorted in anguish.†   (source)
  • Oh, dear reader, it was hard to yell such words at my own handsome visage, but I did.†   (source)
  • His craggy, friendly visage filled the monitor frame.†   (source)
  • The golden visage of a lion appeared above me, his amber eyes beautiful and deadly.†   (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)
  • This would-be king was a tall spare lord with a melancholy visage, his lantern jaw shaved clean.†   (source)
  • For a split second, one took on the icy visage of Boreas.†   (source)
  • And yet Max knew that Astaroth's shimmering visage was but a mask.†   (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)
  • A lopsided smile crept across Roran's face, rendering his visage even more shocking.†   (source)
  • Cassius wore a grim visage as he turned to face the halfling.†   (source)
  • "Explain," Kessell demanded, a shadow of worry clouding his cocky visage.†   (source)
  • His once-dark hair was turning silver, and his famous visage reflected a lifetime of power and a vigorous intellect.†   (source)
  • His visage was clouded by fear.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Nevertheless, his battered visage shone with happiness as he let go of Hermione and said again, "I knew you'd come!†   (source)
  • Paul opened his eyes to see Stilgar's black-bearded visage above him, the dark eyes glaring with battle light.†   (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)
  • Jesus' visage darkened noticeably.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Astaroth's face looked considerably more youthful than the visage Max had seen appraising him from the Rembrandt painting.†   (source)
  • The goddess thrust her spear at the giant, then brandished her shield with the fearsome bronzed visage of Medusa.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Grimacing, Eragon first bathed in steaming hot water, then held up the mirror and confronted his visage.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Lavender Eyes Bruenor had regained his dour visage by the time he called on Wulfgar the following morning.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Venters recalled the smoky haze of the saloon, the dark-visaged men, the huge Oldring.†   (source)
  • "Fire feels good," said the burly Moze, who appeared as broad as he was black-visaged.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • If that dark-visaged eldest boy could look more malicious than he had already looked, this was the time when he did it.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • His working, fiercely malignant visage as suddenly set somberly.†   (source)
  • Moze seconded that move by an expressive flash of his black visage.†   (source)
  • "That there Roger Cly, master," said Mr. Cruncher, with a taciturn and iron-bound 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)
  • "No," said d'Artagnan, "and yet I am certain it is not the first time I have seen that visage."†   (source)
  • He was calm; but the agitation of the night was legible in his pale and careworn visage.†   (source)
  • It was the formidable visage of Quasimodo.†   (source)
  • Even on his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with certainty.†   (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)
  • As Janet curtsied, hoping I was well, I observed my aunt's visage lengthen very much.†   (source)
  • Such were the terrors of the black veil, even when Death had bared his visage!†   (source)
  • Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.†   (source)
  • But still good Mr. Hooper sadly smiled at the pale visages of the worldly throng as he passed by.†   (source)
  • Dom Claude's visage had resumed its severe expression.†   (source)
  • The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage.†   (source)
  • As far away as he could see that mule and that priest, the poor victim's visage grew gentler.†   (source)
  • The trooper looks at her with a troubled 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)
  • The reflection of that sweet face lighted up his pale visage.†   (source)
  • At the first glance one read arrogance on his visage; at the second, craft.†   (source)
  • And I should have had that face of night upon my visage every day!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She remembered the ghoulish visages of those starved rebels, and marveled at her blessed fortune in escaping them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 fair hair, this pale visage, this pure brow, seemed surrounded by an ashy halo from which the dark eyes looked out at me.†   (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)
  • Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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 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)
  • "Ho, ho!" said Sam, "skeery, ar ye?" and his black visage lighted up with a curious, mischievous gleam.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • '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)
  • "This is terrible!" said I, feeling that my check grew pale, and seeing a like change in the visages about me.†   (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)
  • Her visage is not even ugly.†   (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)
  • Then he resumed his crouching attitude, and once more projected his visage beyond the covering of the tent.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • But no man of earls greater
    Saw I ever on earth than one of you yonder,
    The warrior in war-gear: no hall-man, so ween I,
    Is that weapon-beworthy'd, but his visage belie him, 250
    The sight seen once only.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The stranger, taking advantage of this fitful illumination of his visage, looked intently and wonderingly at him.†   (source)
  • Never his lands or his rents, but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration.†   (source)
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