All 7 Uses of
visage
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Ben remembered, his broad visage wondering.†
Chpt 11 *
- Hand by the block stood the grim figure of the executioner, his visage being concealed in a tengallon pot with two circular perforated apertures through which his eyes glowered furiously.†
Chpt 12
- An instantaneous change overspread the landlord's visage.†
Chpt 12
- It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, marger†
Chpt 14
- A sinister figure leans on plaited legs against o'beirne's wall, a visage unknown, injected with dark mercury†
Chpt 15
- VIRAG: (A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward.†
Chpt 15
- Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her moti†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(visage) someone's face or facial expression
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, visage can refer to any easily seen aspect of something