All 9 Uses of
visage
in
Jane Eyre
- John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.†
p. 12.3 *
- This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.†
p. 263.4
- Soon I had traced on the paper a broad and prominent forehead and a square lower outline of visage: that contour gave me pleasure; my fingers proceeded actively to fill it with features.†
p. 269.1
- At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.†
p. 327.1
- I was aware her lurid visage flamed over mine, and I lost consciousness: for the second time in my life — only the second time — I became insensible from terror.†
p. 327.6
- The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors.†
p. 338.6
- When I think of the thing which flew at my throat this morning, hanging its black and scarlet visage over the nest of my dove, my blood curdles.†
p. 357.5
- Diana and Mary relieved me by turning their eyes elsewhere than to my crimsoned visage; but the colder and sterner brother continued to gaze, till the trouble he had excited forced out tears as well as colour.†
p. 398.0
- I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage.†
p. 503.7
Definition:
someone's face or facial expression