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a pleasant countenance
Definition
facial expression; or face; or composure or manner
- Captain Harville was a tall, dark man, with a sensible, benevolent countenance;Chapter 11 (53% in)
countenance = facial expression
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- As she joined him, Captain Harville's countenance re-assumed the serious, thoughtful expression which seemed its natural character.Chapter 23 (16% in)
- With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exceptions even among the married couples), there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.Chapter 8 (10% in)
- He was shy, and disposed to abstraction; but the engaging mildness of her countenance, and gentleness of her manners, soon had their effect; and Anne was well repaid the first trouble of exertion.Chapter 11 (83% in)
- Do you think he had the Elliot countenance?Chapter 12 (27% in)
- I hardly looked at him, I was looking at the horses; but I think he had something of the Elliot countenance, I wonder the arms did not strike me!Chapter 12 (28% in)
- Captain Benwick had been seen flying by their house, with a countenance which showed something to be wrong; and they had set off immediately, informed and directed as they passed, towards the spot.Chapter 12 (61% in)
- Captain Wentworth was on the watch for them, and a chaise and four in waiting, stationed for their convenience in the lowest part of the street; but his evident surprise and vexation at the substitution of one sister for the other, the change in his countenance, the astonishment, the expressions begun and suppressed, with which Charles was listened to, made but a mortifying reception of Anne; or must at least convince her that she was valued only as she could be useful to Louisa.Chapter 12 (89% in)
- This decision checked Mary's eagerness, and stopped her short in the midst of the Elliot countenance.Chapter 14 (55% in)
- He was quite as good-looking as he had appeared at Lyme, his countenance improved by speaking, and his manners were so exactly what they ought to be, so polished, so easy, so particularly agreeable, that she could compare them in excellence to only one person's manners.Chapter 15 (81% in)
- Her countenance, perhaps, might express some watchfulness; but the praise of the fine mind did not appear to excite a thought in her sister.Chapter 16 (9% in)
- You are your mother's self in countenance and disposition; and if I might be allowed to fancy you such as she was, in situation and name, and home, presiding and blessing in the same spot, and only superior to her in being more highly valued!Chapter 17 (81% in)
- She looked at her however, from time to time, anxiously; and when the moment approached which must point him out, though not daring to look again (for her own countenance she knew was unfit to be seen), she was yet perfectly conscious of Lady Russell's eyes being turned exactly in the direction for him—of her being, in short, intently observing him.Chapter 19 (76% in)
- She was persuaded by Lady Russell's countenance that she had seen him.Chapter 20 (80% in)
- Anne replied, and spoke in defence of the performance so well, and yet in allowance for his feelings so pleasantly, that his countenance improved, and he replied again with almost a smile.Chapter 20 (91% in)
- Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time more than all the rest of the world put together.Chapter 21 (10% in)
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