All 18 Uses of
countenance
in
The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Perhaps from some little sense of having countenanced an indefensible proceeding, perhaps because it was late, the customers thinned away from the tent shortly after this episode.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- She possibly might never be fully handsome, unless the carking accidents of her daily existence could be evaded before the mobile parts of her countenance had settled to their final mould.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- He was ruddy and of a fair countenance, bright-eyed, and slight in build.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- The rich rouge-et-noir of his countenance underwent a slight change.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- ...there was room for wonder why she had countenanced deception at all,
Chpt 13 (definition 1) *countenanced = approved
- Turning, he saw a circular disc reticulated with creases, and recognized the smiling countenance of the fat woman who had asked for another song at the Three Mariners.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- In the present statuesque repose of the young girl's countenance Richard Newson's was unmistakably reflected.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- "Oh—only a little while?" murmured Elizabeth-Jane, her countenance slightly falling.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- Their faces radiated tropical warmth; for though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market-faces all the year round were glowing little fires.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- She was an old woman of mottled countenance, attired in a shawl of that nameless tertiary hue which comes, but cannot be made—a hue neither tawny, russet, hazel, nor ash; a sticky black bonnet that seemed to have been worn in the country of the Psalmist where the clouds drop fatness; and an apron that had been white in time so comparatively recent as still to contrast visibly with the rest of her clothes.†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)
- Lucetta's countenance lost its sparkle.
Chpt 30 (definition 2) *countenance = face
- His countenance had somewhat changed from its flush of prosperity; the black hair and whiskers were the same as ever, but a film of ash was over the rest.†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- These bridges had speaking countenances.†
Chpt 32 (definition 2)
- Outside and above the forty cups came a circle of forty smoke-jets from forty clay pipes; outside the pipes the countenances of the forty church-goers, supported at the back by a circle of forty chairs.†
Chpt 33 (definition 2)
- It was at this time that Elizabeth-Jane, having heard where her stepfather was, entered the room with a pale and agonized countenance.†
Chpt 33 (definition 2)
- Beyond a natural reason for her slightly drawn look, she had not slept all the previous night, and this had produced upon her pretty though slightly worn features the aspect of a countenance ageing prematurely from extreme sorrow.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)
- She underwent her twelvemonth, and had worn a martyr's countenance ever since, except at times of meeting the constable who apprehended her, when she winked her eye.†
Chpt 36 (definition 2)
- Their sadness added charm to a countenance whose beauty had ever lain in its meditative soberness.†
Chpt 41 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (countenance as in: giving countenance) to tolerate, approve, or show favor or support
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(2) (countenance as in: a pleasant countenance) facial expression; or face; or composure or manner