All 7 Uses of
impassive
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- The moment he had disappeared, Chauvelin slipped into the room, and the next instant stood calm and impassive by her side.†
Chpt 14 *
- He had allowed her to speak on in her own vehement, impassioned way, offering no comment, no word of sympathy: and now, while she paused, trying to swallow down the hot tears that gushed to her eyes, he waited, impassive and still.†
Chpt 16
- "And to probe that love, you demanded that I should forfeit mine honour," he said, whilst gradually his impassiveness seemed to leave him, his rigidity to relax; "that I should accept without murmur or question, as a dumb and submissive slave, every action of my mistress.†
Chpt 16
- She need not complain now that he was cold and impassive; his very voice shook with an intensity of passion, which he was making superhuman efforts to keep in check.†
Chpt 16
- He was again as rigid, as impassive, as before.†
Chpt 16
- Her woman's heart had read his, beneath the impassive mask his pride still forced him to wear.†
Chpt 17
- Close to him Desgas still stood mute and impassive, waiting for further orders, whilst two soldiers were kneeling beside the prostrate form of Marguerite.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
having or revealing little emotion -- especially under circumstances others would find exciting