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Sentences ending with countenance

She followed him with her eyes as he passed from her sight through the door, and when it closed after him sobbed tremulously once or twice, but stilled herself, and met Helen, as she entered, with a composed countenance. [6]
He wandered about with a dreadfully disconsolate look upon his countenance. [6]
I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. [5]
Her motherly solicitude was aroused, and she tried to get him interested in the talk and win him to a happier frame of mind, but the cloud of sadness remained on his countenance. [5]
As for Dudley Veneer, Mr. Bernard could not help being struck by the animated expression of his countenance. [6]
Only it had to talk with its face alone; and such speaking eyes, such rapid alternations of feeling and shifting expressions of thought as flitted over its face, I have never seen in any other human countenance. [6]
It was as though Ferens had stumbled and been badly hit in his fall, but there were no signs of permanent evil in his countenance. [11]
The king wavered, then his inclination began to settle and strengthen--one could see it in his countenance. [5]
But at last the word "circumstance," casually dropped, in the course of conversation, attracted his attention and brought an eager look into his countenance. [5]
We exclaimed on the spot at the Madonna-like beauty of her countenance. [5]

Short sentences using countenance

His countenance grew peaceful. [11]
Joy sat upon every countenance. [5]
Edith's countenance fell. [4]

Sentences containing countenance two or more times

It was open as the day, bright with the cheerfulness of her father's countenance, alive with a humour which that countenance did not possess. [11]

More example sentences with the word countenance in them

She was still young, but her slightly pockmarked countenance showed the wear and tear of sorrow of some kind. [11]
Night and day you can find him pegging away at Smith, panting with his labor, sleeves rolled up, countenance all alive with enjoyment. [5]
He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
But if you won't sell at any price, all right; we must try to worry along without the light of your countenance on, the posters, but we got to have it for the banquet. [8]
The warm confidence with which Mary, the widow of the King of Hungary, who fell in the Turkish war, gazed into Quijada's finely modelled, slightly bronzed countenance proved that she knew how to estimate his worth aright. [10]
This head smiles with sweet fascination, and the countenance of the goddess that rules the actions even of the immortals, should be stern and grave. [10]
She was dressed with more than usual nicety, and her countenance showed clearly that she came charged with an important communication. [6]
Opening the door with all speed, he beheld the expressive countenance of Mr Chuckster, between whom and himself a fraternal greeting ensued. [12]
He presented himself with a somewhat forlorn countenance to Dr. Fordyce Hurlbut, as suffering from some of the less formidable symptoms of that affection. [6]
He inquired also with a merry countenance after the piece of ordnance that Smith had promised to send him, and Smith, with equal jocularity, replied that he had offered the men four demi-culverins, which they found too heavy to carry. [4]
She came on with a calm and cheerful countenance, stopped once, and casting her eyes upwards, said, 'Why have they kept me five days from thee, my husband? [5]
Wilhelm's milder features were really those of a poet, while Jakob's sterner cast of countenance, and his piercing eyes, indicated more naturally a searcher after knowledge. [10]
Anger and surprise were depicted on his countenance, which was usually so happy. [10]
The Queen's garments were chiefly variegated bath-towels, and she was rubbing her beaming countenance and ample bosom with hair-oil and essence of new-mown hay. [11]
Such as I was that in thy countenance Found favour, from her it was gathered most. [11]
And the informer was right, for Caesar's countenance brightened. [10]
In the eye was a penetrating but abstracted look, and the countenance had the gravity of a priest lighted by a cheerful soul within. [11]
When a lady walks the streets, she leaves her virtuous-indignation countenance at home; she knows well enough that the street is a picture-gallery, where pretty faces framed in pretty bonnets are meant to be seen, and everybody has a right to see them. [6]
But when, after waking the priest, she had asked how much a goat might cost for sacrifice, her countenance cleared, for her savings were enough to pay for it and for a young cock as well. [10]
The most of us can learn to forgive, and even to like, a countenance that strikes us unpleasantly at first, but few of us, I fancy, become reconciled to a jarring name so easily. [5]
I picked it up where he stood when he fired the fatal train," He looked out over the house from his high perch, and his countenance began to darken; he slowly raised his hand, and pointed: "There stands the assassin! [5]
His cravat was untied, his hair was in a state of disorder, and his countenance bore about it the signs of a suppressed storm. [5]
I will indeed try to deserve your love and kindness; and you--you will be to me all that your loving countenance seems to promise? [10]
Now he began to shave, digging his fingers into my countenance to stretch the skin and bundling and tumbling my head this way and that as convenience in shaving demanded. [5]
When he tried to rouse him and spur him to greater energy his favorite would look at him beseechingly, and though he made every effort to be of use to him and to show him a cheerful countenance it was always with but brief success. [10]
Colonel Lloyd whispered to me to keep my countenance, that they were not after very large game that morning,--only Chipchase, the butcher. [9]
And she managed to keep the good news to herself, though it would seem that the most careless observer might have seen by her springing step and her radiant countenance that some fine piece of good fortune had descended upon her. [5]
Is there anything to countenance the stories, long and widely current, about the "evil eye"? [6]
I haven't whispered to a soul--not a word--have had my countenance under lock and key, for fear it might drop something that would tell even these animals here how to discern the gold mine that's glaring under their noses. [5]
General attention was thus drawn to the poor fellow, and a great many people came forward and helped him toward reform with their countenance and encouragement. [5]
Whether or not those who countenance Homoeopathy are guilty of this injustice towards others, the second of these Lectures may afford them some means of determining. [6]
Examined in detail, this and much of the show of testimony brought up to stare the daylight of conviction out of countenance, proves to be in a great measure unmeaning and inapplicable, as might be easily shown were it necessary. [3]
The owner of the voice bore all the marks of a gentleman: picturesque and costly raiment, the aspect of command, a hard countenance, with complexion and features marred by dissipation. [5]
His countenance expressed the utmost degree of ferocity and cunning. [6]
The doctor asks the questions, generally, because he can keep his countenance, and look more like an inspired idiot, and throw more imbecility into the tone of his voice than any man that lives. [5]
A smile which the priests of lower rank who surrounded his litter knew not how to interpret, flitted over his shrewd, defiant countenance. [10]
The countenance of the musician was towards them, and at last, as though by accident, Elizabeth looked up and saw the face of her lady. [11]
I knew thee the moment I saw thee; and main hard work it was to keep a stony countenance and seem to see none here but tuppenny knaves and rubbish o' the streets. [5]
Scattered all about the mighty monolith were sphinxes of noble countenance, carved out of Egyptian granite as hard as blue steel, and whose shapely features the wear of five thousand years had failed to mark or mar. [5]
His objections exceeded the highest hopes; he dug his claws into the wood and devoted himself to Sarah's countenance with unremitting industry. [9]
The Member of the Haouse was just saying that this bill hit his constitooents in their most vital--when a pellet hit him in the feature of his countenance most exposed to aggressions and least tolerant of liberties. [6]
Her countenance had the features of the wife of Mena. [10]
On his departure the district attorney's countenance changed. [9]
Looming up above the crowd was the smiling and encouraging countenance of the ever active, always present, always helpful Mr. Smalley. [6]
She heard again that voice, she saw again that inspired face; but the impression most indelible with her was the prostrate form, the pallid countenance, the helplessness of this man whose will had before been strong enough to compel the obedience of his despised body. [4]
And I own that Captain Daniel can swear with such a consuming violence as to put any rogue out of countenance. [9]
On a little table lay a mirror; he looked into the clear metal pane, and laid it back in its place again, as if he had seen some strange and displeasing countenance. [10]
His temples were sunken, his cheeks hollow, and his face was full of those shadows which lend a sort of tragedy to even the humblest and least distinguished countenance. [11]
Such tranquil stupidity, such supernatural gravity, such self-righteousness, and such ineffable self-complacency as were in the countenance and attitude of that gray-bodied, dark-winged, bald-headed, and preposterously uncomely bird! [5]
They represented him stretched upon the cross, his countenance distorted with agony. [5]
Her eyes had strayed from the Royal Countenance, and were fixed upon a point in the row of heads outside the promenade. [9]
The Emperor welcomed Smith with a kind countenance, caused him to sit beside him, and with pretty discourse they renewed their old acquaintance. [4]
While great and small were rejoicing over the grand old knight's bounty he himself would ever stand apart, and his calm, hueless countenance expressed no change. [10]
He was a small man, slovenly in dress, his tone confidential, his manner wholly void of animation, all his features below the forehead protruding--particularly the apple of his throat--hair without a kink in it, a hand with no grip, a meek, hang-dog countenance. [5]
He could remain silent for hours without being at all put out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. [2]
The old answering signs of faith and hope showed up in Hawkins's countenance, and he said: "Only money? [5]
It was, in short, a lawn-mower for the masculine growth of which the proprietor wishes to rid his countenance. [6]
By and by she turned; her countenance had cleared; the dreamy look was gone out of her face, all indecision had vanished; the poise of her head and the firm set of her lips told that her resolution was formed. [5]
Bye and bye she said--watching his downcast countenance out of the corner of her eye-- "It's so lonesome--with papa and mamma gone. [5]
During this time she frequently inquired whether her features really were not beautiful enough to be copied for the countenance of a goddess, and when he eagerly assured her of the fact, made him swear that he was not deceiving her with flattery. [10]
I have rarely seen a man put out of countenance so easily as was Mr. Dix that morning when he met his Lordship's fixed gaze from the arm-chair. [9]
Now, indeed, I see that your matted hair sits round a well featured countenance. [10]
While reading, Maria saw in imagination Jacoba's pretty face, and the handsome, enthusiastic countenance of her bridegroom. [10]
None was here save the old grandam, and her countenance beamed with joy as she held out her hands to me from her arm-chair, in glad and hearty greeting. [10]
Amazement and terror sat upon every countenance, for everybody suspected that the skeleton was Urso's. [5]
The countenance of Sampson fell, and anxiety overspread his features. [12]
Thou hast the same hair, the same eyes, the same voice and manner, the same form and stature, the same face and countenance that I bear. [5]
In the first rooms she needed an escort, for they were crowded with Romans and Alexandrians who were waiting for a sign from Caesar to appeal for his pardon or his verdict, or perhaps only wishing to see his countenance. [10]
In his councillor's robes bordered with fur, with the golden chain round his neck, his well-favored, grave, and manly countenance, and the long, flowing hair down to his shoulders, meseemed he might have been the head of some ancient and noble family. [10]
A settled sadness rested once more upon the countenance of the good Duke's daughter. [5]
She was deeply religious, and this is a thing which sometimes gives a melancholy cast to a person's countenance, but it was not so in her case. [5]
His countenance was red and distorted; he trembled with rage, and his angry glance fell like a flash of lightning on the luckless brothers. [10]
Riley has a ready wit, a quickness and aptness at selecting and applying quotations, and a countenance that is as solemn and as blank as the back side of a tombstone when he is delivering a particularly exasperating joke. [5]
His countenance had put on an expression of eager attention, and he once more took up the painting attributed to Apelles, sat down with it on the couch, and appeared wholly absorbed in the contemplation of the picture, which hid his face from the bystanders. [10]
Money was as plenty as dust; every individual considered himself wealthy, and a melancholy countenance was nowhere to be seen. [5]
It was dully perceptible in the mean form, the countenance, and even the clothes, gestures, manner, and attitudes of the creature. [5]
As to mine own poor countenance, I may number it indeed with those in shadow--notwithstanding"--here his flow of words stopped on a sudden. [10]
A sickly pallor overspread his countenance, and he trembled like an aspen. [5]
When he came out at last, they all knew by his worshiping countenance that he brought light. [5]
After a knock or two here, the door opened a crack, disclosing, instead of General Doby's cherubic countenance, a sallow face with an exceedingly pointed nose. [9]
Nobility was written on the placid, apathetic countenance, except when it was not under observation, and then the look of Cain took its place. [11]
His hand was on the pit of his stomach, and his countenance was expressive of inward uneasiness. [6]
She answered and old Pastor Macklin entered, a white-haired man of kindly yet stern countenance, by nature a gentleman, by practice a bigot. [11]
In the presence of these proofs of maternal solicitude the morose, wrinkled countenance of the old sorceress wore a kind, almost tender expression, and the light of joyous anticipation beamed upon her young guest from her red-rimmed eyes. [10]
As the countenance of the stout lady began to clear up, she ventured to inquire how far it was. [12]
The wrinkled countenance of the old woman, who, even on her sick-bed, retained her neat appearance, expressed shrewdness and energy. [10]
True, he thought of the late springtime of love which he had enjoyed as an exquisite gift of Fortune, and when he remembered many a tender interview with Barbara a bright smile flitted over his grave countenance. [10]
A single look of that heavenly countenance, and two words of gentle command, were enough for him. [6]
But the gravity of Mr. Cooke's countenance remained serene. [9]
Only the shape of his countenance and his eyes were what they had ever been; nay, meseemed that his eyes had a brighter and moister light in them than of yore. [10]
Is it majesty of build, beauty of countenance? [5]
Intellect, courage, majesty of build, beauty of countenance, charity, benevolence, magnanimity, kindliness, heroism, and--and-- O.M. [5]
That countenance cannot now be changed by argument. [7]
She had previously noticed an old priest, whose countenance bore the impress of genuine kindness of heart. [10]
This was particularly noticeable on Nesvitski's usually laughing countenance. [2]
And they did not; but the national spirit of unselfishness led them to divide up with neighbors who were not at the distribution, and next Sabbath the poor preachers could hardly keep countenance before their vast congregations. [5]
The moon could not put her out of countenance. [4]
Therefore complain I not of modern degeneracy, when, even from the open window of the small unlovely farmhouse, tenanted by the hard-handed man of bovine flavors and the flat-patterned woman of broken-down countenance, issue the same familiar sounds. [6]
Master H. Frederic next made his appearance, with questionable marks upon his fingers and countenance. [6]
But I found myself continually returning to the countenance, and I still think I could have modelled a better face out of putty. [9]

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