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Sentences ending with expression

The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. [6]
Brooks, I wish you could see the father, he's so typically unique--if one may use the expression. [9]
Nevertheless no one would have taken them to be even distantly related; their countenances were so infinitely unlike in expression. [10]
She lay trembling with the horror of the dream-spell upon her, still more than half convinced that the siren was Ditmar's voice, his true expression. [9]
Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. [2]
The trying months which she had described in her letters to Barine had completely blanched her grey hair, her cheeks were sunken, and a deep line between her mouth and nose gave her pleasant face a sorrowful expression. [10]
The pure brow, which seemed to him too high for a woman's face, wore an indignant frown; and though her mouth was beautiful in form, its outlines were often marred by a passionate tremor that lent the exquisitely chiselled features a harsh, nay, bitter expression. [10]
The deep blush which crimsoned Euthymia's cheek at Lurida's suggestion was in a strange contrast to her own undisturbed expression. [6]
Her dark eyes, which at first had glittered distrustfully and questioningly and afterwards glowed with a gloomy light, now gained a new expression. [10]
By this time, when he turned to me, he had regained his usual expression. [9]

Short sentences using expression

The Vicomte's expression was reproachful. [9]
The expression is very interesting. [5]
McGuire was his strongest expression. [11]
Her expression was still enigmatic. [9]
This expression evidently pleased him. [2]
Melioration, a characteristic expression, 405. [6]
Haughty, a characteristic expression, 405. [6]
I saw Nick's expression change. [9]
Then his expression changed. [9]
The man's expression changed. [9]

Sentences containing expression two or more times

And again all the faces in that crowd bore an identical expression, though now it was certainly not an expression of curiosity or gratitude, but of angry resolve. [2]
But when at length, at twilight, he had risen to go, he had taken both her hands and looked down into her face with a very different expression than she had seen him wear before--a much more serious expression, which puzzled her. [9]
His long, lean face wore a certain expression Janet had come to know, an expression that always irritated Ditmar--the conscientious superintendent having the unfortunate faculty of exaggerating annoyances by his very bearing. [9]
Meantime, I shall be admonished by this expression of your thought, to revise with greater care the 'address,' before it is printed (for the use of the class): and I heartily thank you for this expression of your tried toleration and love. [6]
She was looking at them with an expression they both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. [2]

More example sentences with the word expression in them

He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
They trust that you will receive it as an expression of sincere regard and affection from friends, who will, one and all, esteem it a great privilege to be permitted to assist in the restoration of your home. [6]
And a joyful yet pathetic expression which seemed to beg forgiveness for her joy settled on Natasha's face. [2]
He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
Mr Brass, after writhing about, in a great many strange attitudes, and often twisting his face and eyes into an expression like that which is usually produced by eating gooseberries very early in the season, was by this time awake also. [12]
Sometimes her eyes would wander off to Mr. Bernard, and their expression, as old Dr. Kittredge, who watched her for a while pretty keenly, noticed, would change perceptibly. [6]
And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre. [2]
But the unhappy woman's expression changed, and she looked down kindly on Melissa. [10]
They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs. [2]
If he agrees with most of them, let him be patient with an opinion he does not accept, or an expression or illustration a little too vivacious. [6]
Loud cheers, mingled with many an expression of displeasure, were heard. [10]
Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
He met me with an expression I failed to fathom, and then my eye was held by a letter in his hand. [9]
Suddenly I discovered with a flush that she was looking at me intently, without embarrassment, but with an expression that seemed to hint of humor in the situation. [9]
A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant as he rode by. [2]
Meantime a stranger, who looked like an amateur detective gotten up as an impossible English earl, had been watching the evening's proceedings with manifest interest, and with a contented expression in his face; and he had been privately commenting to himself. [5]
Here the General, who had been sitting by watching them with a very curious expression, spoke up. [9]
They overdid flattery, which she was used to and tolerated, but which cheapened the admirer in her estimation, and now and then betrayed her into an expression which made him aware of the fact, and was a discouragement to aggressive amiability. [6]
An expression, indeed, which made the banker almost unrecognizable. [9]
The old antagonism, which had had its sharpest expression the last time they had met on the platform at Heddington, came back. [11]
The effervescing spirits which did not find vent in such pranks obtained expression in a different form. [10]
All the affection which bound the sisters together found expression at this moment of parting. [10]
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]
How warmly, with what convincing tones he understood how to give expression to his love to-day! [10]
Before her words were out, Pierre had sprung up and with a frightened expression seized Princess Mary's hand. [2]
Commands, threats, punishments, were out of the question with her; the mere physical effects of crossing her will betrayed themselves in such changes of expression and manner that it would have been senseless to attempt to govern her in any such way. [6]
All her sympathies were excited by the thought of this forlorn stranger in his solitude, but she felt the impossibility of giving any complete expression to them. [6]
Yet his words were accompanied by such a charm of action and expression, that the king could understand them, notwithstanding the defective Persian in which they were clothed, better than the allegorical speeches of his own subjects. [10]
Scarce an evening went by without an expression of uneasiness from Hannah. [9]
The fair-haired man's well-cut features wore the rigid, lifeless expression of a mask. [10]
The widow never wearied of gazing at the young man's fresh, bright face, for although her son could not compare with him in beauty, there was an honest expression in the Junker's eyes, which reminded her of her Wilhelm. [10]
When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another. [2]
Is there any way for us Protestants, when love for the dead longs to find expression in action, except to adorn with flowers the places which contain their earthly remains? [10]
Dr. Courtenay's expression was worth a pistole. [9]
Eva's only answer was the expression of her grief for his friend's decease. [10]
John said it was splendid, and he would lend it to her, for which she thanked him, and said, with such a sweet expression, she should be so glad to have it from him. [4]
Although his dancing was perfect, he lost the step without apparent cause, his expression changed, and for the moment he seemed to be utterly confused. [9]
Kutuzov's general expression was one of concentrated quiet attention, and his face wore a strained look as if he found it difficult to master the fatigue of his old and feeble body. [2]
This continued patronage was not a conscious expression of superiority on my part, but he did not seem to resent it. [9]
Life, she said, was her idea, life in its utmost expression, untrammeled, and yes, a little Greek. [4]
Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and at last Anna Mikhaylovna, still with the same expression, pale but resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly on the arm said: "The divine mercy is inexhaustible! [2]
In the public walks and lounges of a town, people go to see and to be seen, and there the same expression, with little variety, is repeated a hundred times. [12]
That expression of Virginia's had reminded him of a time, years gone, when she had come into the store on her return from Kentucky, and had ordered him to tell her father of her arrival. [9]
But she was very pale, and I noticed for the first time a worn expression that gave me a twinge of uneasiness. [9]
It is his very image, and, as Papa said when he saw it, scarcely in the least like the ordinary portraits; not only the expression, but even the form of the head is different, and of a far nobler character. [14]
There was something very fine, he thought, about her carriage and expression as she stood in front of him. [9]
As for Dudley Veneer, Mr. Bernard could not help being struck by the animated expression of his countenance. [6]
I have never used that expression before, and I beg you will forgive it this time. [5]
The Reverend Mather,--I use a mode of expression he often employed when speaking of his honored brethren,--the Reverend Mather was right this time, and the irreverent doctors who laughed at him were wrong. [3]
Prince Andrew went up to Pierre, and the latter noticed a new and youthful expression in his friend's face. [2]
Presently Wilson glanced up suddenly with a surprised expression. [5]
Mr. Vane looked up at his son with a curious expression. [9]
As she looked up a perfectly radiant smile illuminated her usually plain face, an unworldly expression of such purity and happiness that she seemed actually beautiful to the priest, who stopped, hesitating, upon the threshold. [4]
The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. [5]
Prince Vasili frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. [2]
He says "Mark Twain is not merely a great writer, a great philosopher, a great man; he is the supreme expression of the human being, with his strength and his weakness. [5]
He had a trick of looking downward with a quizzical expression in his dark grey eyes. [9]
The young man took a step forward, and then stood staring at her with such a comical expression of injury on his face as was too much for Miss Jinny's serenity. [9]
This is often, too, the timid expression of a tender feeling, under Puritanic repression, which has not sufficient vent in the sweet-william and hollyhock at the front door. [4]
Every look, movement, tone, expression, subject of discourse, that may give pain to another is habitually excluded from conversational intercourse. [6]
But as he told of one striking incident in the Rockies, he heard Jacques make a quick expression of dissent. [11]
If they were to turn one loose now, he would not get as far as the Garden of Gethsemane, till these miserable vagabonds here would gobble him up,--[Favorite pilgrim expression. [5]
She didn't want to think--only to feel, to enjoy, to wring the utmost flavour of enchantment from these new surroundings; and her face wore the expression of one in a dream. [9]
He was fain to take what comfort he could from this expression of good-will. [9]
It is easy to see that he is kind and affectionate There is something very noble in his expression when his cap is off. [5]
It is enough to say, that I found just what I expected to, and that I think this attack is only the prelude of more serious consequences,--which expression means you very well know what. [6]
One is likely to remain in the inmost recesses of his heart an alien, and as a final expression of his feeling to hoist the green flag, or the dragon, or the cross of St. George. [4]
When he desired to please, his conversation and the expression of his face must have moved a temperament of stone itself. [9]
When they came to opening the pasty the expression of his face changed; he frowned and asked the prefect in a suspicious tone, severely and sternly: "How came these people by such a pasty as this? [10]
I should wish to keep it in rational strength and coolness; but to do so I must determinedly resist the kindly-meant, but too irksome expression of an apprehension, for the realisation or defeat of which I have no possible power to be responsible. [14]
Here, it seemed to him, that the Divine being would hear the lightest murmur of his lips, though indeed his heart was so full of gratitude and devotion that his impulse was to give expression to his mighty flow of feelings in jubilant song. [10]
These backs seemed to him full of expression. [9]
The lad spoke to her, giving expression to his sympathy, and she accepted it; but she said such strange things, and answered him so utterly at random, that he began to fear that grief had turned her brain. [10]
This was intended to give her a holiday appearance, but the expression of her faithful eyes and the smile upon her sunken mouth showed her darling that his return was a festival to her. [10]
It had only to do with understanding, with the call of nature and of a motherhood crying for expression. [11]
It proposes simply to co-operate with any State by giving such State pecuniary aid"; and he thought that the resolution, as proposed by him, would be considered rather as the expression of a sentiment than as involving any constitutional question. [7]
The Nubian waited to be summoned, but her dark face must have showed distinctly that something important and urgent had brought her here, for the wounded man added to his first words of greeting the expression of a fear that she had no good news. [10]
From time to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pavlovna, at once adopted just the expression she saw on the maid of honor's face, and again relapsed into her radiant smile. [2]
From time to time he was aware of the grey-green eyes curiously fixed on him, and at a loss to account for their expression. [9]
The longer he thought, the less amiable his expression became. [10]
And then I thought what an inadequate language the English is for compact expression. [4]
She was sometimes thought to be fifteen or even sixteen; her mobile face did not retain the same expression a single instant. [10]
Possibly because he thought that he discovered in me a talent for poetic expression, he showed me unusual favor, even read his own verses aloud to me, and set me special tasks in verse-writing, which he criticised with me when I had finished. [10]
And when she thought of this the strange eyes and baffling expression of Mrs. Grainger rose before her. [9]
Whatever may be thought of my books, they represent nothing except my own bent of mind, my own wilful expression of myself, and the setting forth of that which seized my imagination. [11]
But Anatole's expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne's little foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. [2]
Natasha was calm, though a severe and grave expression had again settled on her face. [2]
Father Damon understood this, and he went away profoundly grateful for her forbearance of verbal expression as much as for her sympathy. [4]
They knew that this would suggest the comparison between Caesar and the sanguinary wretch whose name had been applied to him, and all who were eager to give expression to their vexation or dissatisfaction took the hint and joined in the outcry. [10]
It was on this wise (which is a favorite expression of great authors, and a very neat one, too, but I never hear anybody say on this wise when they are talking). [5]
The expression of this sentiment was fiercely written in his face, and stood thus revealed to Roxana by a white glare of lightning which turned the somber dusk of the room into dazzling day at that moment. [5]
In return for this mark of attention, Tom immediately walked upon his hands to the window, and--if the expression be allowable--looked in with his shoes: besides rattling his feet upon the glass like a Banshee upside down. [12]
He dared not think that the expression he caught was one of sympathy, for it changed instantly. [9]
She could not think of the mill as belonging to the Chipperings and the other stockholders, but to Ditmar, who had shaped it into an expression of himself, since it was his ideal. [9]
But the remarkable thing about it is that heretofore in all nations and times, and in all changes of fashion in dress, the rose has held its own as the queen of flowers and as the finest expression of sentiment. [4]
The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play of expression on his face. [2]
Not merely in these cases but continually did that old man--who by experience of life had reached the conviction that thoughts and the words serving as their expression are not what move people--use quite meaningless words that happened to enter his head. [2]
I can understand these alternations of feeling in a young person who has been long absorbed in a single pursuit, and in whom the human instincts which have been long silent are now beginning to find expression. [6]
In his manner there was no hesitation, in his expression no uncertainty. [4]
When he turned there was another expression in his eyes and a note of tenderness in his voice that contradicted the severity of the priest. [4]

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