The human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
1 I was not in the least cold, except my thumb and phiz .
2 One of them such an awful phiz that I'm afraid of her.
3 I suppose you thought you couldn't affect my dark, old, saddle-flap-looking phiz .
4 And I appear so penitent and wear so long a phiz
5 But never shall I forget the rage that gleamed in the tyrant's phiz !
6 Well, she has a pleasant little phiz , now hasn't she, Mr. Van Berg?
7 Dean Swift, the great Irish satirist, coined the word " phiz " for face.
8 If anything at all would make me take notice it's your own pretty phiz .
9 No patriot would go into the war with such a miserable phiz as that.
10 There was no mistaking that tanned, genial phiz of his.
11 I'd sooner have seen her jolly little phiz than all Lady Bassett's wreathed smiles.
12 As for Reuben's honest phiz , it was a sight to behold in its perfect satisfaction.
13 Thou didst carry a phiz like an excommunicated deacon's.
14 It's easy to see from your jaundiced phiz that for you blood-letting is no cure.
15 He has a long pedigree, a crooked tail and the drollest " phiz " in dogdom.
16 Even in the apothecaries of Venice I find your phiz , stamped on little pots and bottles!'
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