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)
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Examples for "countenance "
Examples for "countenance "
1 However, Mr Ford today stated his unwillingness to even countenance the suggestion.
2 In his countenance there was no beauty; in his bearing no elegance.
3 In a few minutes Lincoln came back down with a different countenance .
4 Angry lines appeared on the countenance of the representative of social decorum.
5 Her countenance was calm without being grave; she smiled with her eyes.
1 Timing the stock market is mug 's game, as Maurice Pratt might say.
2 A few minutes later Patricia handed me a mug of hot chocolate.
3 The city police are putting their own list of mug shots together.
4 I stared into my mug , rethinking my decision to delay going home.
5 Yet she remains bitter about the public posting of her mug shot.
1 A look of grave perplexity rested on the visage of the Eskimo.
2 The old woman turned her wrinkled visage up to his in wonder.
3 A momentary look of guilt passed across his daughter's otherwise perfect visage .
4 His grave, shadowy-lined, iron visage showed the traces of time and experience.
5 The father read it, and, after a few lines, with grave visage .
1 This address caused a considerable change in the physiognomy of my auditor.
2 She mimicked the Lenkenstein physiognomy spontaneously in the run of her speech.
3 I couldn't help thinking how the job had molded the man's physiognomy .
4 This grandiose apostrophe was scarcely in accord with his costume and physiognomy .
5 There is nothing in my poor physiognomy worthy of your briefest attention.
1 In fact, a sorry kisser almost always resulted in a sorry lover.
2 Her body seemed to care only that he was a top-of-the-line kisser .
3 LaGuerta is very very good at kissing ass, a world-class ass kisser .
4 The vampire took that blast from the mine right in the kisser .
5 Third Floor Clyde, I had to admit, had been a very good kisser .
1 Two of them charged him suddenly-theredhead and the unpleasant smiler .
2 I should smiler Bland's been up all night after a most draggin' ride home.
3 The smiler with the knife hid under the cloak.
4 There are few more level-headed athletes in professional sport than the 25-year-old smiler from Eastbourne.
5 Both of them were gray-haired, Miriam firm-jawed and dark-eyed and Franklin a simple, jocular smiler .
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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