He was sitting in his chair with a bored, blasé expression on his face, as if tragedies were so commonplace in his life that they lacked interest and were positively wearisome.
He always smiled in conversation, but in moments of repose his features settled into an expression that was half thoughtful, half sad.
Just for some idle expression of sympathy for the South, all sorts of really inoffensive people were clapped into Alcatraz and subjected to indignity and loss.
I communicated this desire to Alfred Rubery one day, just as the expression of a wish.
Not with any expression of pleased vanity, but rather with merciless criticism.
White and haggard, Stephen stood in shadow-way, his eyes fixed on Jack and Una with an expression of mingled astonishment and rage beyond all description.
He looked tired, pale and worn, and the smile with which he met her was a singular one, one that would have been almost triumphant but for the expression of anxiety underlying it.
And, by the way, do not allow any expression of astonishment to escape you if, when you see her, you feel astonished at her appearance or manner.
Stephen started, and concealed his expression of surprise by reaching for his glass.
Notwithstanding the rather bored and surly--not to say ferocious expression which set upon it--she thought him handsomer than even she had remembered him.
Then, as he stood silent, with a look of gentle pity and sorrow on his pale face, a sharp expression of apprehension flashed across her face.
In place of the weary, abstracted air, which had settled upon him during the long months of the search of Laura Treherne, there was an expression of hopefulness and energy which was distinctly palpable.
And she looked up with the anxious, questioning expression which Una noticed was always present when Stephen Davenant was mentioned.
But Una heard neither the expressionof pity nor the sigh.
Mrs. Davenant looked up with the nervous, deprecatory expression which always came upon her face when she was in the presence of her son.
The woodman walked back a few yards, then stopped, and looked after the stalwart figure until it deepened in the gloom, a thoughtful, puzzled expression upon his face, as if he were trying to call up some recollection.
Mr. Hudsley was standing at the table, and looked up with his wrinkled face and keen eyes--not a trace of expression beyond keenness in them.
For a few moments he stood with a half-searching, half-absent expression on his pale face, then turned and entered the wood again.
The sudden, grotesque alertness of her expression attracted the laggard interest of the young Journalist at her left.
But this girl's face was so thick with beauty that you could not tell in one glance, or even two glances, or perhaps three, whether she had any expression at all.
And yet only six months before every animal on the place had looked like her with that strange, absurd mimicry of human expression that characterizes the faces of all much-cherished birds or beasties.
His complexion was deeply bronzed by the sun, and there was that steady but watchful expression in his eyes that is characteristic of men who have gone through long and dangerous service.
Cheerful as his tones were, there was an expression of anxiety in it.
Her face was a bright and sunny one, but her eyes were unchanged, and there was an earnestness in their expression which, with a certain resolute curve in the lips, gave character to the laughing brightness of her face.
George's lips closed, and an expression of grim determination came over his face.
Whereas here, people dance as if it was rather a painful duty than otherwise, and there is a general expression of a longing for the whole thing to be over.
Accustomed as Frank was to read her thoughts, he was not deceived by the expression of regret that she should now see but little of him, as he saw the news was really pleasant to her.
It is the expression of GOD in action: a deed of Divine self- sacrifice: a voluntary taking upon Himself by man's Eternal Lover of the burden of man's misery and sin.
They have felt that in Jesus Christ GOD, the Eternal Source of all things, has expressed and revealed Himself in a human life: that GOD has spoken a Word, a Word which is the expression of Himself: and that the Word is Christ.
And Christ died because of His love for men, and as the expression of the love of GOD for men.
All of them together are needed to give adequate expression in human life to the many-sided riches of GOD in Christ.
The essence of Christian almsgiving is that it should be the expression of Christian charity or love: and love means the willingness to serve others, at cost to self.
No Christian, lay or clerical, has any business to be shocked at any expression of opinion whatever, orthodox or unorthodox, whether in faith or in morals.
The maturest expression of what He meant to them is contained in the great reflective Gospel--an interpretation rather than a simple portrait of the historical Jesus-- which is ascribed by tradition to S.
The expressionon the dying man's face grew eager as he answered, "Yes, yes, very small and very rare.
Thirteenth--The boundless fountain of infinite energy in atoms in body and atoms through measureless space are superior to any mere sun form or world form of visible expression of such energy.
All nature is a visible expression of Omnipotent Deity, all the universe is a symbol of creative power and wisdom which is boundless and enduring, and proclaims that our world, the sun and the universe are eternal and enduring.
Fourteenth--As all visible forms of matter are built from invisible elementary atoms, so the most efficient display of electric power finds its expression and source in the same elementary atoms.
Man is the most perfect enfoldment of nature's electric laws, and the world and the universe are the universal expression of electric life and energy.
And man is a spiritualized being with brain organs adapted to theexpression of ideas that respond to the spiritual state of life.
Its power and expression are universal and its character and process superlatively grand.
I am the heir of all wisdom, the expression of all beauty, the revelation of love and truth, the life proclamation of the Eternal.
The spirit would have the power of thought and consecutive reasoning as much after its transition from mortal life as before, but it would lack the power of expression through ordinary channels.
All things man creates are the representatives of his thought, the outward expression of his soul.
Herbert Spencer's "persistency of matter and force" is but anotherexpression of the reign of law.
Language is man's expression of the finite, with its infinite meanings modified by the extent of his intelligence and his power of expression.
These statutes emanate from the people, are the expression of their will, and in consonance with them the action of the executive authorities must proceed, whenever the civil law is sufficient for the execution of legal measures.
Then, taking the brush in his glittering hands, with rapid touch he gave the lovely face an expression of tender innocence, of virgin purity, of maternal love and adoration, which will never cease to thrill the heart of the faithful.
Oh, what brilliancy and glory Had illumed my life's dull story, Could those thoughts have found expression as within my soul they shone!
I have lost the expression for the face of the Madonna.
You must not give our friends a false impression of James's childhood, Sister Phoebe," said Miss Vesta, looking up with the expression of a valorous dove.
Anthony, glancing up at the blind house-front with an expression which said plainly enough "It won't be any use.
It is an expression that is frequently used, Cousin Phoebe," he said.
I wish you could have come," she said softly, and again the expression that so embellished it stole over her face.
He would not look at her face, half out of pity for her, half out of an almost childish terror of the deep disappointment to himself, should he see its expressionturn into hard resentment.
The words were slightly defiant, but the tone was subdued, and Nina, looking at her sister, was struck by the curious expression of her face.
He looked a man of about forty, though in reality he was some years younger; his expression was gentle but rather piercing.
A pleased expressioncame into Mr Morison's face, though he said nothing.
Something in her tone and expression made Philip stop short and look at her sharply.
And his glance rested with pleasure on the somewhat anxious but thoroughly womanly and gentle expression of Nina's fair face, as she just then entered the room, followed by Arthur.
Her features are all that I pictured them, but the soft sweet expression is gone.
In he hurried, not waiting for the footman to announce him, a bright, eager expressionon his face, an opened envelope in his hand.
Nina walked on, her blue eyes fixed on the ground, her fair face contracted into an expression of unusual perplexity.
There was no visible change of expression in the stranger's face, but one knowing him well would have seen a light in his eyes that was not there before.
She was disappointed, too, that Godfrey did not seem more eager to see Nina again, and there were times when Nina's rather troubled and anxious expression made her tremble for the success of her scheme.
Nor is the expression "necessities of life" to be interpreted too nicely.
Her voice, the movements of her body, the expression of her face all said the same thing.
As her eyes met his, their expression of wonder gave way to one of gratitude.
But it was the expression of the man that was most impressive--his brooding appearance of enormous patience.
His expression bore testimony to the medley of his emotions, the chief of which was astonishment.
Then he noticed the panting of her bosom and that her expressionwas tender with tremulous emotion.
The practice of painting hitherto has seemed to challenge the possibility of combining these two things--human expression and accurate representation of inanimate or lower nature.
Mark the clear, brilliant, towering sublimity of expression as Semiramide holds on the C in alt.
We have already seen that the old minstrels used certain forms of expression as helps to memory, and these recur in ballads that have little or no connection with each other.
The expression nut-brown sword was used to designate a Damascus blade.
From the expression of squire minstrel above, we may conclude there were other inferior orders, as yeomen minstrels or the like.
As to the scene of the disaster, Aytoun brings forward an interesting illustration of the expression "half over to Aberdour," in line 41.
It was thought that the likeness in expression and sentiment there mentioned might easily be explained if the two poems were both by Lady Wardlaw.
In fact the ministry as then organized was a mere makeshift until the time came for obtaining an expression of opinion from the people at the polls.
The secularization of the reserves, and the question of the seigniorial tenure were not to be taken up until the people had given an expression of opinion as to the ministerial policy generally.
The speaker was privileged, and could be instructed as "the mouth-piece" of the House, to lay before the representative of the Sovereign an expression of opinion on urgent questions of the day.
The inhabitants on the Canadian side were "for the most part United Empire Loyalists" and differed little in habits or modes of thought and expression from their neighbours.
He gave full expression to the general feeling of the country that "Great Britain must make good to the province the expenses entailed on it by this visitation.
These concluding words of Lord Elgin recall a similar expression of feeling by Sir Étienne Pascal Taché, "That the last gun that would be fired for British supremacy in America would be fired by a French Canadian.
Valckenaer observes, that this is an expressionmeaning facie aversa, and compares l.
For neither was the expression of her eyes clear, nor her noble countenance; but the blood was dropping from the top of her head mixed with fire.
Warwick's smile gave place to a grave expression at this somewhat comprehensive statement.
But his expressionin that awful moment grew upon me, haunted me day and night, until I shuddered at the thought that I might ever see him again.
I think that his expression would be perhaps a little too stern; only, when he speaks or even listens, his smile has so much warmth and kindness in it.
And a slight expressionof loathing passed over the child's face.
Her features were regular and her countenance pleasing, but her complexion was so colorless, and her expression so composed and unvarying, that I had never heard her called even pretty; but that night she looked positively beautiful.
He enjoyed the expression of knock-out opinions such as: "I always bless God for making anything so strong as an onion!
But it is a mere heresy in æsthetics to say that perfectexpression is the whole of art that matters.
They are hardly more than an expression of sentiment and opinion.
We love them because, as surely as the writings of Shakespeare and Lamb, they are an expression of that sort of heroic gentleness which can endure the fires of the most devastating tragedy.
The preacher usually regards himself as a mouthpiece rather than a man giving expression to himself.
Mr. Gosse finds in The Enthusiast, written by Joseph Warton at the age of eighteen, "the earliest expression of full revolt against the classical attitude which had been sovereign in all European literature for nearly a century.
Even if the spiritual depth of his graver songs has been exaggerated, however, they are clearly the expression of a charming and tender spirit.
For him poetry is an expression of intuitions--an emotional transfiguration of life--while prose is the expression of a scientific fact or a judgment.
Coleridge's conversation is not to the same extent a coloured expressionof personality.
Mr. Sassoon has now collected all his war poems into one volume, and one is struck by the energetic hatred of those who make war in safety that finds expression in them.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Pepys's use of the expression "Lord!
I was also shown on the same occasion a female skull in such excellent preservation, that one could still easily perceive the expression of the face.
Thus, in some of the after-dinner speeches which followed in due course, as well as in the inspiring songs with which the entertainment was enlivened, there was free expressiongiven to this sentiment.
Denison's) residence we saw a photographic group of the islanders, male and female, whose pleasing expression involuntarily excited profound sympathy for the persons thus represented.
Thus they not only were instructed in the Book of books, but even in ordinary life the biblical phraseology and peculiarity of expression still clung, even to the fourth generation.
They greatly reminded me of the Havana ladies, with whom they have much in common so far as regards the passion for personal adornment, while in figure and intelligent expression of face both lag far behind the ladies of Chile.
Upwards of seventy guests sat down to a sumptuous repast, after which free flow was given to the expression of the warmest wishes for fatherland and the German nation.
There will be more than a suggestion of this in Jackson's expression and attitude.
Her motions were slow and tranquil--her voice soft--every expression of her little face extraordinarily serene.
I saw he was moved; but the expression on his face was one of pure and holy compassion.
He stood gazing at it a good while, a new expression dawning in his eyes.
She took it all naturally, as she had taken every expression of his love these nine-and-twenty years.
What facility of expression your husband has, Mrs. Halifax!
This proverbial expression very clearly shews that the writings of the Greek fabulist, or at least of those who had followed him, were known to the Normans from the eleventh century.
