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Example sentences for "her countenance"

  • But her mother did not observe the falling of her countenance, nor yet the incomplete sentence.

  • It seemed as though she recognised her father, for a look of surprise came to her countenance.

  • It is her countenance that is so attractive.

  • Fanny, not liking to complain, found it easiest to make no answer; and though he looked at her with his usual kindness, she believed he had soon ceased to think of her countenance.

  • Now and then she moaned; but when Margaret looked at her, she saw the smile still upon her countenance.

  • The sound of her voice drew Hugh's eyes upon her: he was astonished at the alteration in her countenance.

  • Miette was thirteen years of age, and although strong and sturdy did not look any older, so bright and childish was the smile which lit up her countenance.

  • Enthusiastic child that she was, her countenance, with its curly hair, large eyes moist with tears, and lips parted in a smile, seemed to rise with energetic pride as she turned it towards the sky.

  • She sat silent, quite unable to look him in the face, while he kept his place in his arm-chair, lounging back, with his eyes intent on her countenance.

  • Felix looked at her as she said this, and thought that he saw more in her countenance than he had ever read there before.

  • She was a little thing, hardly over twenty years of age, very unlike her father or mother, having no trace of the Jewess in her countenance, who seemed to be overwhelmed by the sense of her own position.

  • But she had in her countenance a full measure of that sweetness of expression which seems to imply that consideration of self is subordinated to consideration for others.

  • Katherine waited not to hear the close of this sentence, but walked to a distant part of the room to conceal the burning blushes that covered her countenance.

  • She roused herself up, and with more animation than Dame Tremblay had yet seen in her countenance, requested her to send up the visitor, that she might ask her a question.

  • Her countenance changed to a mask of ugliness, wonderful in one by nature so fair to see.

  • Her countenance bore, when she was alone, an expression of malignity which made Fanchon shudder.

  • My modest demonstration kindled a little merry smile on her countenance; I thought her almost charming.

  • Gradually, but without my being able to distinguish the gradations, her countenance altered to that of one who sleeps.

  • Her eyes were yet undimmed by years, and little change had passed upon her countenance since I parted with her on that memorable night.

  • There was something automatical in her movements; and a sort of frozen indifference was the prevailing expression of her countenance.

  • There is something quite captivating in Lady Longford's voice and manners, and the extreme vivacity of her countenance, and her quick change of feelings interested me particularly: I never saw a woman so little spoiled by the world.

  • She is very timid, and never once raised her eyes, so that our correspondent cannot speak decidedly as to the expression of her countenance, but if we may be allowed to say so, she is not a beauty, and is very low.

  • When I told her of the letter, her countenance changed to a death-like paleness which instantly attracted my notice.

  • I fancied there was something like distress apparent in her countenance.

  • There was an expression of anxiety in her countenance, which, amid all her previous sufferings, I had never seen there before.

  • Her countenance, with surprising mobility, had recovered its gracious expression; but some little red spots on her handkerchief indicated that she had bitten her lips till the blood came.

  • Milady was so beautiful at this moment, the religious ecstasy in which she appeared to be plunged gave such an expression to her countenance, that Felton was so dazzled that he fancied he beheld the angel whom he had only just before heard.

  • D'Artagnan himself was frightened by the change in her countenance.

  • Milady looked at the officer with one of those terrible expressions peculiar to her countenance, and which so rarely failed of their effect; anger made her eyes flash in the darkness.

  • An expression of infernal joy, hardly concealed beneath a semblance of extreme indignation, was visible in her countenance.

  • Her countenance, which had been for some moments expressive of anxiety and rage, brightened up on the instant.

  • But if any one dared to wound or ruffle her pride, gainsay her orders or harm her interests, her countenance, usually placid and serene, betrayed a cold but implacable malignity.

  • The paleness of her complexion, and the careworn, anxious lines of her countenance, were ascribed by the vulgar to studies of no holy cast.

  • He did not distinguish the expression of her countenance, but an ominous thrill passed through his heart; for the attitude itself had an expression, and not that of a sister's sympathy and love.

  • He tottered as he crossed the hall; grief and physical exhaustion had unmanned him; his eyes were streaming with tears; he paused for a moment with his hand upon the door; he dreaded the anguish of her countenance.

  • And yet there was really an expression on her countenance of restlessness, not to say anxiety, which ill accorded with the dulcet tones and the wreathed smiles which charmed her august companions.

  • Myra said little during the journey, but an expression of ineffable contempt and disgust seemed permanent on her countenance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    excellent quality; her appearance; her beautiful; her beauty; her book; her brother; her duty; her for; her grandfather; her hair; her ladyship; her mind; her nephew; her now; her own; her own free will; her parents; her person; her self; her sex; her shoulders; hereditary descent; hereditary monarch; hereditary taint; heroic deeds; heroic poetry