Edward, whom he did not seem to observe, now perceived confirmation in his features of what the mien and gestures had already announced.
A young man, wearing his own fair hair, distinguished by the dignity of his mien and the noble expression of his well-formed and regular features, advanced out of a circle of military gentlemen and Highland chiefs, by whom he was surrounded.
To support his authority British bayonets overawed the capital of the Punjab, and assumed the mien of those who hold their place by right of conquest.
Every honour was paid to it, and the assembled crowds, though preserving the impassive mien of Asiatics on such occasions, respectfully saluted the British officers as they passed along.
But in spite of this, every one shuddered when they looked at him, for his mien was like that of a snake, sly and venomous.
This made the benevolent Schachtgeist intensely angry; he became fierce and savage, and when he appeared at the entrance of the mine hismien foreboded anything but good.
Her tone and mien signified beyond mistake that the seed which was to lift the foundation had taken root in the chink: the remainder was a mere question of time and natural changes.
Here favoring Nature, oft remiss, With eagle mien expressive has endued A man to kindle strains that warm.
His mienwas distinguished, and at the same time dignified.
Mr. Barrowe has a very kind heart," here asserted Mrs. Dares, with tone and mien at their gentlest and sweetest.
That's the way children are made," Johan finally announced with a mien of having transmitted the ultimate wisdom of the ages.
As always on such occasions, Keith took his cue from the mother, and her mien told him that he ought to be pleased.
Colley attributes the formal gravity of Kynaston's mien "to the stately step he had been so early confined to in a female decency.
His person was matched by his attire, which was that of an Eastern warrior noble, and his mien was proud and conquering.
He had retained the lofty mien of a musketeer, but his features had been ravaged by anxiety, and his hair was white, though he was only forty-four years of age.
With sorrowful mien Mathieu continued reflecting, unable to make up his mind to utterly abandon the young man.
And once more he put on the mien of a superior, victorious man, one who is certain that he will win all the battles of life.
He, a handsome fellow, fair and square shouldered, had the gallant mien of a musketeer with his streaming moustache.
The caliph then: "No features fair, No comely mien are his; Love is the beauty he doth wear; And love his glory is.
With ill-disguised alarm Chosroes turned his look on the face of the Zarathustrotema, whose mien betrayed evidence of anxiety.
Like a sea of lightning, the radiant vanguard swept adown the terrace with a mien so dreadful and weapons so deterring that the black divisions fled in horror before the blasting might that shook the deeps to the foundation.
Othman's eyes were riveted on the countenance of the enthusiastic youth, but his mien betrayed not the displeasure of his faithless heart.
Blackbeard's mien was a shade less ferocious as he cried: "Gold?
Yes, there was the tall, gaunt frame and gray head of old Trimble Rogers whose mien was so forbidding and masterful that the mob forbore to handle him too roughly, unarmed though he was.
The second Sunday following Belle-Ann's arrival at the school, Miss Worth presented to her an elderly gentleman of distinguished mien and marked personality, and of whom the girl was destined to see much thereafter.
Her mysterious mien and unaccountable frigidity drove the chill of another fear into his being.
He suffered the trapper to draw nigh, maintaining by his own mien and attitude a striking air of dignity and fearlessness.
But the mien of Mahtoree was far less stern and warlike than that of the partisan of the Loups.
Here he stood, observing such a silence and mienas became him to manifest, to a chief so renowned and so situated as his captive associate.
This very steadiness of mien was a thousand times more alarming and hopeless than any violence could have proved.
When he had thrown the gauntlet, as it were, to the whole tribe, and sufficiently asserted his claim to superiority, his mien became more affable and his eye less angry.
Her cheeks were flushed and angry, and her whole mien was distinguished by an air of spirit and resentment, that was not a little, however, qualified by apprehensions for the future.
His mien and his air Were those of one all unaccustomed to care.
So the faithful servant left Bertram, and instantly the master's serene mien changed, and assumed a look of great anxiety.
Bolamah, who had so long been distinguished for his high breeding, could not allow such a magnificent lady, like a queen in her mien and dress, to pass him without the ordinary expressions of politeness.
He stood fire bravely, for his mien of easy composure did not vary by so much as the nervous twitch of a muscle; his attitude was one of serious attention; his eyes did not leave the picture.
Mr. Warren ascended the steps of the piazza with a mien as unaltered, and an air as undisturbed, as if about to enter his own church.
The tempered sadness of her mien gave an exquisite finish to her beauty, rendering all she said, did, and looked, that morning, perfect.
Of gentle mien and shape, she seems For civil halls design'd; Yet with the stately savage walks, As she were of his kind.
A slow smile crept over the lawyer's mien as he made an excuse for silence out of the important task of scrubbing his eye-glasses.
Her beauty was enriched by her costume and her mien was ripened by experience, but she was unforgetably herself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mien" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
