countenance Quotes

“but he looked better when he was animated; that is his everyday countenance: he wanted spirit in general.”

“Nelly, will you keep a secret for me?” she pursued, kneeling down by me, and lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it.

I notice, when I enter his presence, the muscles of his countenance are involuntarily distorted into an expression of hatred;

I do not know whether it was sorrow for him, but his cousin put on as sad a countenance as himself, and returned to her father.

“Yes, I do. Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time more than all the rest of the world put together.”