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How to use countenances in a sentence

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Many faces appear and I try and commensurate local architecture with countenances.
He inwardly grinned along with Elizabeth, but both of them kept impassive countenances in front of their son.
It was the perfect damsel-in-distress expression, she'd seen executed on the countenances of several ladies.
Jean just let a small smile escape her visage, and then turned her countenances back in to a frustrated manner.
The benevolent dwarf countenances were gone, and they all looked like pygmy monsters out of an old horror movie.
Several portraits feature beautiful faces, some with deeply lined, wizened countenances.
A quick glance at some of the figures, ironically, and several of the figures seem to resemble one another, with their pointed headdresses and bug-eyed countenances.
Hard, fearful looks crowned their countenances as they gazed upon us.
Another British soldier stopped dead in his tracks and looked across the street at the four children, their smiles rapidly fading with guilty countenances replacing them.
Her intense awareness of the camera's abilities is registered in every detail of her pictures, in the precision of their compositions, and in the countenances of her subjects.
It countenances instances of true disjunctions neither of whose disjuncts is true.
We renounce them altogether.…Any system that countenances abstract entities we deem unsatisfactory as a final philosophy.
Their frank countenances showed their belief in a good and neighbourly world.
Their countenances were pale and marked with deep anxiety, expressive of their internal struggle.
By living our encounter with our Lord Jesus Christ, incarnated in history and clearly manifest in our brothers and sisters countenances.
And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
They are the only ones among the Huns who have white bodies and countenances which are not ugly.
The countenances of the captains told different stories here.
Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.
O that unholiday look of English countenances, how sad it is!
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was evident from their countenances that the soldiers were awe-stricken.
He gave one look at the fixer and at the gaping countenances all about him.
The Inspector looked his amazement, and the others sat with receptively blank countenances waiting further disclosures.
Every place they visited they received the same reply, so they turned back to Hopkinsville with dejected countenances.
In fact the Advaita philosophy countenances emotional theism only as an imperfect creed and not as the highest truth.
A propinquity, if I might judge from their countenances, uncoveted by either party.
Consternation showed on the face of Professor Bumper, and was reflected, more or less, on the countenances of his companions.
Sometimes, as Grandfather gazed at their fair, unworldly countenances, a mist of tears bedimmed his spectacles.
On either side walked a giant white man, heavy blonde beards almost obliterating their countenances.
Their countenances are for the most inflexible, stern and immovable.
Upon this, the HURGO and his train withdrew, with much civility and cheerful countenances.
Their fears vanished and tranquility returned to their countenances.
But the clerks were not the dupes of this deceit, and their lugubrious looks settled down into resigned countenances.
The old ancestral portraits, whose fixed countenances looked down on the wild scene, were rent from the walls.
They bore upon their countenances and in their vestments the traces of the heartaches they had undergone.
Here he stood for some time, muffled up in his robe, peering over the shoulders of the players, watching the changes of their countenances and the fluctuations of the game.
Their smudged countenances now expressed a profound dejection.
His companions stood looking on with vacuous grins upon their countenances, while he from whom the girl had wrested the weapon leaped up and down shrieking with laughter.
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