| The slaves laughed and clapped their hands, so that my brother was quite out of countenance. |
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| Let death itself stare him in the face, he will presumptuously maintain his hope, as if he would look the grim messenger out of countenance. |
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| But when the men appear who ask our votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance. |
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| The fox was too wily to be put out of countenance by even such a surprise as this. |
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| Don Quixote, covered with shame and out of countenance, ran to pluck the plume from his poor jade's tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. |
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| Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, and make a seeming impossibility give way. |
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| Never had I seen the man so put out of countenance and so disturbed. |
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| Our people, who discovered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of countenance. |
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| He claimed to have chipped bits off the very outcrop of the California Rand, without finding it worth while to bring away, but none of these things put him out of countenance. |
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| Implicit here is the tendency to make folly ridiculous, to laugh it out of countenance, which has always been a prominent feature of comedy. |
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| In truth, Grandma was out of countenance in the face of sloppy decorating, and some family members greeted the season of midnight embellishing with a slightly heavy heart. |
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| The mind, he affirms, directs the laughter of comedy, and civilization is founded in common sense, which equips one to hear the comic spirit when it laughs folly out of countenance and to participate in its fellowship. |
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| They take their little enjoyments on little means and with little things and don't let solemn big-wigs stare them out of countenance or speechify them dull. |
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