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stacking his compliments a trifle too high, and sees by the young lady's countenance that the edifice would have been better with the top compliment left...

into the wasteland, she needs to be a changed woman, and maybe her grief needs to give way to something harder." This led to the scene being reshot. The...

countenance, and blandishments." A few centuries after Frederick II's alleged experiment, James IV of Scotland was said to have sent two children to be...

something persistently fox-like about it (i.e. a foxy face, a set of ears, or the tell-tale nine tails) or a magical way of forcing; its countenance changes...

monkey [that] crept on all fours ... a most extraordinary and weird countenance. It was (apparently) that of a woman of great age, so shrunken that in...

reason.com. June 11, 2016. "Mandatory minimum drives US District Judge to countenance arguments for jury nullification in federal child porn case". entencing...

Welsh sources), meaning "a wanderer of pallid countenance", which was originally applied as an epithet to the famous prototype of Merlin, a prophetic wild...

his hog-like eyes would gleam with a sullen ferocity worthy of the countenance of a fiend ... Terrible stories were circulated in camp of horrid crimes...

Siam to tutor his many children. Anna's young son, Louis, fears the severe countenance of the King's prime minister, the Kralahome, but Anna refuses to be...

Reverence to his Person, burst out into an unmannerly Laughter: However, having asked his Pardon, and with much ado composed my Countenance, I promised...

Bellelli's countenance is dignified and austere, her gesture connected with those of her daughters. Her husband, by contrast, appears to be separated...

It tells of a "tall woman dressed in green", with a "withered, meagre countenance, ever distorted by a malignant scowl", who overpowered and drowned a...

Orthodox and Organized Judaism don't countenance the veneration of saints per se, veneration and pilgrimage to burial sites of holy Jewish leaders is...

with a Jewish—or is it an Indian?—cast of countenance, holding a tiny Oriental lamp, which serves dimly to light the canvas. Mosby, Dewey F. (1991). Henry...

Adonai make His countenance shine upon you, and be gracious to you; May Adonai turn His countenance to you and grant you peace. This seems to be one of the...

presented in the marble the divinity with which God had endowed that holy countenance. The draperies fall in graceful folds, the muscles of the arms and bones...

the most extravagant jests to disorder her countenance with the ruffle of a smile [but] very rarely takes the freedom to sink her cheek into a dimple"...

Percival charges Jung with excessive determinism and writes: "He could not countenance the possibility that people sometimes create ideas that cannot be predicted...

Earl of Clarendon, (1727) Religion and Policy, and the Countenance and Assistance each should give to the other, with a Survey of the Power and Jurisdiction...

distinguishing out, for example, the "fleering frump ... when we give a mock with a scornful countenance as in some smiling sort looking aside or by drawing the...