COUNTENANCE in Classic Quotes

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1  They really put me quite out of countenance.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
2  Catherine heard all this, and quite out of countenance, could listen no longer.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
3  I tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself, but you and John must keep us in countenance.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
4  He seemed to be looking in her countenance for that explanation which her lips did not afford.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24
5  Isabella's countenance was once more all smiles and good humour, and James too looked happy again.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  Eleanor's countenance was dejected, yet sedate; and its composure spoke her inured to all the gloomy objects to which they were advancing.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24
7  He seemed to be about four or five and twenty, was rather tall, had a pleasing countenance, a very intelligent and lively eye, and, if not quite handsome, was very near it.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
8  Miss Tilney had a good figure, a pretty face, and a very agreeable countenance; and her air, though it had not all the decided pretension, the resolute stylishness of Miss Thorpe's, had more real elegance.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
9  She looked at him with great admiration, and even supposed it possible that some people might think him handsomer than his brother, though, in her eyes, his air was more assuming, and his countenance less prepossessing.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
10  Catherine had never heard Mrs. Tilney mentioned in the family before, and the interest excited by this tender remembrance showed itself directly in her altered countenance, and in the attentive pause with which she waited for something more.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
11  Already had he discerned a liking towards Miss Morland in the countenance of his son; and thankful for Mr. Thorpe's communication, he almost instantly determined to spare no pains in weakening his boasted interest and ruining his dearest hopes.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30
12  Catherine had not read three lines before her sudden change of countenance, and short exclamations of sorrowing wonder, declared her to be receiving unpleasant news; and Henry, earnestly watching her through the whole letter, saw plainly that it ended no better than it began.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
13  And Eleanor, with a command of countenance which did honour to her concern for his character, taking an early occasion of saying to her, "My father only wanted me to answer a note," she began to hope that she had either been unseen by the general, or that from some consideration of policy she should be allowed to suppose herself so.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24