PHYSIOGNOMY in a Sentence

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The only thing which was clearly to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange indecision.

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 Meanings and Examples of PHYSIOGNOMY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
physiognomy
 n.  the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  This physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and ended by seeming severe.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  The only thing which was clearly to be inferred from his attitude and his physiognomy was a strange indecision.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  It is of the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is composed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
4  Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
5  Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
6  His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and startling.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
7  We mention the fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the reader's mind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
8  His defects and his vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy was of the kind which succeeds with an observer.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
9  It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet sombre physiognomy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
10  Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load had its own physiognomy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
11  Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of the rebellious quarters.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
12  The host, who was not endowed with great perspicacity, did not observe the expression which his words had given to the physiognomy of the stranger.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
13  D'Artagnan, a little recovered from his first surprise, had now leisure to study costumes and physiognomy.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
14  Krempe a great deal of sound sense and real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account the less valuable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  This address caused a considerable change in the physiognomy of my own auditor.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
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