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«Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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beam, complacency, countenances, distasteful, married couple
«It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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countenance, countenanced, countenances, exercises, opens, softened, softening, softens, temper, washes, wash away
«Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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command, countenance, countenanced, countenances, easily, real person, sentiments, speaking, The Face, The Face of
«A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
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Gifts
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countenance, countenanced, countenances, double
«First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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cost, countenance, countenanced, countenances, First hand, First Impressions, impressions, infrequently, nay, nays, plausible, professions, rid, rid of, stamped, studied, the Hand, truest, wheedle, wheedled, wheedling
«Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.»
Author: Bible
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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.»
«Iron sharpeneth iron; so man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.»
«Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
costing, costs, counsel, counseled, counseling, countenance, countenanced, countenances, courtesies, courtesy, niggardly, Thee
«Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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animals, broad, broadest, broads, countenance, countenanced, countenances, diffident, expression, faced, flowers, hollyhock, hollyhocks, honest, much as, pensive, plain, sad, sunflower, sunflowers, upright
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