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Tarvin remounted hastily, and galloped up, revolver in hand, to cover the blanched visage of Juggut Singh.
"Eh, monsieur!" said he, addressing d’Artagnan, "don’t you remember that face which is blinking yonder?""No," said d’Artagnan, "and yet I am certain it is not the first time I have seen that visage."
Such a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches, than of pease and pulse.
The scars with which his visage was seamed, would, on features of a different cast, have excited the sympathy and veneration due to the marks of honourable valour; but, in the peculiar case of Front-de-Boeuf, they only added to the ferocity of his countenance, and to the dread which his presence inspired.
There she stands to avouch it--Nay, blush not, kinswoman, there is no shame in loving a courtly knight better than a country franklin--and do not laugh neither, Rowena, for grave-clothes and a thin visage are, God knows, no matter of merriment--Nay, an thou wilt needs laugh, I will find thee a better jest--Give me thy hand, or rather lend it me, for I but ask it in the way of friendship.--Here,
No one ventured to gainsay the missionary, whose excited tone contrasted curiously with his naturally calm visage.
Passepartout's visage darkened with the skies, and for two days the poor fellow experienced constant fright.
John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.
This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.
Soon I had traced on the paper a broad and prominent forehead and a square lower outline of visage: that contour gave me pleasure; my fingers proceeded actively to fill it with features.
At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass."
I was aware her lurid visage flamed over mine, and I lost consciousness: for the second time in my life--only the second time--I became insensible from terror."
The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors.
When I think of the thing which flew at my throat this morning, hanging its black and scarlet visage over the nest of my dove, my blood curdles--""And what, sir," I asked, while he paused, "did you do when you had settled her here?
Diana and Mary relieved me by turning their eyes elsewhere than to my crimsoned visage; but the colder and sterner brother continued to gaze, till the trouble he had excited forced out tears as well as colour.
Don't you think so, Jane?""It is a pity to see it; and a pity to see your eyes--and the scar of fire on your forehead: and the worst of it is, one is in danger of loving you too well for all this; and making too much of you.""I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage."
Master Coppenole himself applauded, and Clopin Trouillefou, who had been among the competitors (and God knows what intensity of ugliness his visage could attain), confessed himself conquered: We will do the same.
It was the formidable visage of Quasimodo.
Hence Quasimodo's gratitude was profound, passionate, boundless; and although the visage of his adopted father was often clouded or severe, although his speech was habitually curt, harsh, imperious, that gratitude never wavered for a single moment.
At the moment when she looked in, a profound pity was depicted on all her features, and her frank, gay visage altered its expression and color as abruptly as though it had passed from a ray of sunlight to a ray of moonlight; her eye became humid; her mouth contracted, like that of a person on the point of weeping.
But wrath, hatred, despair, slowly lowered over that hideous visage a cloud which grew ever more and more sombre, ever more and more charged with electricity, which burst forth in a thousand lightning flashes from the eye of the cyclops.
As far away as he could see that mule and that priest, the poor victim's visage grew gentler.
Then, from that eye which had been, up to that moment, so dry and burning, a big tear was seen to fall, and roll slowly down that deformed visage so long contracted with despair.
Dom Claude's visage had resumed its severe expression.
At this audacious declaration, the archdeacon's visage assumed a thoroughly pedagogical and paternal expression.
It was the sinister visage which had so long pursued her; that demon's head which had appeared at la Falourdel's, above the head of her adored Phoebus; that eye which she last had seen glittering beside a dagger.
No one had yet observed in the gallery of the statues of the kings, carved directly above the arches of the portal, a strange spectator, who had, up to that time, observed everything with such impassiveness, with a neck so strained, a visage so hideous that, in his motley accoutrement of red and violet, he might have been taken for one of those stone monsters through whose mouths the long gutters of the cathedral have discharged their waters for six hundred years.
At the first glance one read arrogance on his visage; at the second, craft.
It is the only change which ever takes place in a courtier's visage.
Au milieu d’un gros visage s’élevait fort peu un tout petit nez presque féminin.
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