COUNTENANCE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Mr. Rochester, reading my countenance, saw I had done so.
2 She had, I thought, a remarkable countenance, instinct both with power and goodness.
3 It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case.
4 He was silent after I had uttered the last sentence, and I presently risked an upward glance at his countenance.
5 Whether he was incensed or surprised, or what, it was not easy to tell: he could command his countenance thoroughly.
6 I sought in her countenance and features a likeness to Mr. Rochester, but found none: no trait, no turn of expression announced relationship.
7 They were stiff with their long and jolting drive from Whitcross, and chilled with the frosty night air; but their pleasant countenances expanded to the cheerful firelight.
8 The first was a tall lady with dark hair, dark eyes, and a pale and large forehead; her figure was partly enveloped in a shawl, her countenance was grave, her bearing erect.
9 Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance.
10 Miss Miller was more ordinary; ruddy in complexion, though of a careworn countenance; hurried in gait and action, like one who had always a multiplicity of tasks on hand: she looked, indeed, what I afterwards found she really was, an under-teacher.