countenance
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Once upon a time, this aged collective creature, this Knight of the Sad Countenance, was supposed to be our savior, the slayer of the horrible monster.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2017
One was a proud, polite horse chosen to carry Feodor Chaliapin, chivalric Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Don Quixote, very lean and egotistic and honest and foolish; a veritable Knight of the Woeful Countenance ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Countenance cast down — yet defying Answer — he whispered: “I have never even dwellt inside myself.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Countenance, kown′ten-ans, n. the face: the expression of the face: appearance.—v.t. to favour or approve.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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