out of countenance
Example Sentences
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“Yes, Jo, I think your harvest will be a good one,” began Mrs. March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
He winced at last, and was even a trifle out of countenance.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
On her guard as she was, the word put her out of countenance.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.
"Humph!" said the old lady; "the sight of a real tiger would not put me out of countenance with my own."
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
The vast majority of fathers feel dismally constrained, indeed, and out of countenance in the presence of their girls—so smart and sophisticated, so superior, critical and self-sufficing are our latter-day school and college-maidens.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
