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
I answered; but I was a little out of countenance.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
I had heard of looking wild animals out of countenance, and determined to try the experiment, before resorting to any other decisive measures.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
If he was detected he was never put out of countenance, but evaded the matter with a jest, which he had always at hand.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Fat, ungainly penguins, sitting in white rows, like surpliced choirs, on the shallow shore, would scuttle further back along the mud flat, and taking up attitudes of doubtful interrogation would stare us out of countenance.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
