Chickenpoet looks like a mermaid as she scoops the minnow net, serenity emanating from her contenance while she sits in the shallow breakers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Burgundian poet Martin le Franc (c.1441) and theorist Tinctoris who worked at Naples (c.1475) were aware that with Dunstable, Dufay and Binchois a new musical era had begun and that the new sound, the frisque concordance from England, had given Continental music a contenance angloise. ❋ Lu (2009)
Winter blooms, colorful foliage and a sweet contenance are the reason Faire Garden is still on the search for more to add to the vision. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Do you think one of the worlds three superpowers would contenance an invasion on their border? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
And than entrethe that other secunde thousand, and dothe right so, in the same manere of array and contenance, as did the firste; and aftre the thridde, and than the fourthe; and non of hem seythe not o word. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was about fifty-years old, but with a closely shaven face, a healthy complexion, a relatively clear eye, he had a cheeful contenance. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (2002)
-- Quelle gravité dans la contenance des membres! quelle simplicité dans leurs discours! quelle candeur dans leurs discussions! quelle bienfaisance! quelle énergie dans leur résolution! ❋ Various (N/A)
The said Maister George spaced up and doune behynd the hie altar more then half ane houre: his verray contenance and visage declared the greaf and alteratioun of his mynd. ❋ John Knox (N/A)
These thingis understand by the said Alexander, alsweall by informatioun of his freindis and familliaris, as by the strange contenance of the King unto him, provydit the nixt way to avoid the fury of a blynded Prince: and so, in his habite, [104] hie departed the realme, [105] and cuming to ❋ John Knox (N/A)
Thei war nothing content, (as thei had no cause,) and yitt thei maid fayr contenance, and entreated the gentilmen to tack a drynk, and to bate thare horse, till that thei mycht putt thame selves in redynes to ryd with thame. ❋ John Knox (N/A)
Covering his own dashed contenance with a semblance of unruffled amiability, he bowed again, now over the hand which the girl tentatively offered, letting it rest lightly on his fingers, touching it as lightly with his lips. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
This done, they laid aside their garments, piling them in a great heap in the market - place, and so marched forth from the town, each clad in his shirt only, but with a most cheerful contenance. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)
Note: [40] The title of this curious old poem is as follows: -- ` C'est le dit du Gieu des Dez fait par Eustace, et la manière et contenance des Joueurs qui etoient à Néele, où etoient Messeigneurs de Berry, de Bourgogne, et plusieurs autres. ' ❋ Unknown (1870)
Tall of stature, broad "shouldered," an open contenance, and steady eye, he is just the man to draw forth from passers-by the interrogatory, Who is he? ❋ Benjamin Tucker (1867)
François, pleins de courage, soutenus par les sauvages, quoiqu'ils n'eussent point d'artillerie, firent à leur tour plier les Anglois qui se battirent en ordre de bataille et en bonne contenance. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)
Monseigneur, qu'excitant de la voix et du geste le peu de soldats qui restait, je m'avançai avec la contenance qui donne le désespoir. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)
As an illustration of the remarkable effects of education in altering the features of Man, and entirely changing the expression of his contenance, we have one circumstance on record which is very conclusive. ❋ Unknown (1848)
That child with whom you are so fondly playing -- whose happy and smiling (sic) contenance might serve for the representation of a cherub, and whose merry laugh rings joyously and free -- yes! that blooming child, notwithstanding all these pleasing and attractive smiles, has a heart prone to evil. ❋ Unknown (1847)
Motionless sits he; 'astonished,' one may flatter oneself, 'at the proud bearing (fiere contenance) of the Parisians.' ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
