They were in very sharp contrast to the long-visaged clerical gentlemen who were so much in evidence at Tampa, and who never got within 500 miles of danger. ❋ John Henry Parker (N/A)
They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasing aspect, having no one graceful feature in their faces. ❋ Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne (N/A)
Look at plants that grow without sun, -- wan, pale, long-visaged, holding feeble, imploring hands of supplication towards the light. ❋ Various (N/A)
The face of the _blasé_ theatre-goer shines when his play is announced for the evening; and even the long-visaged critic, fond of talking of the _décadence_ of the modern stage, has been known to appear punctually in his seat when Tom Taylor's play was to lead off the performance. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Oh, dear me -- no, no!" sighed the long-visaged person. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
A melancholy group they were, sallow-faced, long-visaged and dolorous, partly from the effects of a long course of study and partly from their present trepidation. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasant aspect, having not one graceful feature in their faces. ❋ Ernest Favenc (1876)
No doubt the reader imagines that the man of such a career was an old stager -- some long-visaged, parchment-faced fellow the other side of forty at least. ❋ Unknown (1870)
In less than half-an-hour after they were uttered a long-visaged Yankee, in a straw hat, nankeen trousers, and fisherman's boots, came to the spot where they were at work, and seated himself on the trunk of a tree hard by to watch their proceedings. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Letting down five mouldering bars — so moistly green, they seemed fished up from some sunken wreck — a wigged old Aries, long-visaged, and with crumpled horn, came snuffing up; and then, retreating, decorously led on along a milky-way of white-weed, past dim-clustering Pleiades and ❋ Unknown (1856)
As a rule they were long-visaged, not a few were unkempt, and many were downright seedy in wearing apparel. ❋ Unknown (1856)
So far as she could judge, they were pale, hollow-eyed, and long-visaged, very thin and emaciated. ❋ Cornelius Mathews (1853)
She was a long-visaged, long-toothed being, with pale eyes in a pale face, and an unvarying expression partly of sadness, partly of anxious alarm. ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)
"Nay, they should not be compared," replied Mabel: "the one is stout and burly; the other slight, long-visaged, and pale, but handsome withal -- very handsome." ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)
All sorts of long-visaged prophets had told me that they were dull, stolid, slow, and I don't know what more that is disagreeable. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
But, my lord, in the midst of these enthusiastic reveries, a long-visaged, dry moral-looking phantom strides across my imagination, and pronounces these emphatic words: -- ❋ Robert Burns (1777)
I have been all my life, Sir, one of the rueful-looking, long-visaged sons of disappointment. ❋ Robert Burns (1777)
But, my lord, in the midst of these enthusiastic reveries, a long-visaged, dry, moral-looking phantom strides across my imagination, and pronounces these emphatic words: -- ❋ Robert Burns (1777)
That, as long-visaged as she may then be thought, upon their ❋ Joseph Addison (1695)
