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The dogs got nothing, though they watched with wistful mien from a distance, sitting up in the snow, their tails curled around their paws. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IV] Reference
Obsolete form of "mien": air, bearing, carriage or manner, as expressing character or mood; appearance; expression. From Wordnik.com. [Annotations] Reference
She commanded, with firm voice and unfaltering mien. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
"From his aristocratic mien and premature baldness," says. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
At the same moment the Burgomaster appears with stern mien. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
In hushed secrecy Truth is muffled beneath distracting mien. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
He was depressed in mien though always well-bred in bearing. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
And with grave and dignified mien, the Arab responded kindly. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
All her clothes were sober and respectable, and her whole mien. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Walky Dexter, with very serious mien, came slowly back to the dock. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
There was an intellectual grandeur in her look and mien that was impressive. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
He was a charming little boy of five or six years, of a graceful and proud mien. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is "breathing life", and has a typically Californian face slash "amiable mien". From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
A fair mien should I show to each; but Love does not bid me to be a true love to every man. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
On seeing a stranger of such dignified mien approaching, he rose up and went to welcome him. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Within the Agency, FitzGerald, of St. Mark's and Harvard, was known for his aristocratic mien. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Cover-Up] Reference
There is an air of offended dignity in her mien, as she looks the couple up and down freezingly. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
The third confidant was an older man of sad mien who would have passed easily in the swankest of. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Man] Reference
Not many girls of her age could have set off finally with Mr. Day for the town with so quiet a mien. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
He relates the legend of the water-fairy, who with sweet voice and mien entices and seduces human beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Just now a woman of peculiar mien stood before me -- a woman skilled, she told me, in the mysteries of fate. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Imperceptibly the monarch's mien relaxed, for next to a contest with blades he liked the quick play of words. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The two looked at each other for a moment, and then Margaret turned away with the mien of an insulted princess. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
A great shout went up from the multitude; a man of sober mien was brought into the arena armed with a dagger only. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Was I rising in their esteem, or did they think to frighten me into obedience by the grandeur of his majestic mien?. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Five or six men of distinguished mien and elegant appearance, with stars and orders upon their breasts, were grouped round. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
And as the stranger moved slowly away with downcast head and thoughtful mien, Chios felt as if a thick darkness surrounded him. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
What in others would have concluded in a vacant mien and colorless repose, in him expressed all that he was so sedulous to conceal. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
With pale face and composed mien she kept by his side; her resolute expression reassured him, while her glance said: "Do not fear for me.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
To this end she decks herself with dashing finery and tawdry trappings, and with bold, unwomanly mien essays the streets of the great city. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
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