Gloomy-visaged funeral directors. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Grim-visaged messengers of death: the watchful sentry's tread. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
And they charged upon that bunting, guarded by grim-visaged Death. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
That yellow-visaged man jumped up from behind his desk, stammering. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
I threw open the door, and there stood the keen-eyed, angry-visaged. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
Inquisitors -- the deep, dark-visaged men whom the matchless pencil of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
"Even in the fair the pictures will pursue you!" said the stern-visaged. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
"And a very good thing too," said the purple-visaged dowager wrathfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
It was Miss Arsdale, and opposite her sat a tall, thin-visaged young man. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
"Here's Mr. Kane now!" cried Nan, halting before the grim-visaged horseman. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
A hard-visaged warrior leaned forward in his chair, and shook his head slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
Like the people already described, they are short in stature, and dark visaged. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Even now my heart fails within me when I recur to this rout of grim-visaged ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Now think, when war, grim-visaged and terrible, spreads its mighty power over the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
"The front of grim-visaged war" was constantly being smoothed into beauty by baby fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
Oh, Bobby, the thought of marrying that sour-visaged cousin of mine makes me ill, even now!. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
There was a one-eyed, ugly visaged fellow sitting off in a corner of the room, who remarked. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
And buoyed with the recollection of grim-visaged angular Mary, who hid a very tender heart beneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
They returned matured, grim-visaged men who had formed a companionship and a comradeship with death. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
Could he persuade that cynical-visaged individual to trust him until he received his first week's pay?. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
A mild-visaged woman responded and surveyed the travel-stained children with something like compassion. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
Below the dais on either hand two fierce-visaged Marathas stood, their heads and shoulders covered with. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
"England!" exclaimed this ebony-visaged worshipper of the Beaux Arts, as he displayed the volume before me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
If the ugly-visaged poet should enter without this preliminary explanation, the whole effect would be lost. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
"Half the books in this library are not worth reading," said a sour-visaged, hypercritical, novel-satiated woman. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
"Helvetius would tell you that all this was self-interest," was my pale-visaged and contemplative friend's reply. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
War had, if ever, laid aside its darker draperies, and "grim-visaged" as it is, had smoothed its "wrinkled front.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
In the fore was a giant of a man in his late middle years, and at his side a cold-visaged duplicate of him, obviously. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
In less than a week everybody is played out; everybody, that is, except a lymphatic, dull-visaged backwoodsman, named. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He was followed by a sallow-visaged, black-bearded speaker, who poured forth abundant venomous froth of denunciation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
The old philosopher, with that corkscrew mind of his, knew well enough what was amiss with the poor lank-visaged curate. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
The darky soon returned with the heavy, ugly-visaged black who had been whipped, by Madam P---- 's order, the day before. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
All eyes shifted from where Terry stood on the chair to the stern visaged Macabebe sergeant who had stopped in the open doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
Possibly the old man, whom everybody called "the General," and who many feared could not live out his term, or the solemn-visaged. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
After all, the epistle was, doubtless, destined for some swarthy-visaged Italian beauty, and many such were in the convent school. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The lumbering figure of the black-visaged Marquis at one side of the table talking at large to the House, but with his eye fixed on. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891] Reference
Look at plants that grow without sun, -- wan, pale, long-visaged, holding feeble, imploring hands of supplication towards the light. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
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