Citations:expression

English citations of expression

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• 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:

  That, and its livid colour, made it horrible; but its horror seemed to be in spite of the face and beyond its control, rather than a part of its own expression.

  There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.

• 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

  Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.

• 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:

  At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.