physiognomist

[Headnote 1: LA VA 'TER, (John Gaspar,) a celebrated physiognomist, that is, one skilled in the art of determining character by the external features, born in Zurich, in 1741.]

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

Thenardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist.

Les Miserables 2008

“Ay,” answered Hayraddin, “it required neither astrologer, or physiognomist, nor chiromantist to foretell that I should follow the destiny of my family.”

Quentin Durward 2008

One feature only commended this face to the physiognomist.

The Commission in Lunacy 2007

There was the fat boy, perfectly motionless, with his large circular eyes staring into the arbour, but without the slightest expression on his face that the most expert physiognomist could have referred to astonishment, curiosity, or any other known passion that agitates the human breast.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

One feature only commended this face to the physiognomist.

The Commission in Lunacy 2007

The landlord, whether he was a good or a bad physiognomist, had fully made up his mind that the guest was an ill – looking fellow.

Little Dorrit 2007

No physiognomist that ever dwelt on earth could have construed

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution, which nature had made obvious to the most ordinary physiognomist, perhaps with the same intention that she has given the rattle to the poisonous snake.

Rob Roy 2005

Every man under such circumstances is conscious of being a great physiognomist.

Adam Bede 2004