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Examples
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Sir I'le be with you presently, Sir Credulous be sure you lug him by the Ears, with any sort of stuff, till my return, I'le send you a friend to keep you in Countenance.
Sir Patient Fancy 1678
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Good-nature is more agreeable in Conversation than Wit, and gives a certain Air to the Countenance which is more amiable than Beauty.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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In short the Air of his Countenance, the Motions of his Body, Hands, and Head, are extreamly silly, and affected and mean.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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His Air is absurd and wild, desultory, and irregular, as his Countenance is low and ignoble.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Senior Countenance-Crushing Correspondent Sam Stein: On Tuesday, Lauren Valle spoke for the first time since being thrust into the center of an alarming campaign fracas.
HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 26TH, 2010 Eliot Nelson 2010
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Should I feel bad that I've never heard of Light of Thy Countenance?
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The staging of a play, with inmates as characters; the story of Alonso Quijana's transformation into the fabled Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
James Scarborough: Man of La Mancha at Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2012
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Moore's famed collaboration with Dave Gibbons holds onto the top spots on the hardcover and paperback charts, followed at No. 2 by Batman: The Killing Joke on the former and Light of Thy Countenance -- adapted by Antony Johnston and Felipe Massafera -- on the latter.
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The staging of a play, with inmates as characters; the story of Alonso Quijana's transformation into the fabled Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
James Scarborough: Man of La Mancha at Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2012
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The staging of a play, with inmates as characters; the story of Alonso Quijana's transformation into the fabled Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
James Scarborough: Man of La Mancha at Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2012
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