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"I would rather be in the neighbourhood of any other land, I think, than that of Africa." "Especially Africa between the Canaries and Cape Blanco," returned Captain Truck, with an expressive shrug.
Conroy's appearance, not merely his expression but his actual features seemed to change. Instead of the shrewd face of a successful American financier Bob Power saw the face of an Irish peasant. He was perfectly familiar with the type. It was one which he had known all his life. He knew it at its best, expressive of lofty idealisms and fantastic dreams of things beyond this world's experience.
Smoke had jumped down from the back of the arm-chair and now occupied the middle of the carpet, where, with tail erect and legs stiff as ramrods, it was steadily pacing backwards and forwards in a narrow space, uttering, as it did so, those curious little guttural sounds of pleasure that only an animal of the feline species knows how to make expressive of supreme happiness.
One glance was sufficient to show Ulrica that she was not deceived, and that this important event had brought no joy to poor Amelia. The lovely eyes of the princess were red with weeping; and the soft lips, so generally and gladly given to gay chat and merry laughter, were now expressive of silent anguish. Ulrica saw all this, and laid her plans accordingly.
He went melancholy and thoughtful, his countenance expressive of deep vexation, into his mother's apartment, and sat down on the end of a sofa at a distance from her. "What is the matter with you, son?" said his mother, seeing him thus depressed. "Why are you so altered, so dejected, and so different from yourself? You could not certainly be more concerned, if you had lost all you had.
The attorney transferred his gaze from the expressive features of his fair client to the open countenance of the manager. "Yes," he said. "And would have inherited this property but for Constance?" "Exactly! But you knew him, Mr. Barnes?" "He was an occupant of the chariot, sir," replied the manager, with some feeling.
She leaned forward, dimpling like fourteen instead of forty. "And you've noticed haven't you, T. A.? that I've got an expressive countenance." Buck leaned forward, too. His smile was almost gone. "I've noticed a lot of things, Emma McChesney. And if you persist in deviling me for one more minute, I'm going to mention a few."
She talked rapidly, in a sweet expressive voice that had a strange charm.
The greater part listened with a calm, satisfied countenance, expressive of a conscious merit in being present, and in listening to such an ingenious discourse, although perhaps unable entirely to comprehend it.
However, by a careful raising of the voice in all difficult passages, and a wild, expressive pantomime, an understanding was arrived at. The visitors belonged to the tribe of Siriniris, inhabiting the space comprised between the valleys of Ocongate and Ollachea, and extending eastwardly as far as the twelfth degree. They lived at peace with their neighbors, the Huat-chipayris and the Pukiris.
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