anxious-visaged

Updated: May 4, 2025

But all the anxious-visaged man before her noted was a blush that waved like auroral light from the girl's neck to her cheek, from her cheek to her forehead. That he saw, and thought it was love, and thanked the Lord in his clumsy fashion aloud. "God be praised! I do think you guess I do think you guess! But oh, my dear, my dear, you don't know what 's in my heart for you.

Eden Phillpotts - Children of the Mist

"Isabel Munn's daughter, Bartholomew," I reminded him. Instead of replying he staggered out of the door. Through the window we saw him, a moment later, posting down the street, bareheaded and stony-eyed, like one spurred by tormenting thoughts. "Will he do it, do you think?" queried the anxious-visaged Mr. Hines. I shook my head in doubt. With a man like Bartholomew Storrs, one can never tell.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - From a Bench in Our Square