And said Sancho, "If by chance these gentlemen should want to know who was the hero that served them so, your worship may tell them that he is the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the RuefulCountenance."

"Go," said the Huron, suppressing the alarming exhibition in an instant, in a death-like calmness ofcountenance; "go to the dark-haired daughter, and say, 'Magua waits to speak' The father will remember what the child promises."

Soon, however, I descended to details, and regarded with minute interest the innumerable varieties of figure, dress, air, gait, visage, and expression ofcountenance.

The orator watched hiscountenance, with an expression that manifested how inextinguishable was the hatred he felt for the only chief, far and near, whose fame might advantageously be compared with his own.

Mr Venus involuntarily smoothed hiscountenance, and looked at his hand, as if to see whether any of its speaking properties came off.

"It was on one of these days, when my cottagers periodically rested from labour--the old man played on his guitar, and the children listened to him--that I observed thecountenance of Felix was melancholy beyond expression; he sighed frequently, and once his father paused in his music, and I conjectured by his manner that he inquired the cause of his son's sorrow.

A game-cock in the stableyard, deprived of every spark of his accustomed animation, balanced himself dismally on one leg in a corner; a donkey, moping with drooping head under the narrow roof of an outhouse, appeared from his meditative and miserablecountenance to be contemplating suicide.

Ordinary followers ought to challenge no higher conditions, thancountenance, recommendation, and protection from wrongs.

Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the alterations of hercountenance to the several alterations of her habit: for as this changed from weeds to black, from black to grey, from grey to white, so did hercountenance change from dismal to sorrowful, from sorrowful to sad, and from sad to serious, till the day came in which she was allowed to return to her former serenity.

Osgood was adorned with the speakingcountenance of Miss Henly.

Whether it were the monarch himself, or some famous British admiral or general, or the governor of the province, or perchance the favorite daughter of the ship-owner, there the image stood above the prow, decked out in gorgeous colors, magnificently gilded, and staring the whole world out ofcountenance, as if from an innate consciousness of its own superiority.

Their leader, the famous Endicott, was a man of stern and resolutecountenance, the effect of which was heightened by a grizzled beard that swept the upper portion of his breastplate.