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mien
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synonyms: phiz, countenance, visage, cheer ???
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Definition:a person's look or manner; expression
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His mien was that of a general who sees his way to a master stroke of strategy.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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"Madam," quoth he with a most dolorous mien, "so I value my life, I must needs do my lord's bidding.
Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron, volume 2
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his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien,
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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