keep in countenance

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I am amazed that they do not see that their dress is indispensable to keep in countenance the policy and purposes out of which those evils grow.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

They are intended to keep in countenance the well-known "face," which is said to be "the Index of the Mind."

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

He bemoaned himself to the Lord Keeper, in a letter which may keep in countenance the most unmanly of the epistles which Cicero wrote during his banishment.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

She went; and, in order to keep in countenance should she meet anybody, she resolved that she would pretend to be fetching a coat hanging in a wardrobe-closet next to Marietje's room.

From Dr. Adriaan by Couperus, Louis

Herd ye, to keep in countenance; or are afraid of your own hideousness, that ye dread to go alone?

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman