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out of countenance





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“Yes, Jo, I think your harvest will be a good one,” began Mrs. March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

"I see him; he is gazing her out of countenance," said de Lussac.

From Woman and Artist by O'Rell, Max

He put me out of countenance by staring at me with open-mouthed wonder and then bursting into an uncontrolled roar of laughter.

From The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian by Harding, Ellison

Fat, ungainly penguins, sitting in white rows, like surpliced choirs, on the shallow shore, would scuttle further back along the mud flat, and taking up attitudes of doubtful interrogation would stare us out of countenance.

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa

He is never at a loss or put out of countenance.

From Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)




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