keep in countenance

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.

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

It was believed that the occupation of these points would not only be the means of stopping the contraband trade, which was kept up in spite of the blockading fleet, but that it would also "keep in countenance the partisans of the Union, who were thought to be numerous in North Carolina."

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.

They keep in countenance the distillery and the dram-shop, and every drunkard that reels in the streets.