"It is not so," said Ishmael, whose usually inflexible
features were beginning to manifest the uneasiness he felt.
Her complexion was exquisitely fair, but the noble cast of her head and
features prevented the insipidity which sometimes attaches to fair beauties.
There were some handshakings and deep speeches with men whose
features were familiar, but with whom the youth now felt the bonds of tied hearts.
The estuary of the Thames is not beautiful; it has no noble
features, no romantic grandeur of aspect, no smiling geniality; but it is wide open, spacious, inviting, hospitable at the first glance, with a strange air of mysteriousness which lingers about it to this very day.
They had but to lift their eyes, and there it was plainly to be seen, though miles away, with the sunshine brightening all its
features. And what was the Great Stone Face?
My mother, I perceived, had bequeathed to me much of her
features and countenance--her forehead, her eyes, her complexion.
At the same instant he recognized the evil
features of the rajah as those of the man who had directed the abduction of Virginia Maxon from the wrecked Ithaca.
Sam left it with the landlady, and was returning to pull his master's boots off, after drying himself by the kitchen fire, when glancing casually through a half-opened door, he was arrested by the sight of a gentleman with a sandy head who had a large bundle of newspapers lying on the table before him, and was perusing the leading article of one with a settled sneer which curled up his nose and all other
features into a majestic expression of haughty contempt.
And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the
features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale.
Alice unconsciously dried her tears, and bent her melting eyes on the pallid
features of Gamut, with an expression of chastened delight that she neither affected or wished to conceal.
Then she glanced at me, simpered a little, and blushed, modestly looked at her prayer-book, and endeavoured to compose her
features.
So far as the geography, the inhabitants, the animals, and the
features of the countries the travellers pass over are described, it is entirely accurate.