With the exception of the aunt, beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin
careworn face was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had settled into three groups.
Hannah showed the result of this attitude somewhat, being a trifle
careworn in face and sharp in manner; but she was a self-contained, well-behaved, dependable child, and that is the reason her aunts had invited her to Riverboro to be a member of their family and participate in all the advantages of their loftier position in the world.
Everything had an empty air, and everyone whom I met looked
careworn and preoccupied, and no wonder, for who would choose to walk abroad at such an early hour, and in such weather?
As for the cardinal, who was lying on his bed with a weary and
careworn face, his cards were held by the Comtesse de Soissons, and he watched them with an incessant look of interest and cupidity.
Wanton avidity, bilious envy,
careworn revenge, populace-pride: all these struck mine eye.
So in his dreams--still there was Mr Haredale, haggard and
careworn, listening in the solitary house to every sound that stirred, with the taper shining through the chinks until the day should turn it pale and end his lonely watching.
The gaunt,
careworn features and dusty figures were made plain by this quaint light at the dawning, but it dressed the skin of the men in corpselike hues and made the tangled limbs appear pulseless and dead.
Yet, having intimated that her appearance was peculiar, as being unlike that of her Flemish companions, I have little more to say respecting it; I can pronounce no encomiums on her beauty, for she was not beautiful; nor offer condolence on her plainness, for neither was she plain; a
careworn character of forehead, and a corresponding moulding of the mouth, struck me with a sentiment resembling surprise, but these traits would probably have passed unnoticed by any less crotchety observer.
She turned quite
careworn. She had bowed to the inevitable result of proximity, the necessity of loving him; but she had not calculated upon this sudden corollary, which, indeed, Clare had put before her without quite meaning himself to do it so soon.
"Your new friend looks like a poet," said Weeks, with a thin smile on his
careworn, bitter mouth.
He was indeed emphatic, but then he was talking to his cook--the swarthy son of Malta, whose lean, yellow and rather
careworn face contrasted quaintly with his snow-white cap and costume.
He looked now more
careworn and emaciated than as we described him at the scene of Hester's public ignominy; and whether it were his failing health, or whatever the cause might be, his large dark eyes had a world of pain in their troubled and melancholy depth.