"Expressionless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the men again, and again the throat rumbling and cursing arose, their faces convulsed and animal-like with rage. The second and third mates had joined the captain, standing behind him at the break of the poop. Their faces were set and expressionless; they seemed bored, more than anything else, by this mutiny of the crew. Captain Davenport glanced questioningly at his first mate, and that person merely shrugged his shoulders in token of ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London
... chewing her lips, hands clenched into small fists in her lap. Then Maulbow answered, voice flat and expressionless now. ...
— The Winds of Time • James H. Schmitz
... coughed, and the burgher moved in his chair and swallowed half a goblet of wine. Twonette laughed outright at the pretty turn Max had made upon Yolanda, and I ridiculously tried to keep my face expressionless. Yolanda laughed flutteringly, ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... those persons with whom she came in contact. These contained so much humor that Mary Louise was delighted with them—especially one of "Uncle Peter" toying with his watch fob and staring straight ahead of him with round, expressionless eyes. ...
— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)
... might be encountered and where—as if by chance, and therefore, quite respectfully. Sometimes she remotely wondered if he himself did not make such encounters easy for her. But his manner never altered in its somewhat stiff, expressionless chill of indifference. He never was kindly in his manner to the child if he met her. Dowson felt him at once casual and "lofty." Robin might have been a bit of unconsidered rubbish, the sight of which slightly bored him. Yet ...
— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett
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