Word: mien
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Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm : The morose mien cf country bankers...
...spare hour between two classes. He sits down at his desk and sharpens a pencil, breaks it and tries again. Then he picks up a newspaper--often last week's--and reads a headline here, an advertisement there, and deciphers the cartoons with wrapt attention and solemn mien. Next, he opens a magazine lying at hand and reads half a story. Wearying of that, he curses in a bored sort of way and turns back to the pencil which he has again broken while tracing designs on his blotter. Then he consults his watch and decides he can do nothing...
Elle a pris une forme des plus inattendues, elle est devenue une veritable grand fete, tres pittoresque, ma foi, dans laquelle vos costumes rappelant certaines grandes epoques de l'hostoire contrastent avec ceux de vos professeurs et le mien qui rappellent plusieurs siecles de traditions que je suis sur vous chercherez a perpetuer. C'est meme a cela qu'en terminant je vous inviteral tout particulierement-n'oubliez jamais que vous appartenez a Harvard-sachez lui conserver le bon renom que vos amis lui ont acquis-prouvez enfin parvos travaux, et meme dans vos jeux, que vous la voulez toujours...
...Magnus Fluvius Novi Belgae" as the Atlas calls it, a couple of pelicans stand gazing at each other in mute admiration. The author describes North America as being divided into "New France, New Spain, Virginia, Florida, New Granada and California, which are inhabited by copper-colored barbarians of horrid mien. The work cost 300 marks in Dresden, Germany...
...these conferences coincided very well with the courses I had intended pursuing at Harvard; but how to obtain admittance to them was a problem that seemed to me well nigh incapable of being solved. I bethought myself of a certificate furnished me by our dean, and with a modest mien, determined to put it to practical use. With my indifferent French I explained with some difficulty to the authorities my desires, displayed the dean's certificate and the wonders of a systematically arranged catalogue of an American university, being exceedingly careful to give them an exalted idea of the amount...