All 15 Uses of

countenance

in

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The beggar turned round; there was surprise, recognition, a lighting up of the two countenances, and so forth; then, without paying the slightest heed in the world to the spectators, the hosier and the wretched being began to converse in a low tone, holding each other's hands, in the meantime, while the rags of Clopin Trouillefou, spread out upon the cloth of gold of the dais, produced the effect of a caterpillar on an orange.†
Chpt 1.1.4

countenances = facial expressions; or faces

There were no means of resisting that rising tide of frightful faces; rage made these fierce countenances ruddy; their clayey brows were dripping with sweat; their eyes darted lightnings; all these grimaces, all these horrors laid siege to Quasimodo.†
Chpt 2.10.4 *

" cried one of them, to a sort of little, light-haired imp, with a well-favored and malign countenance, clinging to the acanthus leaves of a capital; "you are well named John of the Mill, for your two arms and your two legs have the air of four wings fluttering on the breeze.†
Chpt 1.1.1

You have here enough grotesque specimens of both sexes, to allow of laughing in Flemish fashion, and there are enough of us ugly in countenance to hope for a fine grinning match.†
Chpt 1.1.4

At the moment when he passed close to this species of spider with a human countenance, it raised towards him a lamentable voice: "~La buona mancia, signor!†
Chpt 1.2.6

When she withdrew her head from the window, her countenance was inundated with tears.†
Chpt 1.6.3

Nothing was to be seen upon his countenance but the astonishment of a savage or an idiot.†
Chpt 1.6.4

Any one who could have beheld at that moment the captain's inflamed countenance, his leap backwards, so violent that he disengaged himself from the grip which held him, the proud air with which he clapped his hand on his swordhilt, and, in the presence of this wrath the gloomy immobility of the man in the cloak,—any one who could have beheld this would have been frightened.†
Chpt 2.7.7

The captain was quite put out of countenance about it; he experienced that sort of shame which our La Fontaine has so admirably defined,— Ashamed as a fox who has been caught by a fowl.†
Chpt 2.8.6

The archdeacon was afraid of meeting some one there; he feared every human countenance; he had just avoided the University and the Bourg Saint-Germain; he wished to re-enter the streets as late as possible.†
Chpt 2.9.1

In proportion as her inward wounds closed, her grace and beauty blossomed once more on her countenance, but more thoughtful, more reposeful.†
Chpt 2.9.4

When they had passed through the door of the cell, its pale rays fell upon the priest's countenance.†
Chpt 2.9.6

He rubbed his hands, he laughed with that inward mirth which makes the countenance beam; he was unable to dissimulate his joy, although he endeavored at moments to compose himself.†
Chpt 2.10.5

The second had a pallid and smiling countenance, with which the reader is already acquainted.†
Chpt 2.10.5

Coppenole, with his tranquil and rustic countenance, made the king approach the window.†
Chpt 2.10.5

Definitions:

(1) (countenance as in: a pleasant countenance)
facial expression; or face; or composure or manner
(2) (countenance as in: giving countenance)
to tolerate, approve, or show favor or support