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mien
1. It can also mean the state, condition or mien
2. The scarred man’s eyes widened, but he quickly resumed his suspicious mien
3. When Larocka held the security man’s eyes, he straightened and resumed his stern mien
4. The Computer Revolution, the promise of placing a heavenly mien upon Mankind, proclaiming that the arrogance of knowledge is sufficient to all things temporal and eternal, has arrived and is master of all that it surveys
5. Heroes, whose selfless deeds caused them to be remembered as with a god-like mien, proliferated within the Pantheon of the “Hellenes
6. with their becoming and ingenuous mien, smiled on them, and calling them near, said: 4 O youths, with favourable feelings, I admire
7. ” She paused as the memory swept over her, then continued in a quieter, more dangerous mien
8. 3 Whom when the tyrant beheld encircling their mother as in a dance he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming and ingenuous mien smiled on them and calling them near said: 4 O youths with favourable feelings I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of brethren I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before 5 but I do beg you to yield and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power not only of punishing those who disobey my commands but of doing good to those who obey them
9. His mien was all
10. Also, no offence, but despite your serious mien, you seem young… and inexperienced
11. beyond all description, yet with a mien of omniscient, inscrutable majesty,
12. Although he had a pleasant mien
13. I love the Romans and I decided to make my very own version of the Ten Commandments from my book, Mien Kampf
14. Let us be realistic for a second; for those of you who have read Hitler’s book Mien Kampf you will know that Hitler was a visionary, he saw what was happening with the Jews so he stopped it
15. The first page is extracts from Mien Kampf which are still relevant today
16. They could tell by his tone that contemptuousness was creeping back into his mien and though fat, sloppy and securely trussed, Jack Pappadoupoulis wasn‘t to be taken lightly
17. Elise picked at the food proffered by the silent man and noticed his subdued mien, a posture she construed as the calm before the storm
18. With joyful mien, whence I was comforted,
19. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—
20. “Me and Virna are sorry to disturb you like this, but the Global Science Administrator, Daran Mien, is under increasing pressure to show a practical return for the heavy investment put into the Time Patrol
21. Administrator Mien understands that it takes time to train personnel properly, but the Time Patrol does have a few qualified members that could be put to good use right away
22. ‘’What loss rate among my agents is Administrator Mien ready to accept? And on what basis your experts from the History Council calculated the risks of missions in the past as ‘minimal’?’’
23. ‘’In that case, would you be ready to conduct yourself at least one mission right away? The History Council has recently provided to Administrator Mien a list of 176
24. “Administrator Mien does not expect you to do more than a few of the top priority projects this coming year, Doctor Tolkonen
25. Farah Tolkonen is defending the actions of Miss Laplante but Mien still is calling for Laplante’s dismissal
26. As for the controversy concerning this Miriam of Magdala, Mien overlooked something that Tolkonen didn’t: the misogyny factor in history
27. Mien, like the huge 472
28. The so-called experts enlisted by Mien missed by a light-year on this subject
29. ‘barbarians’? Another question for you: did Mien or Bartok ever risk their life in the service of the Global Council? The answer is never
30. Who are you going to trust, Boran? Mien can be replaced, but not Laplante
31. I will respond to Mien accordingly and endorse Laplante’s actions
32. After a short group discussion, Rox’s motion was accepted by the Council, with Global Science Administrator Daran Mien, who was overseeing the mandate of the Time Patrol, directed to enlist the help of the Time Patrol for the project
33. Science and Education Administrator Mien, you and Administrator Rox will coordinate the creation of this project, with Miss Rox in overall charge
34. ” Said Daran Mien, the Global Science and Education Administrator and direct 619
35. His heart heavy, Kern had no choice but to conduct the vote called for by Bartok and Mien
36. ��� Said Mien, immediately interested
37. � Farah got up from her chair, intent on having a decent meal before passing the bad news to Daran Mien
38. � Farah then understood that she had the frequency of the new continuum and jumped at once on the lab�s videophone to call Daran Mien
39. � Daran Mien could only look for a few seconds before turning his head away from the screen and throwing up on the carpet of his office
40. ����������� �Daran Mien, stop judging people from behind this safe desk of yours
41. � Farah swore to herself while throwing a furious look at Daran Mien: she had no doubt about who had provided that recording to Golen Bartok
42. SATURDAY: You are serious-minded and reserved, and possess a dignified mien and bearing
43. He had the same impassive mien as his older brother but inside he was in turmoil
44. at the change in his mien
45. Pine dismissed Hemlock who glared back at Pine with a blackened mien and instead continued to question him further about the trip
46. She was no more the slim, girlish mien of old but a sturdy young woman nearing thirty whose face had lost its delicacy and some but not all of its beauty
47. To break the gloomy silence, the painful thoughts and my cheerless mien
48. ” She grinned at that, twiddling her fingers in the air like she was relating a ghost story, and it turned her haughty expression into a more approachable mien
49. Here the author's outburst came to an end, and he proceeded to take up the thread of his story, saying that the keeper, seeing that Don Quixote had taken up his position, and that it was impossible for him to avoid letting out the male without incurring the enmity of the fiery and daring knight, flung open the doors of the first cage, containing, as has been said, the lion, which was now seen to be of enormous size, and grim and hideous mien
50. Shortly after this, several bands of dancers of various sorts began to enter the arcade at different points, and among them one of sword-dancers composed of some four-and-twenty lads of gallant and high-spirited mien, clad in the finest and whitest of linen, and with handkerchiefs
51. Coming closer, he distinguished among them a lady of graceful mien, on a pure white palfrey or hackney caparisoned with green trappings and a silver-mounted side-saddle
52. The words were barely uttered, when he encountered a savage of gigantic stature, of the fiercest mien
53. Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child
54. But the Unseelie Princes just shocked the hell out of me, proved themselves to be ambitious and goal-oriented, willing to adopt a mien of civility to achieve their aims, and channel what used to be a maelstrom of uncontrolled hunger into deliberated action
55. "Let us make for the rocks on the main," he said, with the mien of a tired soldier, "and give battle to the savages
56. The young Mohican cast a glance at his father, but, maintaining his quiet and reserved mien, he continued silent
57. One warrior in particular, a man of wild and ferocious mien, had been conspicuous for the attention he had given to the words of the speaker
58. When he had reached the group in which it was evident, by the haughtiness of their common mien, that the principal chiefs were collected, the stranger paused, and then the Delawares saw that the active and erect form that stood before them was that of the well-known Huron chief, Le Renard Subtil
59. "I call him so who proves himself such," returned the young chief, with great calmness, but with a steady mien
60. Magua was conspicuous in this party, both by his fierce and savage mien, and by the air of haughty authority he yet maintained
61. Munro started, as if the last trumpet had sounded in his ear, and bestowing one anxious and hurried glance around him, he arose and followed in the simple train, with the mien of a soldier, but bearing the full burden of a parent's suffering
62. such a queenly mien
63. —Ho, varlet! cried he, who by his mien seemed the leader of the party
64. There was a sort of scholars along either side the board, that is to wit, Dixon yclept junior of saint Mary Merciable's with other his fellows Lynch and Madden, scholars of medicine, and the franklin that hight Lenehan and one from Alba Longa, one Crotthers, and young Stephen that had mien of a frere that was at head of the board and Costello that men clepen Punch Costello all long of a mastery of him erewhile gested (and of all them, reserved young Stephen, he was the most drunken that demanded still of more mead) and beside the meek sir Leopold
65. BLOOM: (Shuddering, shrinking, joins his hands: with hangdog mien) O cold! O shivery! It was your ambrosial beauty
66. It might be, on this one day, that there was an expression unseen before, nor, indeed, vivid enough to be detected now; unless some preternaturally gifted observer should have first read the heart, and have afterwards sought a corresponding development in the countenance and mien
67. “They know each other well, indeed,” replied Hester, with a mien of calmness,
68. “God's eye beheld it! The angels were forever pointing at it! The Devil knew it well, and fretted it continually with the touch of his burning finger! But he hid it cunningly from men, and walked among you with the mien of a spirit, mournful, because so pure in a sinful world!—and sad, because he missed his heavenly kindred! Now, at the death-hour, he stands up before you! He bids you look again at Hester's scarlet letter! He tells you, that, with all its mysterious horror, it is but the shadow of what he bears on his own breast, and that even this, his own red stigma, is no more than the type of what has seared his inmost heart! Stand any here that question God's judgment on a sinner? Behold! Behold a dreadful witness of it!”
69. And fear, yes, but the fear wasn’t dominant, as I’d previously recalled; it was only one element in an extraordinary mien of twisted and tortured emotions
70. When Rhett told her with the proper sober mien that he was moved to contribute by the memories of former comrades in arms, braver than he but less fortunate, who now told her Scarlett had said Captain Butler was in the army but, of course, she hadn’t lay in unmarked graves, Mrs
71. She had the mobile face frequent in those whose sight has decayed by stages, has been laboriously striven after, and reluctantly let go, rather than the stagnant mien apparent in persons long sightless or born blind
72. The old gray wall began to advertise a similar fiery lettering to the first, with a strange and unwonted mien, as if distressed at duties it had never before been called upon to perform
73. The night came in, and took up its place there, unconcerned and indifferent; the night which had already swallowed up his happiness, and was now digesting it listlessly; and was ready to swallow up the happiness of a thousand other people with as little disturbance or change of mien
74. it last, and to behold it now! … There was the same handsome unpleasantness of mien, but now he wore neatly trimmed, oldfashioned whiskers, the sable moustache having disappeared; and his dress was half-clerical, a modification which had changed his expression sufficiently to abstract the dandyism from his features, and to hinder for a second her belief in his identity
75. Tess, who had been quite unconscious of her action and mien, instantly withdrew the large dark gaze of her eyes, stammering with a flush, "I beg your pardon!" And there was revived in her the wretched sentiment which had often come to her before, that in inhabiting the fleshly tabernacle with which Nature had endowed her she was somehow doing wrong
76. He was a Man nearly as terrible as his Bird, with a similar Beak, Eyes, and Mien
77. Now Kate whisper’d something in his Ear, and now suddenly he wore a troubl’d Mien, his Moustache seem’d to droop, his Mouth quiver’d as if he should begin to cry
78. Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality
79. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false Corneille compose Tiridate; let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister of finances,—and men call that Genius, just as they call the face of Mousqueton Beauty, and the mien of Claude Majesty
80. This child's whole person, her mien, her attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,— fear
81. "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you are generous
82. Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais
83. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister
84. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed
85. One felt that under other conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this young girl might have turned out sweet and charming
86. The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked
87. As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, now menacing
88. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a swamp
