mien

• “Gluten as a unique food ingredient was discovered by Chinese noodle makers around the 6th century, and by the 11th was known as mien chin, or the “muscle of flour.””

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “The dogs got nothing, though they watched with wistful mien from a distance, sitting up in the snow, their tails curled around their paws.”

  Chapter IV

• “Such a nice affected mien is not only a force upon that which is natural, and ridiculous before men, men of sense; but as it is an evidence of a vain mind, it is offensive to”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “Our people believed that if you give a common thing the meaning of something else you really want—in this case, a bone given the name and mien of a child—the spirit world is tricked into thinking you already have that longed-for object and looks away just long enough for the longed-for object to slip into its place.”

  Simon & Schuster: Freud’s Blind Spot

• “At a restaurant near the cross-road we had rice and a cup of tea, and a bowl of the vermicelli soup known as mien, the muleteer and his son sitting down with my men.”

  AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA

• “The differences are minute and the mien is the same: bold, poised and sexy.”

  Fashion World of SL

• “Obsolete form of "mien": air, bearing, carriage or manner, as expressing character or mood; appearance; expression.”

  Annotations

• “As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred years ago, like the slang of today, is permeated with that sombre, symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, now menacing.”

  Les Miserables

• “Major was a ruddy-complexioned man in his late forties with the closed, hard face of a York-shireman, a handlebar mustache, and the kind of mien one found only in retired boxers, which as it turned out he had been during his stint in the army.”

  Floating City

• “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.”

  Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis

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