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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a long face; hence, having a sober, sad, or rueful face or visage.

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Examples

  • They were in very sharp contrast to the long-visaged clerical gentlemen who were so much in evidence at Tampa, and who never got within 500 miles of danger.

    History of the Gatling Gun Detachment John Henry Parker

  • The face of the _blasé_ theatre-goer shines when his play is announced for the evening; and even the long-visaged critic, fond of talking of the _décadence_ of the modern stage, has been known to appear punctually in his seat when Tom Taylor's play was to lead off the performance.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

  • Look at plants that grow without sun, -- wan, pale, long-visaged, holding feeble, imploring hands of supplication towards the light.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasing aspect, having no one graceful feature in their faces.

    A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

  • "Oh, dear me -- no, no!" sighed the long-visaged person.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • A melancholy group they were, sallow-faced, long-visaged and dolorous, partly from the effects of a long course of study and partly from their present trepidation.

    The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasant aspect, having not one graceful feature in their faces.

    The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876

  • No doubt the reader imagines that the man of such a career was an old stager -- some long-visaged, parchment-faced fellow the other side of forty at least.

    The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2 1870

  • In less than half-an-hour after they were uttered a long-visaged Yankee, in a straw hat, nankeen trousers, and fisherman's boots, came to the spot where they were at work, and seated himself on the trunk of a tree hard by to watch their proceedings.

    The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West 1859

  • Letting down five mouldering bars — so moistly green, they seemed fished up from some sunken wreck — a wigged old Aries, long-visaged, and with crumpled horn, came snuffing up; and then, retreating, decorously led on along a milky-way of white-weed, past dim-clustering Pleiades and

    The piazza tales 1856

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