phizes

“She is pretty though,” retorted Cerizet; “it is better to have her to look at than the phizes of your gaffers.”

Eve and David 2007

“She is pretty though,” retorted Cerizet; “it is better to have her to look at than the phizes of your gaffers.”

Eve and David 2007

In the midst of my fears, I was amused with the solemn, and concernful phizes of the two constables, and one or two others.

John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey John Bound 1833

"She is pretty though," retorted Cerizet; "it is better to have her to look at than the phizes of your gaffers."

Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

"She is pretty though," retorted Cerizet; "it is better to have her to look at than the phizes of your gaffers."

Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

With us, your yeomen whenever they have a chance, I have observed, most uncivilly poke about the lieges with but and bayonet, or thump and rump them with their chargers, and entice the ill-broken brutes with insidious prods of the spur to swish their tails, if tails they have, into the upturned phizes of their awe-stricken fellows.

Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. Tyrone Power 1818

On repairing on board her, my commander said to me, “You help me to look at those fellows’ phizes,” pointing to a number of men who were toeing the seam on her quarter-deck.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman