8 examples of sour face in sentences

And here, behind a tableful of papers, sat our steward, Simon Stout-in-faith, a most withered, lean old man, clothed all in leather, wearing no wig but his own rusty grey hair falling lank on his shoulders, with a sour face of a very jaundiced complexion, and pale eyes that seemed to swim in a yellowish rheum, which he was for ever a-mopping with a rag.

He made a sour face when I said he must have seen a good deal.

And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face.

If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause,disguise no god, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs.

but 'tis a sight worth seeing after the ugly sour faces one meets in town these days!"

For an instant an ugly frown further disfigured his sour face: but this frown was only momentary, it soon gave way to a suave smile.

he mimicked, striving to turn a sour face.

The man who opened it was a little fellow with a good-naturedly sour face, who nodded dreamily, like one who did not like to be disturbed in his thoughts, and after he had carefully closed the gate again, without saying a word he sank into a corner, constantly mumbling his prayers.

8 examples of  sour face  in sentences