physiognomist
Americannoun
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Said the aged physiognomist: "We are here to fill the hours with revelry; to see each other with glances of Mertonian eyes."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a physiognomist of power, celebrity, rank and beauty, he was as celebrated in Georgian England as Rubens had been in baroque Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
I believe that a divine physiognomist would read Doctor Hale’s career in his gray eyes and their high ramparts.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various
In the faces of the trio seated at the table a physiognomist might find interesting study, and note expressions that would puzzle Lavater himself.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
The prince, a practised physiognomist, was subject to involuntary likes and dislikes upon the first interview with an individual, and these impulses were in his case almost invariably borne out by after-circumstances.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
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