physiognomist

Every man under such circumstances is conscious of being a great physiognomist.

No physiognomist by profession could have better characterized the Indian race.

"I think of myself as something of a physiognomist."

No physiognomist that ever dwelt on earth could have construed Tom's face when he heard these words.

So many faces, and nothing in common between one and the next to confirm the hopes of a physiognomist.

As a physiognomist, and as a student of national character, Holbein was in the highest class.

For Kassner, the physiognomist is the mystic of the whole created world.

Like a 19th-century physiognomist, he believes he can see through the mask of any face into the true character.

A physiognomist would have gathered, correctly, that Ann Chester liked having her own way and was accustomed to get it.

You are a physiognomist.

The landlord, whether he was a good or a bad physiognomist, had fully made up his mind that the guest was an ill-looking fellow.

Hearing that among the emissaries was a skilled physiognomist, the emperor would have liked to summon him for consultation.

Now the role that was played by the flaneur, the physiognomist and the detective has been taken by the surveillance camera.

I am a physiognomist, I assure you."

A home of a 'face reader' (physiognomist) where daily flocks of people came to have their fortunes told.

It was impossible for the ablest physiognomist to imagine calculation or self-will beneath that unspeakable delicacy of feature.

"Oh," cried Eugenie, "you are a bad physiognomist, if you imagine I deplore on my own account the catastrophe of which you warn me.

Derues received this cloud of incense with an appearance of sincere modesty and humility, which would have deceived the most skilful physiognomist.

The physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) was one of the first to suggest a link between facial figures and crime.

The work of the physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater, who used silhouettes to analyse facial types, is thought to have promoted the art.

There would be no revenge I Bond said, 'Good lord, no I But I am something of a physiognomist.

Landholdt was the niece of his friend, the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater.

Honegger-Lavater was a direct descendant of the Swiss poet and physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater.

During this recital Derues' calmness never gave way for a single moment, and the most skilful physiognomist could only have discovered an expression of incredulous curiosity on his countenance.

Johann Kaspar (or Caspar) Lavater (15 November 1741 - 2 January 1801) was a Swiss poet and physiognomist.