sour-visaged

It was not until they had knocked more than once that an aged, sour-visaged domestic reconnoitred them through a small square hole in the door, well secured with bars of iron, and demanded what they wanted.

Kenilworth 2004

We observe every day in the contrary direction that giving vent to continual complaint soon makes a person grow sour-minded: and incidentally it also makes him grow sour-visaged.

Spirit and Music H. Ernest Hunt

"Half the books in this library are not worth reading," said a sour-visaged, hypercritical, novel-satiated woman.

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

Agnetia, an elderly and sour-visaged sister to whom Magda had taken an instinctive dislike from the outset.

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

I thank heaven that our camp did yesterday fall in dry places, for there were many of these sour-visaged soldiers called me Jonah, and I did well to escape ducking in a horse-pond.

Cromwell Alfred B. Richards

There, with the aid of the loquacious sergeant as interpreter, we gave our names, ages, and descriptions to the commandant, a sour-visaged fellow, who entered the particulars in a book.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

Oh, Bobby, the thought of marrying that sour-visaged cousin of mine makes me ill, even now!

The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

What with the constant nagging of his sour-visaged relative, the worry over his sick father, and the suspense as to his own future movements, Frank did not have a very happy time of it.

The Boys of Bellwood School Frank V. Webster

Late in life he married a tall, lean, sour-visaged spinster, considerably past thirty, with nothing whatever to recommend her except that she belonged to one of the first families.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

How often Benson had come in from school, ill-tempered and sour-visaged at something that had gone wrong in the class-room, only to have that droll face of his father's and some equally droll remark upset all his dignity and indignation into laughter and consequent good nature.

The Shagganappi 1913