What is "phiz"

Usage examples of "phiz".

Name, as the enigmatic Phiz continues, in the weak light, to sharpen toward Revelation.

Cocking an eye at his earnest phiz, which was passable, but no pin-up, I would have said that she was overpricing him.

The Hairy Horror is standing beside the window holding his rum bottle by the neck, his great, ugly, tattooed phiz smiling drunkenly.

Hawk stands two foot taller than most, a black giant with Maori markings on his phiz and a young tart on his arm with a magpie nested in her hat.

And gaze upon thy phiz with solemn awe, But for a most audacious wish to gauge The hoarded wisdom of thy learned craw.

He could not make sense, though he joined words he gave me Phiz, styx, wrong, buck, flame, quiz.

And I often hear a laugh like his From a sense of humour keen, And catch a glimpse in a passing phiz Of his broad, good-humoured grin.

When you see this intelligent phiz again it will hold in its mind the greatest circulation yarn in days.

Edgewise is traveling with his Wife, who, when she must, regards him with a Phiz that speaks of the great amounts of her time given over, in a philosophickal way, to classifying the numerous forms of human idiot, beyond the common or Blithering sort, with which all are familiar, the Bloody-Minded I.

Oh, as to Pity, " The Phiz of the Jesuit, who hasn't been missing too many Rounds, may be observ'd now in a certain state of Beefiness.

In Your greatest and most prosperous city I find vinegar phizzes to grins in a ratio of fourteen to one-and he says it's not significant!