This remark, far from being a question, was accompanied with all the Physiognomical evidences of an assertion.
"The Girl of the Golden West"
David Belasco
There was not much alteration in his countenance since we last saw him; the lines, it is true, were a little more decided, and the cheeks a little more sunken; but the dark eye beamed with all its wonted vivacity, and the delicate contour of the mouth preserved all its Physiognomical characteristics of the inward man.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Yet before the child's-rattle of the christening-bell had been jingled, I and the midwife, in front of the mother's bed, instituted Physiognomical Travels on the countenance of the small Unchristian, and returned with the discovery, that some features had been embossed by the pattern of the mother, and many firm portions resembled me; a double similarity, in which my readers can take little interest.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter