gloomy-visaged funeral directors.
"Then tell her," rejoined he, "that I spake again with the black-a-visaged, hump-shouldered old doctor, and he engages to bring his friend, the gentleman she wots of, aboard with him."
Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly-visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment.
A serious-visaged Ke-ming went from room to room, announcing the instructions of the Venerable Master Kao. Everyone was to act with caution. It would be best for all to wear their clothes to bed so as to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
Doll harangues the Beadle who is about to arrest her: "thou damned tripe-visaged rascal … thou paper-faced villain" in Henry IV Part 2.