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Facial muscle

noun

Any of the skeletal muscles of the face.

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"Facial muscle" Quotes from Famous Books

... my wife with a sharpness of tone and a rigidity of facial muscle which, considering the handsome compliment I had just paid her, argued, I was afraid, a foregone conclusion. "You always have recourse to some folly of that sort whenever I am desirous of entering into a serious consultation on ...

— The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren

... chronicle the fact—but truth compels me to make a faithful record—that my reception of the stranger was by no means gracious. I tried to smile; but a smile was such a mockery of my real feelings, that every facial muscle refused to play the hypocrite. The man was not welcome, and it was impossible for ...

— Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper • T. S. Arthur

... read without the twitching of a facial muscle. He shrugged his shoulders, accepting the inevitable with the fatalism of ...

— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine