Chin is an important element in any face. A double chin or a wrinkled chin may show old age of the person. Shaven chin may improve cosmetic appearance. Sunken chins may show a deprived condition. Hence writers and poets use their best diction to describe 'chins' in faces.
LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES WHICH DESCRIBE A 'CHIN'
More phrases will be added to this list from time to time.Blunt chin, bony chin (J. Farnol), bristling chin (Howard Pyle) brown chin
Cheeks hollowed by suffering, Clearcut chin
Dimpled chin
Entrancing chin
Indomitable chin
Little chin
Mutilated chin
Out-thrust chin (Rudyard Kipling), oval chin
Pinched chin, projecting chin (G. McDonald), prominent chin (Katherine M.H. Blackford), protruding chin (F.B. Tarbell)
Receding chin (K.D. Wiggin), royal chin
Shattered chin, shaven chin, silhouetted chin (Thomas Dixon)
Tremulous chin
Unhairy chin (B.E. Stevenson)
Vigorous chin (M.R. Piper)
Warm chin (Margery Williams), weak chin
1. Names in brackets are those of the authors who used the phrases.
2. If you chose, you can compare your answers with the key, Click: Click.
3. Your answers need not agree with the key. Choosing the right words is, always, a question of individual preference.
PHRASES USED IN THIS TESTChiselled chin
Cleft chin
Double chin
Emphasized chin
Noble chin
Pointed chin
Rounded chin
Rusty chin
Sloping chin
Square chin
581. "A good-looking chap," he said over his shoulder. "Face clean cut, fine mouth, a frontal bone that must have brain behind it, ______ chin--" He broke off to ask: "What do you suppose happened to him?" [James Oliver Curwood in his novel 'Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police'].
582. After the craftsmen, the religious orders marched past, from the
Dominicans to the Carthusians, from the Carmelites to the Capuchins. They advanced slowly, their eyes cast down, their step austere, their hands on their hearts; some faces were rubicund and shining, with large cheek-hones and _______ chins, herculean heads upon bullnecks; some, thin and livid, with cheeks hollowed by suffering and penitence, and with the look of living ghosts; in short, here were the two sides of monastic life. [Alexander Dumas in his 'Nisida'].
583. She turned her head away from them and fell into deep thought, with
her _____ chin resting on her white hand, half clenched.
[Charles Reade in his book 'The Cloister and the Hearth'].
584. The Dummy uttered one of his abortive sounds, much like that of an angry puma, contorted his face, and put his hand above his head, so that I had
a very vivid suggestion of the lady, her _______ chin and her hat,
at which all Papeete laughed. [Fredrick O'Brien in his 'Mystic Isles of the South Seas].
585. "You see that old Turk with the ______ chin?"[Robert Hichens 'In the Wilderness'].
586. The moonlight charitably softened the ravages of drink; and his aquiline, well-shaped nose and small, square _____ chin almost gave distinction to his looks. [O. Henry in his novel 'Heart of the West']
587. The shadowy eyes under the untidy mass of red-brown hair, in which the curls and tendrils stood out as if endowed with a magnetic life of their own; the sensitive lips; the little _______ chin; and, in the eyes and on the lips, that gently mocking, alluring smile. [Rosa Praed in her 'Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land'].
588. The lips were full, and the mouth was drawn in such exquisite lines that it needed the clear-cut and __________ chin to give firmness to its beauty. The broad forehead, with arching eyebrows, gave an intellectual cast to a face the special stamp of which was purity. [Charles Dudley Warner in his 'The Golden House'].
589. A shambling and disconsolate youth, clad in a three-days' growth of beard, a checked jumper and khaki trousers, this person lounged negligently in the doorway of the waiting-room and, caressing his _____ chin with nicotine-dyed fingers, regarded the stranger in Nokomis with an air of subtle yet vaguely melancholy superiority. [ Louis Joseph Vance in his 'The Bronze Bell'].
590. Imagine a bald head, the brow full and prominent and falling with deep projection over a little flattened nose turned up at the end like the noses of Rabelais and Socrates; a laughing, wrinkled mouth; a short boldly _________ chin and garnished with a gray beard cut into a point; sea-green eyes, faded perhaps by age, but whose pupils, contrasting with the pearl-white balls on which they floated, cast at times magnetic glances of anger or enthusiasm. [Honore de Balzac in his 'The Hidden Masterpiece'].
