Usage examples for countenance:

• He had scarcely glanced at it when a strange look passed over his countenance "Wilfrid Cumbermede" – George MacDonald

• Don turned, while a slow smile crept over his countenance "Left Guard Gilbert" – Ralph Henry Barbour

• I never saw greater astonishment on human countenance "A Man of Mark" – Anthony Hope

• Then, surely, " the common round and daily task" have a light thrown upon them from " the beauty of His countenance "My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year" – John Henry Jowett