Parsing Expression Consisting

Famous quotes containing the words expression and/or consisting:

“You see, my dear, it occurred to me that he’d make a delightful coffin follower. That, that expression of melancholy. It’s very interesting, don’t you think so, my love?”
—Vernon Harris (c. 1910)

“Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)