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Sentences starting with face

Face to face with the man who had tempted him to crime, Lygon had a new sense of boldness, a sudden feeling of reprisal, a rushing desire to put the screw upon him. [11]
Face me to the north. [11]
Face swords and the big guns and death? [5]
Face a general red flush. [5]
Face like a mornin' in May, and hands like the tunes of an organ, she has. [11]

Sentences ending with face

Fay has taken you're pretendin' to--to care for me for the thing it looks on the face. [13]
There's awe in your face! [5]
She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and fear appeared on her flushed face. [2]
Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
Oh, I know you do not so misjudge me," she added, reading his quick protest in his face. [9]
And a joyful yet pathetic expression which seemed to beg forgiveness for her joy settled on Natasha's face. [2]
He pinioned her wrists with one hand and drew her towards the door, determination and anger in his face. [11]
On hearing these words, Bartja and Sappho each took one of her hands, and gazed entreatingly into her face. [10]
A look of wonder, revelation and gratitude crept into Tripple's face. [11]

Short sentences using face

Relief crossed the woman's face. [11]
Sallow face, sprinkled with freckles. [5]
Her face flushed with anger. [11]
His face was white. [11]
His face turned white. [11]
His haggard face was yellow. [2]
His jolly face was troubled. [9]
But his face was troubled. [11]
Honora's face grew warm. [9]
His face was very melancholy. [5]

Sentences containing face two or more times

They laugh, as you know, at Praxilla, the poetess, because she makes the dying Adonis lament, when face to face with death, that he is forced to leave the apples and pears behind him. [10]
He was not yet even face to face with the fulness of his disaster. [11]
The man who would face a cannon's mouth would falter before the face of a woman whom he could crumple with one hand. [11]
But something occurred, while she was in this mood, that did not shock her maidenly self-consciousness, nor throw her into antagonism, but which did bring her face to face with a possible reality. [4]
At the Fete when she and Ingolby met face to face, people had immediately drawn round them curious and excited. [11]
She would face whatever there was to face. [11]
I only know what I thought then, face to face with death. [10]
And through the wet there appeared a face, shocking in its paleness and misery--the face of Mrs. Falchion. [11]
The more unskilful were obliged to thrust at this figure to train the hand and eye; the others stood face to face in pairs and fought under Georg's direction with blunt foils. [10]
Oh, if we were face to face in this room again, my white-livered man of law, how well contented one of us would be! [12]

More example sentences with the word face in them

A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
I see by your face that it will not be wasted. [10]
I see in your face it is true; they have condemned Paula. [10]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
I have seen your face by the light, and that is enough for this time. [10]
To gaze in your face at the same time was, perhaps, even better physic. [10]
If I had your face and neck and figure I'd die before I'd live in Rivington. [9]
What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
The face of your daughter drew him on. [11]
We are both young; time is with us; and we will flourish palms in the face of Europe yet. [11]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
He was a young man with a smooth face, and a frank brown eye which paid its tribute to Virginia. [9]
I looked this young man steadily in the face for about thirty seconds. [6]
He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
And another, a young lawyer, who declared that he would rather face a wild cat than ask Whipple a question on the new code. [9]
If he loves you,--and I have long suspected that he does--" "Oh, no," she cried, hiding her face "No. [9]
I don't want you to see them, nor your sisters, nor nobody in this town; if a neighbor was to ask how is your uncles this morning your face would tell something. [5]
For every fleece you thieved I'll have you flayed with bow-strings if ever I sight your face within my boundaries. [11]
Tell me, are you only a tourist--I was going to say idler, but I know you are not; you have the face of a man who does things--are you tourist or worker here? [11]
I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. [6]
But remember that you may have to face hard things. [9]
Let me teach you how to face the world without a dollar; how to make a fortune. [11]
On every face you could see the words hieroglyphed: "It is a confession!--and paltry, lame, and thin. [5]
Do you reckon you can go and face your uncles when they come to kiss you good-morning, and never--" "There, there, don't! [5]
He has given you a son whom all men may look in the face, of whom you need never be ashamed. [9]
She did not yet stir, but there came into her face a slight inflection of confusion or perplexity. [11]
While he was yet speaking, Caracalla, leaning on the table by his couch with both hands, fixed his eyes on his face, without a word. [10]
She dared not yet face the question she had seen he was about to ask. [11]
How'll yer face yer mother if yer turn yer back on the inimy of yer counthry? [11]
The face, so yellow and peaked, was of the type that grows even more handsome in sickness, and in the great fever-stricken eyes a high spirit burned. [9]
She was twenty-eight years old, and yet she had never kissed a face in joy or to give joy. [11]
She made a wry face as she poured it out. [9]
Laura's few friends wrote to her or came and talked with her, and pleaded with her to retire while it was yet time, and not attempt to face the gathering storm. [5]
Refusal had been written on the lips and the face of the manager at the beginning, but at last I prevailed. [11]
He saw crisis written on every feature of the face before him. [11]
But instead of writing it clown, the man merely stared at him, while the fat creases in his face deepened and deepened. [9]
Mr Brass, after writhing about, in a great many strange attitudes, and often twisting his face and eyes into an expression like that which is usually produced by eating gooseberries very early in the season, was by this time awake also. [12]
The man moaned, writhed a little, and his face came into the moonlight. [5]
The hands were wrinkled; the face was cold; the body was wet: the man was drowned and dead. [11]
But when the wrapper was taken off the clay figures, he uttered a low snarl, and his flushed face turned pale. [10]
Sobbing bitterly, she wrapped her face in her veil, as though to protect herself from storm and chill. [10]
When Smith returned wounded to Jamestown, he was physically in no condition to face the situation. [4]
Your fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed," said an infantryman, wiping the mud off his face with his sleeve. [2]
The old man would not look into the empty room where he had last seen his son alive; he turned his face away and hurried by the door. [8]
She swore she would never see Mr. Bentley again, she couldn't face him. [9]
Then, penniless, he would have to face Mona again; and what would come of that he could not see, would not try to see. [11]
Sellers's face, and would have given the world, the next moment, if he could have spared her that. [5]
And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
He said it would be happiness enough to look upon her face once more--it would be almost too much happiness when to it was added the fact that she would bring messages with her that were fresh from Louise's lips. [5]
But this is worse than ever, and she will lie for hours with her face turned to the wall, and not even Antoinette can arouse her. [9]
Kozlovski's face looked worn--he too had evidently not slept all night. [2]
Her face looked worn; there was a hectic spot on each cheek and dark circles round the eyes. [11]
How thin and worn he was, and how large the eyes were in the face grown hollow with suffering! [11]
Ephum's face was working with excitement. [9]
The Citizen Quartermaster wore his hair long in the backwoods fashion; he had a keen, pale face and sunken eyes. [9]
The senator's face wore a look of concern which could not possibly be misinterpreted. [9]
And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre. [2]
Passionate as his words were, his manner was strangely quiet, but his white and glistening face and his burning eyes showed how deep was his anger. [11]
A messenger carried word to Szczepanik in the pavilion, and one could see the distressed amazement in his face as he listened to the tale. [5]
At his last word Dingan, who had been standing abstractedly listening, as it were, swung round on him with a muttered oath, and the skin of his face appeared to tighten. [11]
He heard the word but faintly, for her face was still turned away from him. [9]
Begorra, 'tis a wondher ye wuddent wash yereselves," he added, making a face, "wid muddy wather to be had for the askin'. [9]
Soon the fat woman who has a fruit-stand at the gate is sure to come waddling along, her beaming face making a sort of illumination in the autumn scenery, and sit down near me. [4]
However, the elder woman was sturdy and determined, and sixty years of age; while Melissa feared nothing, and thought herself sufficiently protected when she had arranged her kerchief so as to hide her face from curious eyes. [10]
No man or woman could look into his face, take his hand, sit by his side, without feeling that he was as dependable as the stars in their courses. [9]
He must have witnessed something very terrible, for his face was as pale as death, and his usually confident and swaggering manner had given place to a stricken and care-worn air. [10]
There was no withstanding that cold, still face, that unwavering eye. [11]
That movement being without result, with a shade of disappointment on his face, he felt in his left vest pocket. [5]
Dolokhov walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face. [2]
When he was within twenty paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling tenderness and ecstasy such as he had never before known. [2]
It is only within the past few years that our colleges and universities have begun to teach modern economics, social science and psychology--and this in the face of opposition from trustees. [9]
She said granny-aunt's withered old face had two red spots come to it, as if she had been painting her cheeks from a pink saucer. [6]
You, there, Muroc, with your charcoal face, who was it walk thirty miles in the dead of winter to bring a doctor to your wife, eh? [11]
How lovingly and with what enthusiastic reverence Ottavio was now gazing up into the face of his imperial father-in-law, and with what grateful fervour, as the youngest Knight of the Fleece, he kissed his hand! [10]
Her eyes, wet with unheeded tears, had never left Mr. Bentley's face. [9]
The countess looked with timid horror at her son's eager, excited face as he said this. [2]
There he is, with the whiskers and the tall hat and the comfortable face, which wears already a look of gubernatorial dignity and power. [9]
The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
The wooden clock with the round face and quaint landscape below--the family's most cherished heirloom--though long familiar, was not so bad; but the two yellowed engravings on the wall offended her. [9]
And the gentleman with the pink face, whom she is entertaining--" "Is my husband," said Honora, smiling. [9]
And then--she awoke with the light shining in her face, and barely had time to dress before the conductor was calling out "Jersey City. [9]
We are now, with the help of our allies, striving to banish these things from the face of the earth. [9]
He seemed pleased with the finery of his garments, which exhaled a subtle odor of spikenard new to his senses; for the eyes in his handsome face sparkled brilliantly. [10]
All at once, with the effort, blood spurted from his mouth into the other's face. [11]
His eyes filled with tears, and he bent as tenderly as a father might over the pale face, and pressed a gentle kiss on the bloodless lips of the senseless youth. [10]
His face flushed with sudden desire to laugh, then it paled in dumb astonishment. [11]
Murat's face beamed with stupid satisfaction as he listened to "Monsieur de Bal-macheve. [2]
His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. [2]
Bent-Anat's face glowed with scarlet color, while her, brother went on to explain. [10]
His face lighted with relief at sight of me. [9]
Her face shone with rapturous joy. [2]
His face beamed with pleasure, and there was so much open admiration in his eyes that Margaret, conscious of it to her heart's core, feared that her aunt would notice it. [4]
Then he turned with pale face and gaunt look to Michael Clones. [11]
As often occurs with old men, it was only after some seconds that the impression produced by Prince Andrew's face linked itself up with Kutuzov's remembrance of his personality. [2]
Jim was sitting with Nancy on his knee, her head against his shoulder, Sally at his side, her face alight with some inner joy. [11]
At first, bursting with mystery, she could do no more than sit and look in Guida's face. [11]
Charley was pleased with my comparing the face of the small Ethiop known to his household as "Tines" to a huckleberry with features. [6]
Only Pierre sat with masterful stillness, his eyes never moving from the face of the player; his arms folded; his feet firmly wedded to the floor. [11]
He had been with Lyon at Wilson's Creek, and he had a sad story to tell of how he found poor Richter, lying stark on that bloody field, with a smile of peace upon his face. [9]

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