Faced

Examples

• No, I have nothing to give you instead, he said, sitting up and turning so that he faced her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Most despicable would it be to come for the sake of those sheep-faced Sunday scholars, and not for my sake or that long skeleton Moore's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Out upon you, fie upon you, Bold-faced jig! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• You are a frozen-faced . Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The cave that I faced was not one of those that I had seen from the ground, and which lay much higher, possibly a thousand feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I maintain that that 'ere song's personal to the cloth,' said the mottled-faced gentleman, interrupting it at this point. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The situation must be faced. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Resting on the cylinder was a palladium-faced pen or spring, which was attached to a mica diaphragm in a resonator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was small, gray-faced and no one handled a cape better. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• To my surprise, it was a woman who answered the summons, a large, coarse-faced, elderly woman, in an apron. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Who is that smooth-faced, animated outrage yonder in the fine clothes? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I should like to hear that same story,' said the red-faced man with the cigar. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I think we must not set down people's bad actions to their religion, said falcon-faced Mrs. Plymdale, who had been listening hitherto. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A better army, man for man, probably never faced an enemy than the one commanded by General Taylor in the earliest two engagements of the Mexican war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I don't mince words--a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer, who meant to have his son-in-law back all along. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A fresh-faced servant opened it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• None of his duels ended fatally, but he faced them with great intrepidity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Vell now,' said Sam, 'you've been a-prophecyin' away, wery fine, like a red-faced Nixon, as the sixpenny books gives picters on. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Yet the fact had better be faced: psychology has not gone far enough, its results are still too vague for our purposes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She had done my mending and was a very short dumpy, happy-faced woman with white hair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He was also urged to attack the Eastern empire by Genseric the Vandal, who was faced by an alliance of the Western and Eastern emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nothing, a short, open-faced man of about thirty-five with a cast in one eye, whom Robert Jordan had not seen before, answered. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She led me behind some boats, out of sight and hearing of the few people in the fishing-village, and then stopped, and faced me for the first time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She drew out a little gold-faced watch on an enamelled chain. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• When they're in a good humour,' interposed the dirty-faced man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• That's very extraordinary,' said the mottled-faced man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Had they faced the human sources of their problem, had they tried to think of the social evil as an answer to a human need, their researches would have been different, their remedies fruitful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She was standing quite close to me, so close that her bare arm touched mine as she finally faced Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Typist: Silvia