Faces

Examples

• She was rather surprised at Dr. Donaldson's early visit, and perplexed by the anxious faces of husband and child. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I must part with you for my whole life: I must begin a new existence among strange faces and strange scenes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She ran along the sea beach, believing the old boat was theer; and calling out to us to turn away our faces, for she was a-coming by. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Soon, from a score of the great windows, flames burst forth, and the stone faces awakened, stared out of fire. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Handsome faces--eyes particularly, answered Meg, smiling to herself in the dark. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The snow blew in our faces so we could hardly see. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Tell all the first form to rise up and direct their faces to the wall. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Their very faces are not dissimilar--a pair of human falcons--and dry, direct, decided both. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He appeared to me as one among many other men, none of whose faces I could plainly discern. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But busy uninteresting joyous faces brought back despair to my heart. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Their veils were down, and hid their faces from me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women's faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and, observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile himself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Some of them have large, lustrous eyes, but none of them have pretty faces. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The women's faces, as she paused interrogatively on the threshold, were a study in hesitation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• For a moment it was a strange face, and then it was all the faces. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Once as he passed close to a troop truck and the lights flashed he saw their faces fixed and sad in the sudden light. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Faces sometimes tell truth; and that was unquestionably the thought in Sarah's mind, as she sat down again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• School children amuse themselves by reflecting sunbeams from a mirror into their companions' faces. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• For, they spoke as they crouched or lay, without seeing one another's faces. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I saw the faces of the first two. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He came out, looked up at them--the pale cluster of faces--and smiled good courage to them, before he locked the factory-door. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He could glean nothing from their faces; they might as well have been of stone. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Brothers, turn your faces to the south, and come to me in the street of many noises, which leads down to the muddy river. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And the Brahmins knelt and hid their faces in their robes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I know the doctor must be right, Oliver, because I dream so much of Heaven, and Angels, and kind faces that I never see when I am awake. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• As I gained my feet the therns lowered their wicked rifles, their faces distorted in mingled chagrin, consternation, and alarm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The tide,' cried the murderer, as he staggered back into the room, and shut the faces out, 'the tide was in as I came up. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• We do not hear of his smacking the faces or wringing the wrists of recalcitrant or unresponsive disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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