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Example sentences for "face and"

  • But I got ahead of them and entered the garden before them, and when my master saw me in this state, I smiting my face and saying, "Well away!

  • In any case, this person is handsome of face and maketh me hope for better treatment from him than from my brute of a Badawi.

  • Then she smiled in my face and said, "O my cousin, Allah grant thee enjoyment of that which He hath given thee!

  • In modern days Fellah women stain their veils (face and head), kerchiefs and shirts with indigo; and some colour their forearms to the elbow.

  • But when she saw me she flew sharply in my face and I was frightened by her and thrown back; so I tumbled from the ladder-top to the ground and brake both knee-caps.

  • I shame to say it, but I rolled over on my face and wept.

  • At last the rain in my face grew like a water-torture, always dropping, and I half turned my face and pressed it to the ground.

  • This also they yeasaid without delay, and the Alderman declared Stone-face and Hall-face the helpers of Face-of-god in this business.

  • Then the throng set up a shout, and made way a little, so that Hall- face and Gold-mane and the others could get to the door.

  • And becoming conscious of the length of his reverie, he grasped the arms of his chair, heaved at his own bulk, in an effort to rise, growing redder and redder in face and neck.

  • And she bent her full moon of a face and went, with her apron crumpled as apron had never been, and tears in her eyes.

  • When she had watched his square, black figure pass through the outer gate, busily rebuttoning those shining black gloves, she went upstairs and washed her face and hands.

  • Now I have a cousin, the son of my father's brother, who is fairer than I in face and higher of rank and better of breeding; and he is the most intimate of Allah's creatures with Isaac.

  • Quoth Joseph to his brethren), 'Take this my inner garment and throw it on my father's face and he shall recover his sight.

  • By Allah, there is no good in thee, O black of hue and heart, O foul of face and nature!

  • Quoth Joseph to his brethren) 'Take this my shirt and throw it over my father's face and he will recover his sight' .

  • How many proud painted dames would have fawned and smiled, and how many spendthrift blockheads done me lip-service to my face and cursed me in their hearts, while I turned that ten thousand pounds into twenty!

  • The colour flooded up into the maiden's face and neck at the action, but still more embarrassing to her was the awkward pause which ensued, as they set out on their return.

  • Fownes turned to her, with the threat gone from his face and attitude.

  • The two horses came up close to me, looking with great earnestness upon my face and hands.

  • But before this, they had daubed my face and both my hands with a sort of ointment, very pleasant to the smell, which, in a few minutes, removed all the smart of their arrows.

  • She looked into her lover's face and saw in it a look of commiseration and perplexity.

  • Sonya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran after Natasha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face and light, joyous steps.

  • Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked at the beautiful Helene with her radiant face and at the red, broad, and happy though uneasy face of Pierre.

  • She read this in Tikhon's face and in that of Prince Vasili's valet, who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot water.

  • He looked gloomily in Rostov's face and said: "I am witing to her.

  • Cold clammy drops lay on my face and hands.

  • A crimson flush deluged my face and neck, my hand trembled and the locket fell into Hortense's lap.

  • Of course I thought of going under cover of the night, uncle, and surely it would not be such a difficult matter to darken my face and hands?

  • Dorfling's suicide made a profound impression on Wilhelm, and for months he was haunted by the vision of that motionless form with its white face and blood-stained breast.

  • If she laughed in my face and called me a fool and a lout, I should feel I deserved it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "face and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anal opening; better word; broken voice; face down; face downward; face downwards; face fell; face from; face full; face grew; face page; face the; face them; face value; face was; face with; faced man; faced round; faced woman; half natural; journey distant; music and; sweet girl; thin coating; this world; with instructions