Attempts were made by Congress and the states to compel people to accept the notes at face value; but these were like attempts to make water flow uphill.
Some rascally speculators had profited from the funding of the debt at face value, but that was only an incident in the restoration of public credit.
Indeed, if their platforms are to be accepted at face value, the Greenbackers believed that the entire government had passed out of the hands of the people.
Oh, I do not know what to say to you, only that you must take what I say, as you have taken me--at face value.
XXI-- FACE VALUE It was evening of the same day--and there came a knock at the outer door of the cottage porch.
The amount of the actual cost of stored articles converted according to current prices thereof into public loan-bonds at face value, except in the case of articles which had been purchased with borrowed money.
So that she did not obtrude herself too obviously upon their notice, the police suffered her; so that she gave the underworld no reason for complaint, the underworld accepted her at face value as one of its own!
Gypsy Nan was accepted at face value as just Gypsy Nan; and, if that were so, the idea of playing up a natural wifely anxiety on Danglar's behalf could not be used unless Shluker gave her a lead in that direction.
They would take her at face value--as one who not only knew how to use that revolver, but as one who would not hesitate an instant to do so.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "face value" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
