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Example sentences for "face with"

  • Up it sprang, and he was face to face with Fancy.

  • The witch laid down her knife and potato, and then poured into Fancy's ear a long and detailed list of directions, glancing up from the corner of her eye into Fancy's face with an expression of sinister humour.

  • In so doing--it was like going suddenly into cold water--I found myself face to face with a prim little old maid.

  • For you may plump into a cave among the rocks, and find yourself face to face with a wild boar, or see a crooked viper slither across the road.

  • Sitting down, I covered my face with my hands as if to hide it more effectually than it could be hidden by night and the forest shadows.

  • Whether or not she understood me, she showed no disposition to go into hiding again, and continued silently regarding me with a look that seemed to express pleasure at finding herself at last thus suddenly brought face to face with me.

  • Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

  • Sick with desire, I turned away and, sitting on a root of the tree, covered my face with my hands.

  • The doctoress appeared just as we had risen from breakfast, and Heda, turning round, came face to face with her.

  • This might or might not be true; at any rate I could find no possible way of coming face to face with him, or even of getting a message to his ear.

  • You have not got my lamented friend to deal with now--you are face to face with Fosco!

  • But the instant Mrs. Catherick's name passed my lips he pushed by the Count roughly, and placed himself face to face with me under the open daylight.

  • While I was still in Italy I was chosen secretary, and all the members of that time, who were brought face to face with my president, were brought face to face also with me.

  • God forbid a sensitive, refined spirit like yours should ever come face to face with a Commissioner in Bankruptcy; these men get all the sweetness knocked right out of them.

  • And turning about he found himself face to face with a handsome sunburnt youth, somewhat fatted, arrayed in the finest of fine raiment, and sporting about a sovereign's worth of flowers in his buttonhole.

  • He felt as if he had been face to face with death.

  • Here I was face to face with Nature, and listened for response to the anxious questionings of my restless heart.

  • There was no danger now of her eluding him; but the grave question arose, what was he to do when he stood face to face with her.

  • Elsie looked up in her father's face with an expression which he knew but too well.

  • She looked up into my face with a rueful expression.

  • She did not withdraw her hand, and she looked up into my face with tears on her cheeks and I read in her eyes the thanks her lips could not voice.

  • Nobs braced himself with all four feet to keep from slipping into the scuppers and looked up into my face with a questioning whine.

  • She had the sensation of standing for the first time face to face with one of the sterner miseries of life.

  • There was a sound of some one moving, and when she had taken another step, Mallard himself, pipe in mouth, came face to face with her.

  • Just as they came again into the Sala Rotonda, they found themselves face to face with Miriam.

  • On the following morning, as she and her daughters were going out, they came face to face with a gentleman who was announcing to the servant his wish to see Miss Doran.

  • GUIDO What, Beatrice, have I not Stood face to face with beauty?

  • There it is, I cannot be beside you, cannot breathe The air you breathe; I cannot any more Stand face to face with beauty, which unnerves My shaking heart, and makes my desperate hand Fail of its purpose.

  • He proved to be Vilain, so that, when he was brought face to face with me, I was much less surprised than he affected to be.

  • With wrists pinioned behind him, he had been hoisted aboard the English ship, and in the waist of her he had stood for a moment face to face with an old acquaintance--our chronicler, Lord Henry Goade.

  • He found himself face to face with a servant, who shrank before him, staring as those in the courtyard had stared.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black silk; both continents; evident truths; face and; face brightened; face down; face downwards; face fell; face grew; face looked; face was; face with; faced about; faced gentleman; faced man; faced tumbler; for the former things are passed; having fallen; know already; lamb chops; lighted match; narrow strip; not think; other gods; poisonous snakes; walk along