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Example sentences for "face wore"

  • The ayah's face wore a bitter look, though she held her head high and went about her duties in silence.

  • David Morpeth's face wore a bright smile now, very different from his sad stern mien of the previous evening.

  • The little model's face wore a half-caught-out, half-stolid look.

  • Miltoun looked up sharply; the little man's face wore no signs of understanding.

  • Had she been more observant she would have noticed that Priscilla's face wore no smile, but a look of anxiety, bordering on distress.

  • She was aware that the girls were all watching her, and though she did not raise her eyes, she knew instinctively that Priscilla's face wore a look of apprehension.

  • Escorval, Lecoq's face wore such an expression of consternation that the doorkeeper could not help laughing.

  • The sick man's face wore a comical expression of envy.

  • But Crystal's face wore no answering smile--she looked a little disturbed.

  • Janet was smiling, but the housekeeper's face wore a puzzled expression; her new mistress bewildered her.

  • Johnson's face wore a look of puzzled consternation; he saw no reason for levity.

  • Castro's face wore an air of candour as he replied: "To tell the SeƱor Sheriff I know where ees Ramerrez.

  • The farmer's face wore a very uncomfortable look, and he was evidently by no means pleased with his wife's prognostications.

  • The boy's face wore a respectful look as he said: "Say, you didn't tell me you was one of de actors.

  • But from close packing in his valise both were creased up in such a manner that Squire Marlowe and his wife shuddered, and Percy's face wore an amused and supercilious smile.

  • Brian's face wore a curiously restrained expression, which gave it a look of sternness.

  • Each member of the party was more or less absorbed in his own thoughts, and Brian's face wore a look of stern determination which seemed to impose quietude upon the others.

  • The Prior's face wore an expression of mild triumph.

  • No solution of the difficulty can be offered which has positive value, but it is perhaps worth considering the facts in the light of modern ideas.

  • An interesting case in this connection is afforded by the internodal cells of the Characeae, which possess only vegetative functions.

  • Yet he has done for man something like what Agassiz did for glaciers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after saying; face again; face against; face and; face brightened; face downwards; face fell; face flushed; face from; face like; face looked; face the; face them; face with; faced gentleman; faced round; faced woman; great people; late hours; long residence; moment only; occasion should; party question; regular troops; stronger than; sure enough