But their tremulous and whirling motion in the sunbeams is oftentimes sufficient to disturb and break a sound.
The purple-faced members of the faculty were hanging on to their own safety-valves to keep from exploding--all save Professor Litton, who felt that his hearing must be defective.
IV The road came pouring down from the wooded hills, and the housefaced the pond as before.
Serina was as dismal as any wife is when she is faced with the prospect of having her man hanging about the house all day.
That moment the phantom faced him; and Pierre saw Enceladus no more; but on the Titan's armless trunk, his own duplicate face and features magnifiedly gleamed upon him with prophetic discomfiture and woe.
A plain-faced Queen of Spain dwells not in half the glory a beautiful milliner does.
It was now seen that unless the Confederates fought their way to independence, there was no hope of a favorable termination of the war, and this conclusion was courageously faced by General Lee.
He faced round upon them, ready to defend this fancied talisman of his power.
More acutely than ever he was conscious of the horror of his room: he felt his loneliness and wretchedness: but he faced them.
In a few days they were faced with their utter ruin: the loss of a dear one, the loss of their fortune, their position, their public esteem, and the desertion of their friends.
Faced with the empty hall, Christophe consoled himself bravely with Handel's quip: "Splendid!
You are in the same state of mind as that of the knights of the Middle Ages, when, for the first time, they found themselves faced with gunpowder.
Betty Randall was a quiet, sweet-faced girl of fifteen, and Marjorie liked her at once.
Inside was the miniature of a merry-faced girl of twelve--the same face that had looked at Marjorie from the photograph in Mammy's cabin.
In her flight she darted by two other figures without even seeing them; a trembling, white-faced girl clinging nervously to an older woman, whose face was scarcely less white than her own.
Lulu Bell, a pretty, bright-faced girl of fourteen, as she and her friends greeted Marjorie in the restaurant.
It was actually from an island of complete calm that part of him saw the medical students rising dismayed and white-faced from their seats.
He grasped her by the shoulders and turned her so she faced his unblinking eyes.
The task was one calling rather for a soldier than a statesman; but Mr. Jefferson faced it with courage, and on the whole with success.
He shrank with almost feminine repugnance from censure and turmoil, but when the occasion demanded it, hefaced even these with perfect courage and resolution.
Joe turned and faced his companion, and, hunching his bent knees into his arms, looked squarely into his eyes.
He faced them, a tall, awesome figure in his long, full dressing-gown.
In another moment he had her round, and as she faced the side of the valley where the raider had disappeared, he slashed her cruelly with his spurs.
The girl's hand was on the door-latch; she hesitated a moment and finally faced about.
For the rest the house faced out on to the prairie, and the verandahed front overlooked the barns, corrals, and outhouses.
And the girl sprang from her seat instantly and faced the window.
Suddenly he turned and faced him, and, to his chagrin, discovered that the other was still intent on the mare he was riding.
The pale-faced exception was a thin, sick-looking fellow with deep hollows under his eyes, and lips as ashen as a corpse.
The task of mounting to the ledge was no light one, but Tresler faced it without a second thought.
And the marvel of it was that he faced accurately, first toward Tresler, then toward Jake.
Ranks eyed the sad-faced man with an unfriendly look.
His duty had been to investigate, but he also thought of a sad-faced girl, friendless and alone, weeping her heart out in the midst of her own home.
Nor was any more talk possible, for at that moment there came the steady tap, tap, of the blind man's stick down the passage, and the two men faced the door expectantly.
He faced from one to the other with a perplexed frown, and as his red eyes fell finally upon the foreman, that individual's whole expression was instantly transformed to one of confusion.
Nevertheless the fact still faced them that their rivals were two runs ahead.
Shut up, Redhead," commanded the scar-faced man, adding insult to injury.
But he never thought of retreating, and faced the bully with an outward calm that he was very far from feeling.
We've got a couple of fellows up at Rockledge that I'd like to see you handle just as you faced down Ap this morning.
But Bobby beat him the last time he faced him and I guess he can do it again.
Bobby, it was Tom Hicksley who picked up the ball and faced the batter.
In the scramble for seats when they had first boarded the train, Bobby and Fred had had the luck to get the seat that faced forward.
The lithe limbs of the boys gave them an advantage over their heavier companions, and they were soon on the heels of the tramps, who turned snarling and faced them.
When the door was at last cautiously opened she caught a glimpse of the housekeeper, the discreet and red-faced Mrs. Botz.
David faced about; he got down off the chair, and he turned his accusing eyes upon Mother.
Come this way, guv'nor," replied the brown-faced one.
He had been regarding the couple who faced him benevolently and indulgently, and he now raised his hat to them.
The leader, a smiling-faced fellow, touched his cap respectfully, and grinned from ear to ear.
In five minutes he learnt that cut-and-dried codes are no good when the hard facts of every-day life have to be faced and that expediency is a factor in human existence which has its moral values.
At the sound of his hurrying steps she turned and faced him, and he saw in the light of a cottage lamp that she still looked troubled and perplexed.
The white-faced bull, meantime, was again trying to thrust his massive shoulders beneath the lower bar.
The white-faced bull," read Ted over his shoulder.
Then a murmur rippled through the loungers that encircled the corral, as the white-faced bull was called for.
Under foot were white violets and wee, monkey-faced mimulus, with occasionally a rare scarlet monkey-flower.
The Demon drew from his pocket something that resembled an open-faced watch, having a narrow, flexible band attached to it.
So he stood alone and faced the enemy, calmly knocking them over as fast as they came near.
Signor Corradini insisted that there were worse things for a nation than war, and that the occasional necessity for resort to the "dread arbitrament" must be boldly faced by any nation worthy of the name.
The rest of the second faced Adrianople, while the first corps operated to the south and east.
After the crushing defeats of the ex-Shah's two forces and his flight, Russia was still faced by a constitutional regime in Persia--and by a somewhat solidified and more confident government and people at that.
The new Turkish government faced revolts in Albania and other provinces.
Isobel took her place next to the table at which Crawford sat and faced the others.
The one who had been introduced as Abrahim el Bakr, an open-faced man whose constant smiling seemed to take a full ten years off what must have been his age, explained.
He faced the bellowing mob which surrounded the Tuileries.
Italy was in a condition of political chaos; the banks of the Rhine were running blood where the Austrian armies faced the gallant Frenchmen under the leadership of Moreau.
Who was the red-faced young man that seemed to know you, and stared so?
As usual, the pit was full of officers, and between the acts they all rose, as usual, and faced the boxes, which they perused through their lorgnettes till the bell rang for the curtain to rise.
He knew he tried very hard and that sometimes a tired mother or a sad-faced child looked up at him with a smile that made the service seem worth while.
She made her first appearance in the streets upon something very like a Newfoundland dog, guarded from the rear by Jim, and from the fore by a white-faced clown who was thought to be all the funnier because he twisted his neck so much.
The door opened softly and the young pastor stood looking down at the picture of the frail, white-faced child, and her black, determined captor.
Beside a shabby trunk in the women's dressing tent sat a young, wistful-faced girl, chin in hand, unheeding the chatter of the women about her or the picturesque disarray of the surrounding objects.
White-faced clowns and gaily attired acrobats crowded around Polly and the pastor.
It was built of travertine, faced with marble, and decorated with statues.
The Colosseum was of travertine faced with marble.
And having delivered this touching eulogy on the late Captain Kendall, Cappy roused himself and faced Skinner.
All Hands And Feet realized he faced a desperate situation, and as Matt stepped in he ducked and leaped upon his antagonist.
Then he closed the door again andfaced Matt Peasley.
Matt studied the pattern of the office rug a minute and then faced Cappy bravely.
To ship as a foremast hand and rise to captain would be a proud record; so Matt throttled his pride and faced the future with confidence, and a stomach quite filled with very good beef stew.
It was his habit to close his eyes and sit very still whenever he faced a tussle with a tough proposition.
He was a fat-faced low comedian King of the Rats, assisted by other rats, and he ate a magic radish with side-splitting pantomime till he became a man once more.
Whether the granite-faced reservoir and two-mile tunnel that supplies Hong-Kong with water be worth seeing I cannot tell.
As the steamer came up the river we were aware of first one elephant and then another hard at work in timber-yards that faced the shore.
Occasionally a woman crept in to one of these rooms to pray, but nearly all the company stayed in the courtyard; but those that faced the figures prayed more zealously than the others, so I judged that their troubles were the greater.
Mount slowly and with dignity, and go in swinging procession, by the marble-faced border of one of the most lovely lakes on earth.
Two gaudily painted fishes faced each other over the arch, and there was little except glaring colour ornamentation visible.
It's better fun than any temple with a fat-faced Buddha in the middle.
Hard by this place the road or rut turned by great gardens, very cool and pleasant, full of tombs and black-faced monkeys who quarrelled among the tombs, and shut in from the sun by gigantic banians and mango trees.
Look at the rajbahars facedwith stone and fitted with sluices; look at the water-wheels and,--phew!
On the slopes of the foot-hills each drop between the levels was neatly riveted with unmortared stones, and the edges of the watercuts were facedin like manner.
Coarse rubble in concrete faced with stone makes the walls moderately strong.
In another moment, they had faced about and were on their way back to town.
She had been prepared to recognize one of her friends, but the smile faded from her lips; she put down the candle quickly and faced about.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
