Everybody scanned their faces as they came in; Chatelet was smiling, M.
The intoxication of the poetry was upon him; he was far away from the hateful world, striving to render in speech the music that filled his soul, seeing the faces about him through a cloudy haze.
The lower part of other faces is the most expressive of mirth; not so with Dr.
But he was cheered by the light which beamed out daily more brightly from the faces of his little flock of pupils, and supported by the intellectual power which they manifested from period to period of their course.
Their faces were upturned to the blaze, all eyes wide open, all lips parted, all steps arrested.
I have seen a single clause of a short sentence call up an instantaneous flush on the hundreds of hardfaces turned to the preacher; and it is no wonder to me that the widow and orphan are cherished by those who hear his prayers for them.
Both of them looked tired and worn and their faces reflected the strain they had been under since the escape of the prisoner from the police station.
As they swung over the cove Bob could see the upturnedfaces of fishermen as they stared at the unexpected visitor.
Far down on the sidewalk were little faces of distorted people; far up at the steeple-top were legs kicking at ropes.
I always feel that a man who faces death unflinchingly for a fairly long time shows greater heroism, even though death be driven back, than another man who suffers some sudden taking off with no choice left him.
And the air in the men's faces was like the breath of a furnace!
Another day he said: "A man gets more confidence every time he faces an angry lion and comes out all right.
And as my glance of greeting to these old friends of mine traveled down one side of the table and up the other, it might have been setting those faces on fire, so brightly did they flare.
I watched the people in the throng of carriages--hundreds of faces all turned toward him, all showing that mingled admiration, envy and awe which humanity gives its exalted great.
Around the kitchen sat a row of young men and women, and the open sitting-room doorway was crowded with the faces of non-dancing guests who wanted to watch the sets.
Now and then he shifted his gaze from the faces before him to hers.
That's settled and there's no use making faces over the notion.
The road leading from the house to the barn was illuminated with colored lanterns, which threw weird tints over the faces of the masqueraders as they sped past.
With blanched faces and trembling forms, they obeyed the order and begged for mercy.
Occasionally a little group of two or three women with sad faces will pick their way about, looking for the morgues.
Fathers pressed their faces against the windows and endeavored to see something, they knew not what, that would tell them in a measure of the dreadful fate that their loved ones had met with.
As the people passed they were hurried along by an attendant and gazed at the uncovered faces seeking to identify them.
In it are the faces of my husband and little girl.
They stare at him as at a madman, and their hesitating feet linger in the valley of the shadow of death, and the shadow swiftly darkens, and the everlasting hills veil their faces with rain and mist before the scene that greets them.
There in that terrible rampage were brothers, sisters, wives and husbands, and from the mountain could be seen the panic-stricken marks in the faces of those who were struggling between life and death.
Other women utter broken words of thankfulness and go away, their faces wreathed in smiles.
It stands twenty-three miles from Croton dam, and has cut-stone faces filled between with concrete.
With faces turned toward their leader, they waited his word.
Aaron King looked from the letter in his hand to the faces of his two friends, in consternation.
As he goes about, he is constantly on the look-out for new faces or figures that are of interest to him--or, that may be used by him to make pictures of interest.
The snow beat into their faces and eyes, almost blinding them and wholly stopping their chatter.
By this time the blizzard was at its height, and it was blowing directly in their faces as they advanced.
That which was stollen was said to bee given, when 'twas proved to their faces that 'twas stollen, and they were made to acknowledge their offence.
When next she sees them, let her notice if they have their backs or faces towards her.
The three faces were very close together, and Theresa felt the hastiness of her mother's kiss and the half-unwilling urging of her hands.
He thought of Monday, and dreaded meeting cold faces and hard, staring eyes.
I like to think of ragged little children putting their dirty faces against dirty window panes, and gloating over masses of your grandfather's sweets.
She thought all the trees had faces that looked kindly on her.
Sitting in a low chair, with folded hands on her knee, and looking younger than she was, she listened, smiled, and answered quietly while she studied the faces ringing her.
The two faces differ chiefly in the subtle smile that plays about the lips of Comedy, and in the slight contraction of the brows of Tragedy.
Oh, dearest hands, and mouths most dear to me, And forms and noble faces of my sons!
While dragging it up, Ready observed that the occupants were both women: their faces were tattooed all over; otherwise they were young, and might have been good-looking.
There was also a significant moodiness in their gaunt faceswhich suggested that they had felt the pinch of adversity.
Devine glanced at them both a trifle sharply, but there was nothing in their faces that gave him a clue to their thoughts.
For Phyllis had become delirious, and raved ceaselessly of the horrible faces grinning and mowing around her bed; of the recent troubles, begging pitifully to be taken home and laid in her own big, pretty room where her head would not ache so.
Tom asked me what was wrong, and I told him nothing, but that I was tired of seeing the same faces all the time.
Jessamy, Phyllis, and Bab were crying softly, but their faces were flushed with joy and bright with smiles.
Then she fetched plain dark cloaks for herself and Betty, with hoods to them, that their faces might not be seen, and presently they were mounted.
Thus linked they straightened themselves, and as they rose theirfaces were very near together and oh!
Morella tried to stay his charger, that he might come about and fall upon the Englishman before he could recover himself; but the brute was heady, and would not be turned till he saw the wall of faces in front of him.
These words he spoke to them in a voice that was earnest almost to passion, searching their faces the while with his quick eyes as though he would read their very hearts.
These were followed by a melancholy band of "relaxed" heretics, doomed to the fire or strangulation at the stake, and clothed in zamarras of sheepskin, painted all over with devils and the portraits of their own facessurrounded by flames.
Henry glanced round him at the great crowd who were gathered watching this scene, and saw something in their faces which caused him to agree with d'Aguilar.
There were also one or two men’s faces which he seemed to know well enough though he didn’t recall their names.
Indeed we didn’t present a neat appearance, our faces unshaven, with the traces of dried salt sprays on our smarting skins and the sleeplessness of full forty hours filming our eyes.
She finds nothing better to do than to ask the ‘Master’ why he took his inspiration for those two faces from the same model.
Your faces be clean, your eyes bright, you wear purty good clothes and I don't b'lieve you use terbacker.
Alvin with his winsome grin addressed him: "We are unlucky that our faces give us away, but it can't be helped.
Alvin and Chester, as much amused as the agent, fancied they could see the grins on the faces of several of the men on the steamer.
During those brief moments he had so plain a sight of their faces that he would have recognized them anywhere.
She opened her eyes and looked up into the facesthat were bent above her.
So they had beaten about the house during the morning under the pioneering of the villager whom they had injudiciously chosen as their guide, and now they scanned the faces of the mourners who set out on the long mountain journey.
Would you have the boldness here, before the faces of the servants of that gracious Prince, to justify your crimes by claiming for them the authority of usurpers?
In that world to which their faces were set no haunting, hurrying footsteps ever fell; no soul was yet vexed by fierce fire, no dross of budded hope was yet laid low.
He met without emotion the sea of faces upturned to his own face.
Some with pale faces and bloodshot eyes, some with rubicund complexion and laughing lips, some bantering as if at a fair, some on the ground hailing their fellows on the roofs.
Were there in the wide world of varying forms and faces a form and a face so much unlike his own as were those of the man who walked, nay, jerked along, in short, fitful paces, by his side?
Most of the young men had sampled some of old Dan's best rye and their flushed faces and unusual spirits did not result altogether from the exercise of the dance.
Their vindictive faces expressed the malignant joy they felt at the expectation of putting him to the torture.
She knew her brother and her husband would not wear anxious faces for nothing.
There was Andrew's face; the faces of his other brothers; the laughing face of his sister; the serene face of his mother.
The expression Betty saw on Clarke's face was not new to her, for she remembered having seen it on the faces of young gentlemen whom she had met at her aunt's house in Philadelphia.
The listening savages sat immovable, their faces as cold and stern as stone masks.
They let their hair grow long and wore feathers in it; they painted their faces hideously with ochre and vermilion.
The genial faces of both reflected the pleasure they felt in the enjoyment of the younger people.
Many new faces were seen in the little meeting-house.
At the mention of the sick ranger, Charley saw the men's faces light up.
The men were black with smoke and their hands and faces were blistered and scratched.
Behind us is a parapet, and beyond the parapet a fire; all that we see is the shadows thrown on the wall that faces us by figures passing along the parapet behind us; all we hear is the echo of their voices.
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