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Example sentences for "his face"

  • The animation died out of his face, but in his eyes there was a restless light, a look of apprehension and suspense.

  • He was sitting so, his face shaded by his hand, when the Boston lawyer saw him from the siding at White River Junction.

  • Tall came into the inclosure, and leapt off, his face tragic as Morton's after the battle of Shrewsbury.

  • Troy threw the coin dexterously across the front plot and over the fence towards Gabriel, who shunned it in its fall, his face turning to an angry red.

  • There he stood, his face to the south-east, upright as a column, his cap in his hand.

  • His mouth closed, and a frown came on his face.

  • Finding the lad's impersonal, deliberate gaze of an artist on his face, he got into a fury.

  • He stood unable to move or speak, looking at her, his face half-smiling with wonder.

  • His face quivered as he looked at his mother.

  • Again he found the youth with his cool, critical gaze fixed on his face.

  • His complexion had got pale: his face, at the lower part was covered, to my great surprise and disappointment, with a curly brown beard and mustachios.

  • I looked where he looked--and I saw his thought in his face.

  • His face was as sharp as a hatchet, and the skin of it was as yellow and dry and withered as an autumn leaf.

  • His voice was not quite in such a perfect state of discipline as his face.

  • Though he didn't acknowledge it, I saw that I had made him uneasy, plainly enough, in his face.

  • He looked at me more directly, and the expression of his face, graver now, struck me as the most beautiful I had ever found in it.

  • This gave me, straight from my vision of his face--SUCH a face!

  • The expression of this sentiment was fiercely written in his face, and stood thus revealed to Roxana by a white glare of lightning which turned the somber dusk of the room into dazzling day at that moment.

  • His face began to take on an ugly look, and presently he said, with a snarl: "Well, what could I do?

  • All the blood sank suddenly out of his face; his hand quaked, and he gazed at the polished surface before him with the glassy stare of a corpse.

  • There is between these two no more intelligent connection than links the paint Mr. Sargent puts on canvas and the paint Mr. Dockstader puts on his face.

  • To quote an author to his face," lamented Mr. Sheridan, "is bribery as gross as it is efficacious.

  • I asked him this, and kept my eye on his face.

  • She turned her head to make a fleeting survey of his face, as if the point of view took her by surprise.

  • His face, shrouded in a high-growing, dust-coloured beard, invited no attention.

  • Rokoff's eyes narrowed, and the red of mortification flushed out the pallor of his face.

  • She would have liked to have flaunted the fact in his face, but she dared not.

  • Then he dropped upon his haunches and buried his face in his hands.

  • Up he bounded with the blood streaming down his face, and running into our half-finished stables he seized a hatchet, and with a bellow of rage rushed at the horse.

  • Yet, to my astonishment, the patient never flinched nor moved a muscle of his face, and on my inquiring afterwards, he assured me that the proceeding was absolutely painless, a remark which was corroborated by the surgeon.

  • His face was so peaceful and smiling that I could hardly have recognised the worried, fever-worn features of yesterday.

  • The guest responded to her tone by a smile, which did not half light up his face.

  • Stay a moment, if you please," said the Judge, again beaming sunshine out of his face.

  • She was prepared for the relief she read in his face when he saw that she had at least brought back Anne back with her.

  • His eyes were not keen, his face marked, his hands flabby.

  • Drouet, the first shade of misunderstanding showing in his face.

  • His face was a very neutral thing to contemplate.

  • His face, never easily controlled by him, expressed all the perplexity and disturbance which he felt.

  • There was on his face a strange look, and I thought that so might a man look when he had died under the torture.

  • In the first place his red beard, ragged and untrimmed, hid much of his face, and his hair was long; but the most surprising change in him was his extreme thinness.

  • There was a real distaste in his face, and yet it was the face of a coarse and sensual man.

  • His face fell, and he pouted his lips like a scolded child.

  • I do not know that it was attractive, but it lit up his face, changing the expression, which was generally sombre, and gave it a look of not ill-natured malice.

  • And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

  • And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

  • And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

  • What observation mad'st thou in this case Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?

  • His face was as the heav'ns, and therein stuck A sun and moon, which kept their course and lighted The little O, the earth.

  • But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him; His face I know not.

  • His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his face; if your lordship be in't, as I believe you are, you must have the patience to hear it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    corned beef; his face; his father; his house; his own; his servant; his son; hissing sound; historic interest; historical character; historical criticism; historical documents; historical events; historical evidence; historical facts; historical fiction; historical literature; historical materialism; historical point; historical research; historical romance; historical writing; history tells; sweet queen; this young; would naturally