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Example sentences for "upturned face"

  • She stood entranced, gazing at the stage with eager, upturned face.

  • Morag often sat on it in these days, listening with eager, upturned face to Kirsty's solemn reading of the book she loved.

  • De Coray's brow cleared, though he looked doubtfully into the puckered, upturned face, as if still suspicious.

  • The late sunlight filtering through the dirt of the window fell upon the tall figure of a girl and lighted an upturned face, and I saw tears glistening on the long lashes.

  • He took her hand in his and looked down into her upturned face.

  • Mrs. Mandeville's only answer was to stoop and kiss the boy's upturned face.

  • In the heart of the flames he saw a picture of an upturned face, of a pair of darkly grey eyes gazing earnestly into his.

  • There was something very bewitching in Peggy's upturned face, in the unwonted earnestness of her eyes, and the sweetly serious curve of the parted lips.

  • It is all right; he is quite gentle," the girl called down the ladder reassuringly to the astonished, upturned face of Mr Musgrave.

  • My gaze rested questioningly upon De Noyan's upturned face, and saw it ghost-like in lack of color, drawn and haggard.

  • I realized nothing except that ribbon of a path, the need of haste, the white, upturned face in my arms.

  • As I concluded she merely gazed more closely into Madame's upturned face, speaking as though communing with herself.

  • The sunlight beat down upon his upturned face.

  • At this point a large apple dropped suddenly upon his upturned face and, having struck him smartly between the eyes, fell with a thud to the ground.

  • The sunlight streamed down upon his upturned face.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being present; brass cannon; colored eyes; either case; finned fishes; half cupfuls; half wide; little heart; make themselves; mixing bowl; open shame; opened unto; present himself; probate judge; said again; seal meat; sure about; upturned face; what the; will raise; will then; you now