Face

That girl has a pretty face.

The monkey pressed its face against the railings.

It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

Why the sad face?

Children! Stop making faces at each other!

MAKE Money-wholesale U.S. stamps—buy mint stamps below face. Be a dealer. Send $1.00 for two giant catalogs, refunded first order. Von Stein, Bernardsville, N.J.

With certain exceptions for valuable stamps, dealers and many collectors are only willing to offer a percentage of face (80-90%). So instead, Lloyd took the sheets to work and posted a message asking if anyone wanted to buy sheets of old U.S. stamps at face.

Talking about buying below face, I've bought a lot of rolled coins at below face. I'm not going to pay face just to drag them to the bank and deposit them.

Shut your face!

He's always stuffing his face with chips.

I'll be out in a sec. Just let me put on my face.

Our chairman is the face of this company.

He managed to show a bold face despite his embarrassment.

As the film points out, the actor became known as “the face of Aids”.

You've got some face coming round here after what you've done.

a. 1694, John Tillotson, Preface to The Works This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.

This is a face of her that we have not seen before.

Poverty is the ugly face of capitalism.

to fly in the face of danger

to speak before the face of God

The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

It was just the usual faces at the pub tonight.

He better not show his face around here no more.

He owned several local businesses and was a face around town.

Vincent was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge—the ultimate Face.

The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback.

The face of the cliff loomed above them.

Then, the torpedo bombers arrived, but, unlike those that had dealt Hornet such a heavy blow, these split their attention between Enterprise, South Dakota, Portland, and the rather-bewildered destroyer USS Smith, which got a damaged Kate and its torpedo to the face for its trouble.

An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.

They turned the boat into the face of the storm.

Put a big sign on each face of the building that can be seen from the road.

They climbed the north face of the mountain.

She wanted to wipe him off the face of the earth.

But there went vp a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face.

Captain Anderson: He has the secrets from the beacon. He has an army of geth at his command. And he won't stop until he's wiped humanity from the face of the galaxy!

A cube has six faces, each of which is a square.

When playing aggro decks, hit face whenever you can; it's not worth spending your resources to try to control the board.

a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face

For the typophiles reading this, the book is attractively designed. It is set in Classic Aldine, a handsome face akin to the more popular Palatino. The designer's work is unfortunately marred by indifferent printing.

The Lord make his face shine vpon thee, and be gracious vnto thee:

My face will I turne also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it.

Face the sun.

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband.

Turn the chair so it faces the table.

He gain'd alſo with his Forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland,

The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!

I've put out the stock and broken down the boxes, it's just facing left to do.

In my first job, I learned how to operate a till and to face the store to high standards.

We are facing an uncertain future.

The railway is still vital to Jordan's export trade, but in spite of the poor quality of the road, diesel lorries are gradually robbing it of freight traffic, and anyone who can afford to fly does so rather than face the long desert journey by rail.

Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do.

I'm going to have to face this sooner or later.

I'll face / This tempest, and deserve the name of king.

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.

I'm breaking down, breaking down at the thought of you I keep breaking down, breaking down over you again I can't face, can't face that you’re happier And so, I'm stuck rotting six feet under

The seats in the carriage faced backwards.

Real Madrid face Juventus in the quarter-finals.

And a further boost to England's qualification prospects came after the final whistle when Wales recorded a 2-1 home win over group rivals Montenegro, who Capello's men face in their final qualifier.

Willoughby comes in to bowl, and it's Hobson facing.

Face not mee: thou haſt brau'd manie men, braue not me; I will neither bee fac'd nor brau'd.

a building faced with marble

These upper walls seem mainly to have been formed, not of sun- or fire-baked bricks, as at Gournia or Palaikastro, but of clay or rubble, coated with plaster or faced with gypsum slabs.

to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress