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His face was always in the newspapers, sometimes in cartoons that seemed nearly as large as life.
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Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.
And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.
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She could not face coffee or tea without milk, and was always craving types of food that were not available aboard a sailing ship.
Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.
Burn cards are almost always placed face down next to the discard pile without being revealed to the players.
Where some Jews regard them as examples of heroic martyrdom, but others saying that while Jews should always be willing to face martyrdom if necessary, it was wrong for them to take their own lives.
Circuses and basilicas were designed to keep the face of the Emperor perpetually in view, and always in a seat of authority.
Like other Greek letters, it could face either leftwards or rightwards ( x14pxx14px ), depending on the current writing direction, but just like in Phoenician, the horizontal bars always faced in the direction of writing.
They are also more likely to have piebald coats, and will almost always have a white spot on the chest or face.
Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.
Besides his face looked a proper mess, helmet-scarred, a great wart on his nose, an unpleasant discharge always trickling from one eye.
However, a superior court always has the discretion to grant the writ even in the face of an alternative remedy ( see May v. Ferndale Institution ).
Although there is no obvious restriction that any given regular polygon cannot be a face of a Johnson solid, it turns out that the faces of Johnson solids always have 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 sides.
Viking raiders always had the option to fallback in the face of a superior force or stubborn defence and then reappear to attack other locations or retreat to their bases in what is now Sweden, Denmark, Norway and their Atlantic colonies.
Though he had to face strong pressure on the part of the ambassadors of the Bourbon courts Clement XIII always refused to yield to their demands to have the Society of Jesus suppressed.
Always keep two pairs together with an Ace-face for the top ,-Except: always split two pairs of four face cards without an AK top.
A giant 15-meter ( 50 ft ) tall gold-plated statue of him stands on a rotating pedestal in Ashgabat, so it will always face into the sun and shine light onto the city.
Pinkerton says " Farewell, flowery refuge of happiness and of love, her gentle face will always haunt me, torturing me endlessly.
Powell stated, " I have and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origins ".
A constant gnawing pain affected his hip and leg muscles, and his face was stricken with marks that always reminded him of the struggles he faced in the Klondike.
Col. Fitts reacts with disgust to meeting Jim and Jim ; he asks, " How come these faggots always have to rub it in your face?
" Spacey obliged, eventually coming up with 35 phrases, but Bening could not always keep a straight face, which meant the scene had to be shot ten times.
They are written about things that children can understand, and situations they will face such as going to the hospital and going to school, and they always have a happy ending.
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