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.

Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.

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.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

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.

It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.

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.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

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.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

There was nothing in particular on the man's face.

Then she saw Ramey and her face was misshapen with bewilderment.

Some of the ruddiness was gone from his face and he stared at Ramey.

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.

Kitty screamed insanely and her face was white.

There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.

There was one time, however, when his face clouded and he suddenly blurted, `` Why did my brother commit suicide ''??

He'd been in an angry mood: Conchita had thought his face almost ugly with the anger in him.

His face took on a sudden pallor, became beaded with sweat, and he seemed to have trouble with his breathing.

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

At the sight of Sally's happy face and carefree expression, Harmony's dark, brooding eyes quickly brightened with unshed tears.

He half woke and rolled over with his face in the cooler grass.

She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

Ben's eyes strained with the bitter hurt, his homely face slashed with gray and crimson.

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of our own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed, enlightened, competent leaders.

One of the pictures was of a man with hat drawn over his face ceremoniously lighting a cigarette ; ;

She opened the boxes with a tear in her eye and a sad smile on her face.

Our data indicate that these students of today do basically accept the existing institutions of the society, and, in the face of the realities of complex and large-scale economic and political problems, make a wary and ambivalent delegation of trust to those who occupy positions of legitimized responsibility for coping with such collective concerns.

It was unexpected, unexpected because Lilly walked with her head bent down, down, and her mark of friendship was to look into your face.

Here I am face to face with the primeval stuff ''.

The " stick figure face ," despite its simplicity, conveys mood information ( in this case, disappointment or mild unhappiness ).

This continued support for Jardine in the face of growing unhappiness towards Bodyline bowling came with some reservations, as the President and Secretary of the M. C. C.

In 1619 she suffered from smallpox " which spoiled that good face of hers, which had brought to other much misery and to herself greatness which ended with much unhappiness.

Besides, she had a sweet face that attracted him.

The girl's thin face haunted him.

It wasn't the face of a killer.

He hadn't shaved for several weeks, his sparse beard giving his face a pathetic, woebegone expression.

Clayton tried to call back the face of the man he had known.

I heard the whir of an ax and a Canadian's face burst apart in a bloody spray.

I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

they would not dare to face his scoffing.

Once again, he shook his head, kept his face expressionless and his voice very calm, and had a strongly supported alibi ready.

His face pale, Summers headed for the street.

Now turn around so I can see your face ''.

He drew back his arm to slash the gunbarrel across Jess's face, but didn't finish the motion.

Sweat bubbled out on Jess's swarthy face.

Turning his back, Curt crossed to the stall, reached over to untie the buckskin's halter rope, and waved his hand in the animal's face.