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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.
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 clouded with unhappiness.
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.
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.

face and dark
At the sight of Sally's happy face and carefree expression, Harmony's dark, brooding eyes quickly brightened with unshed tears.
Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.
Not seeing her dark intelligent face, one would have gauged the voice as that of a Westwood Village matron, ten years out of Iowa.
Your first impression of this elongated square with its three elegant fountains, its two churches that almost face each other, and its russet-colored buildings, is a sense of restful spaciousness -- particularly welcome after wandering around the narrow and dark streets that you have followed since starting this walk.
Madden's dark face wore a meditative look.
Alec's face was dark, blunt, and sulky.
And, shoving her against a spruce, her back to him, he retreated with the whip and made it whine and crack in the damp air, shortening its arc until it narrowed to her flesh and the sound of it snarled and cracked, settling its own cruel demons on her shoulders while she stood as unchanged, as dark and motionless as ever, her eyes open and staring at the pale delineaments of the bark so close to her face.
He was a beautiful boy, really, with finely-spun blonde hair and a smooth and still effeminate face, and his eyelashes were long and dark and brushlike, and his eyes were blue.
He had his own face, dark and beautiful.
It is said that her face and dark eyes were as charming as Aphrodite's, and that she honoured her husband like no woman before her.
" However, common features in many 19th-century newspaper accounts include a dog-like face, dark fur, a horse-like tail, flippers, and walrus-like tusks or horns or a duck-like bill.
His dark, scarred, almost sinister face was that of a fighting-man, and his velvet garments could not conceal the hard, dangerous lines of his limbs.
Fictional hero Rhett Butler has a " swarthy face, flashing teeth and dark alert eyes ".
* Beauty mark, dark mole on the face or other part of the body that is considered to be attractive
Some advanced face and eye powders contain optical brightener microspheres that brighten shadowed or dark areas of the skin, such as " tired eyes ".
The spirit of Elohiym moved upon the dark face of the waters and commanded there to be light.
It is distinguished by relatively long legs, pink lips, dark face and tail-tuft through adulthood, and parted long hair on its head.
During her heyday, film technicians described the right side of her face as " the dark side of the moon.
Dickens describes the apparition thus-" Marley's face ... had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
A round flower of overlapping petals was the aim of early trials ; in the late 1830s a chance sport that no longer had narrow nectar guides of dark color on the petals but a broad dark blotch on the petals ( which came to be called the " face "), was found.

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