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face and was
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.
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.
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.

face and split
They can be split as part of the manufacturing process, giving the blocks a rough face replicating the appearance of natural stone, such as brownstone.
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.
This split into the taifa states caused Islamic presence to be greatly weakened in the face of the strengthening Christian kingdoms to the north.
The face of J. R. " Bob " Dobbs was split across the first two volumes, despite the Church of the SubGenius not being featured in the novel ( although Wilson had become a member ).
On May 1, Hooker advanced from Chancellorsville toward Lee, but the Confederate general split his army in the face of superior numbers, leaving a small force at Fredericksburg to deter Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick from advancing, while he attacked Hooker's advance with about 4 / 5ths of his army.
Valerian and Gallienus split the problems of the empire between the two, with the son taking the West and the father heading East to face the Persian threat.
The band cited a mutual split, expressing it was simply a time " to move on and face new challenges ".
Often the chert nodule will be split in half to create two cherts with a flat circular face for use in walls constructed of lime.
On receiving his orders, Cradock asked the Admiralty for permission to split his fleet into two forces, each able to face von Spee independently.
In the election, the Likud vote collapsed in the face of the Kadima split.
If the organism is split and stained, its characteristic pattern resembles the familiar " smiley face " symbol.
He selected the older 1955 Peterbilt 281 over the then-current flat-nosed " cab-over " style of trucks because the long hood of the Peterbilt, coupled to its split windshield and round headlights, gave it more of a " face ", adding to the menacing personality.
Slaughter announced he was disgusted with his country, claiming America had " gone soft " for accepting the Soviet Union's Nikolai Volkoff, ( Volkoff, in Slaughter's absence, had recently split from his tag partner Boris Zhukov, then turned face and embraced America, due in part to the fall of the wall ).
On July 14, just as the legislation seemed likely to split his party into two warring factions, Robinson's housekeeper found his pajama-clad body lying face down on his apartment floor.
Crow is a gold-colored puppet composed of, among other things, a soap-dish eye cowl, ping-pong ball eyes, a split plastic bowling pin mouth, a hockey face mask webbing, and a Tupperware body.
: His face was spotted with red as if splashed with blood that is split from the mouth, and his eyes were blue and big.
It is split into the Diamir ( west ) face and the Rakhiot ( north ) face by a long ridge.
First minor change shows when the rear changes to split the red strip into two sides, next the face changes in a few years with a small ridge i the middle of the hood and a chromium decoration on the hood tip, finally the last minor change, the tail light style changes from two layers of white / red to be the three layers red / white / red.
And immediately the face of the door of the temple was rent into two parts from top to bottom ; and the earth was shaken ; and the stones were split to pieces ; and the tombs were opened ; Diatessaron 52, 2
Bird, radical in his younger days, had been shifting to the right, and in the face of severe social unrest that forced a split in the ATLU in 1967 and rioting in 1968, the ATLU lost its tight hold of Antigua and Barbuda politics.
The face is typical of a camelid, being long and somewhat triangular, with a split upper lip.
The children split into two groups, and the members of each group hold hands, so that the teams face each other in two lines.
At its conclusion, one half of the face of Alma and the other of Elisabet's visage are shown in split screen, such that they appear to have become one face.

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