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.

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.

Although the industry has rebounded, the government recognizes the continuing need for upgrading the sector in the face of stiff international competition.

Survivors of such stunts face charges and stiff fines, as it is illegal, on both sides of the border, to attempt to go over the falls.

As Lana Turner's cuckolded husband, Lord Esketh, Rennie maintained his typical dignity and stiff upper lip in the face of the character's diminished self-esteem.

In the face of stiff competition she got the title role in the musical Annie at Folkan in Stockholm.

When the famous book collection of Anthony Askew, the Bibliotheca Askeviana, was auctioned off upon Askew's death in 1774, Hunter purchased many significant volumes in the face of stiff competition from the British Museum.

However, the newspaper continued to face financial pressures: the paper had only 825 subscribers by the beginning of 1825, and faced stiff competition from another Reform newspaper, the Canadian Freeman.

Journalism and government both face stiff competition from the relatively high salaries and profits available in the business sector.

* The product will face stiff competition soon after introduction.

The automobile, steel, and electronics industries were also beginning to face stiff competition in the U. S. domestic market by foreign producers who had more modern factories and higher-quality products.

The industry has markedly declined since the 1970s, large footwear manufacturers such as Dolcis, Freeman, Hardy and Willis, Frank Wright and Timpsons, having left the town or closed down in the face of stiff overseas competition, while others have outsourced their production to lower-cost countries.

The site was originally a cinema complex operated by the Hoyts Group from the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, when it closed down in the face of stiff competition.

Also at that time it had to face stiff competition from a well established The Hindu and the Mail besides other prominent newspapers.

Through the efforts of the Continental Navy's patron, John Adams and vigorous Congressional support in the face of stiff opposition, the fleet cumulatively became relatively substantial when considering the limitations imposed upon the Patriot supply pool.

Cowan spotted Manekshaw holding on to life and was aware of his valour in face of stiff resistance from the Japanese.

On 9 January 2006, The National adopted a new look as part of a major rebranding for CBC News, stemming mainly from an extensive study by the CBC into how to make news programming more relevant, particularly in the face of stiff competition from CTV National News and Global National.

These weapons would not be silenced until being hit by several MILAN anti-tank missiles and six 105mm artillery guns from Mount Challenger. The L Company Marines took nearly 6 hours to advance 600 metres in the face of stiff resistance and contend they took fire from at least seven machine guns that wounded five men, including the company's second-in-command and a signaller.

In June, the battalion was involved in Operation Battleaxe, a British / Commonwealth offensive push to relieve the besieged city of Tobruk, though the offensive saw stiff resistance from the enemy forces, and the Allies eventually had to withdraw in the face of numerically superior, and better armed Afrika Korps.

Mary Lou Retton was the first American woman ever to win the title, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, but because those Games were boycotted by the Soviet Union, meaning Retton did not face stiff competition from the Soviet gymnasts ( who consistently dominated the sport during that period, accounting in 1984 for six of the seven previous Olympic all-around champions and nine of the ten previous World all-around champions ), Patterson's victory had a unique significance.

The song touched a chord with the British trait of stoicism and the ' stiff upper lip ' in the face of disaster, and became immensely popular.

British commanders determined not to push forward in the face of stiff German resistance, and the attack was called off the following day on 24 April.

The three stores currently in New Jersey continue to face stiff competition from Ahold owned Stop & Shop, the ShopRite cooperative, and, to a lesser extent, A & P.

Trains leaving Consall face a stiff gradient as they begin the section towards Cheddleton.

In the face of stiff British competition, they gradually lost control over Philippine business.

It acquired the New Zealand-based Independent Business Weekly in 2006 and renamed it the Independent Financial Review, operating the paper until it closed down in the face of stiff competition on 1 July, 2010.