1521 collocations for face

Only one jumped: the others stood by their commander, faced death calmly, and won a never-dying renown for their heroism.

How many brilliant, sanguine, impossible theories I heard advanced all those days, and how the few remaining members of the Centre Gauche tried to reason with the most liberal men of the Centre Droit and to persuade them frankly to face the fact that the country had sent a strong Republican majority to Parliament and to make the best of the fait accompli.

" "I am ready for your sake to face any danger the telling of my secret may hold for me," he responded firmly.

As for Donnegan, the leap that carried him to one side whirled him about also; he faced the big man, who was now crouched in the very act of following the knife cast with the lunge of his powerful body.

And I can think of nothing more beautiful than that a useful man who has faced the world for seventy years and has done his part, should come back in his old age to the nursery and be the playfellow of his grandchildren.

At this stage of the game four or five menwho were employed as "bouncers" for the establishment to throw out the noisy personsrushed up to capture Bill, but he knocked them right and left with his cane, and seeing the whole crowd was now closing in on him, he jumped into a corner, and with each hand drew a revolver and faced the enemy.

At the end of the gallery was a veranda, facing the east, and surrounded by lattices.

"Gentlemen," he said, "we are facing a problem which, so far as I know, is without parallel.

We have got to face the sea and try to make Holyhead.

Out of some four hundred Epworthians enrolled in the Institute, about forty had made definite decisions; but certainly not less than two hundred more had also faced the future, and in some sort had made a new contract with themselves and with God.

After three quiet years of retirement at his country seat in Hampshire he was again called upon to face a situation of extreme difficulty.

The man in gray got up, placed the empty glass in Todd's hand, whirled him around facing the door and said sternly: "More milk!"

It is a corner building in Trafalgar Square, the entrance facing Whitcomb Street.

He bore himself with reverent dignity and undeviatingly 'faced the south,' and that was all.

Maybe I ought to go back and face the music.

To each of the great residences for the monks at the Jetavana vihâra there were two gates, one facing the east and the other facing the north.

Yes, we must face that truth, we men; and face it like men.

He lay facing the west.

It was on the other side of the fireplace, on the wall which faced the windows,not the best light, I knew enough to be aware, for an oil-painting.

Those only who on horseback sat remained to face the foe.

But by a great effort of will she recovered self-possession, the courage to face the life of loneliness that now lay before her.

Yet I am convinced that if he could have felt the heave and roll of the deck beneath him, he would have faced three times the difficulties he now feared.

But I have faced much more terrible things.

He'd met him face to face the same way he met Joe Rix and killed him.

The most dangerous part of the ground we had to cross was the level valley separating us from the enemy, where we had to face a storm of cannon- and musket-balls which wounded a good many of our men.

1521 collocations for  face