201 examples of red-faced in sentences
Bluff Walter Thurman, too, who was said to know more of Dickens, whist and criminal law than any other man living, came to worship at her shrine, as likewise did huge red-faced Ashby Bland, famed for that cavalry charge which history-books tell you that he led, and at which he actually was not present, for reasons all Lichfield knew and chuckled over.
He was fat, red-faced, and humorous, although his humor was not refined.
He was a heavy-set, red-faced man of some sixty years, with long, straight nose, aggressive, pointed chin, and firm-set lips, and though he greeted us civilly enough, there was a touch of insolence in his manner which he made small effort to conceal, and which showed that it was not upon the Virginia troops he placed reliance.
"I ain't much used to sech things," he replied, looking down at his big hands and growing a little red-faced.
Madam Simon, who was a fat and red-faced lady, was forever praising him, and the young miss, who was extremely well-looking, was as continually making eyes at him.
He rushed in on me with another "whoop," and I saw then that he was a big, powerful, red-faced fellow of a rather coarse sporting typethe kind of brute
He is a little red-faced man who looks like a children's toy and changes his clothes about seven times a day.
But the Corporal was one of those red-faced burly people with whom you have, if you are close to them, either to laugh or fight.
But the fright and the gloom disappeared in one minute and forever when the door burst open, and a red-faced, white-haired old man, utterly out of breath, bounced into the room, and seizing Reuben by the hand gasped out, puffing between the words like a steam-engine: "Wreck me, if this isn't a hard way to make port.
That is, all sought positions of safety but one man, a stout, red-faced individual, who appeared dazed or befuddled.
Turning he saw the same red-faced man whom he had been unfortunate enough to knock down.
"I reckon so, son," grinned the red-faced man, in response to this elegant speech; "now, then, are you going to give up that chair or not?" "I was just leaving it when you came out," rejoined Roy, who, by this time, was fairly boiling over.
" Ralph saw him slouching in his chair, swung sideways from the untidy desk, his legs stretched out, his hands in his pockets, his jaws engaged on the phantom tooth-pick; and, in a corner of the office, the figure of a middle-sized red-faced young man who seemed to have been interrupted in the act of saying something disagreeable.
Discomposure was no unusual condition for Arnold, who not infrequently made his appearance red-faced and sullen, evidently fresh from angry revolt against his tutor, but on that morning he was anything but red-faced, and looked a little scared.
He looked up at the cabbythe red-faced, bottle-nosed cabby, with his absurd scarlet vest, his mustard-coloured trousers and his glazed top hat.
" The American lawyer, a chubby, red-faced man of forty, with clear grey eyes and a stubby mustache, whistled soulfully.
[Illustration: Waiter (at public dinner, to very hot and red-faced diner).
I must have appeared drunk, for I was greeted with howls and cheers, an inferno of cries and laughter; and the red-faced man stood up also and clung to me, and brought his queer face close up to mine.
The Duchess of Praslin, jolly, red-faced, looking very vulgar, and being very attentive and civil.
Another evil sprite was the Clobher-ceann, "a jolly, red-faced, drunken little fellow," always "found astride of a wine-butt" singing and drinking from a full tankard in a hard drinker's cellar, and bound by his appearance to bring its owner to speedy ruin.
One of these represented a stout, red-faced man of about forty years of age, in a bright green uniform, and with a star upon his breast; the othera beautiful young woman, with an aquiline nose, forehead curls, and a rose in her powdered hair.
" The next customer was a poor but jovial mechanic, having a red-faced little wife slung on his arm.
Hast ever seen one outside of pictures?" "Aye, Lambkin, and 'twas the unseemly kilt that was the better part; for I have met a blustering red-faced Scot as thou sayest; and he was boisterous and surly, giving vent to a choleric temper by coarse oaths; and 'twas his plaid denoted a gentleman of high rank withal.
It was a sweaty, red-faced crew that the marshal dumped into Pennington's grocery with, "Here, Bill, I found your boy and these young demons fightin' down 't the circus ground, and I took 'em in charge.
He was instantly, but mysteriously, approached, and touched on the arm by a red-faced bareheaded man, who seemed to be in authority, and was beckoned to follow.