Which preposition to use with face

of Occurrences 7345%

It was the face of a swine.

with Occurrences 2033%

We are not in the least infallible; we come face to face with fierce temptations; we have heart-breaking sorrows; we are burdened with anxiety and perplexity.

to Occurrences 1789%

We are not in the least infallible; we come face to face with fierce temptations; we have heart-breaking sorrows; we are burdened with anxiety and perplexity.

in Occurrences 1434%

He said he didn't know; it was perhaps noticing an unfamiliar face in the group of men standing there,and something recalled his brother, the ambassador.

on Occurrences 376%

I don't think he liked it much either, but he put a better face on the matter.

at Occurrences 369%

You might have perceived, that while the old man was abusing the wine you drank as unripe, and making wry faces at it, he still kept tasting it; and if I had not reached it to you, he would probably, before he had ceased his meditations, have finished half the bottle.

for Occurrences 305%

Then suddenly observing me, he stooped nervously as if about to fly on the instant, but as I remained as motionless as the stone, he gained confidence, and looked me steadily in the face for about a minute, then flew quietly to the outlet and began to sing.

from Occurrences 266%

An old owl came flying lazily out of the thick branches of a hemlock, and lightin' within a dozen feet of me, opened his great round eyes in astonishment, and as the bright sunlight dazzled him, he squinted and turned his cat-like face from side to side, as if makin' up his mind that he'd know me the next time we met.

like Occurrences 254%

she cried, her face like a rose, "your color's pink!" From the depths of an inverted sewing-machine top Mrs. Kaufman fished out another bit of the pink, ruffling it with deft needle.

toward Occurrences 234%

To provide against an attack by the city brigands who are always prowling in the vicinity of picnic parties, it will be judicious to attend to the following rules: Select all the fat women of the party, and seat them in a ring outside the rest of the picnickers, and with their faces toward the centre of the circle.

about Occurrences 178%

And full of Coxcomb dress and ogle high; | Seem to receive their Charge, and face about, I'll pawn my life they never stand it out.

against Occurrences 173%

We had to shield our faces against the heat, and the wooden railing under our hands was growing warm.

towards Occurrences 160%

" Her father put his hand under her chin, and, lifting her face towards his, looked long and earnestly at the pure brow, about which the brown hair clustered in natural curls, the clear-cut nose, the laughing lips parted over a row of pearls, and the wonderful deep gray eyes.

as Occurrences 148%

Such a look on the absent, tender face as the great masters, the divinest poets cannot often summon, but which comes at the call of some foolish old nursery jingle, some fragment of half-forgotten folk-lore, heard when the world was youngwhen all hearing was music, when all sight was "pictures," when every sense brought marvels that seemed the everyday way of the wonderful, wonderful world.

into Occurrences 132%

" Above the black-bombazine basque, so pleasantly relieved at the throat by a V of fresh white net, a wave of color moved up Mrs. Kaufman's face into her architectural coiffure, the very black and very coarse skein of her hair wound into a large loose mound directly atop her head and pierced there with a ball-topped comb of another decade.

before Occurrences 91%

So saying, Ulf laid Roger upon his back, and coming to Beltane, fell upon his face before him and caught his mailed feet and kissed them.

between Occurrences 66%

" Evadne caught Mrs. Everidge's face between her hands and kissed it reverently.

by Occurrences 64%

The blow missed Jack's face by the fraction of an inch.

without Occurrences 58%

Shew thy Face without delay, or Sir Tim.

under Occurrences 55%

I caught a glimpse of his face under the street lights, as I thrust a bill into the driver's hand, and it fairly startled me.

than Occurrences 48%

Perceiving that I looked chagrined, she added: "It is said, you know, that the light from mens' eyes is yet worse for womens' faces than the light of the sun;" and she blushed as if she had said something wrong.

over Occurrences 46%

Once in a while she would turn her strained-looking face over her shoulder, glancing back, with the frank eyes of an enemy, at her fellow-citizens labouring along the trail.

among Occurrences 45%

she exclaimed, as she rejoined her mother in the sitting-room; "but I did not know that I should have to turn missionary the first night and give her a Bible!" Upstairs Evadne buried her face among the pillows and the aching heart burst its bonds in one long quivering cry of pain.

above Occurrences 41%

The child's lip quivered, but something in the suffering face above her made her say quickly, "Me'll be dood, Don, an' when oo turn back, me'll be waitin' at de gate.

through Occurrences 41%

But as her interlocutor, appalled, laid no claim to the sentiment, she lifted the mittened hand to her eyes, and from under it scanned the white face through the lightly falling snow.

Which preposition to use with  face