“It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find ⟳ himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch ⟳ was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like ⟳ the rector's face ⟳; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.”

“‘Children crawled over each other like ⟳ little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like ⟳ great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’”

“Why the sad face ⟳?”

“Children! Stop ⟳ making faces at each other!”

“MAKE ⟳ Money-wholesale U.S. stamps—buy ⟳ mint stamps below face ⟳. Be a dealer. Send ⟳ $1.00 for two giant catalogs, refunded first order ⟳. Von Stein, Bernardsville, N.J.”

“With certain exceptions for valuable stamps, dealers and many collectors are only willing to offer ⟳ a percentage of face ⟳ (80-90%). So instead, Lloyd took the sheets to work ⟳ and posted a message asking if anyone wanted to buy ⟳ sheets of old U.S. stamps at face ⟳.”

“Talking about buying below face ⟳, I've bought a lot of rolled coins at below face ⟳. I'm not going to pay ⟳ face ⟳ just to drag ⟳ them to the bank and deposit ⟳ them.”

“Shut ⟳ your face ⟳!”

“He's always stuffing his face ⟳ with chips.”

“I'll be out in a sec. Just let ⟳ me put ⟳ on my face ⟳.”

“Our chairman is the face ⟳ of this company.”

“He managed to show ⟳ a bold face ⟳ despite his embarrassment.”

“As the film points out, the actor became known as “the face ⟳ of Aids”.”

“lose ⟳ face ⟳”

“save ⟳ face ⟳”

“You've got some face ⟳ coming round here after what you've done.”

“a. 1694, John Tillotson, Preface to The Works This is the man that has the face ⟳ to charge others with false citations.”

“This is a face ⟳ of her that we have ⟳ not seen before.”

“Poverty is the ugly face ⟳ of capitalism.”

“to fly ⟳ in the face ⟳ of danger”

“to speak ⟳ before the face ⟳ of God”

“The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like ⟳ a bat he chose the night hours for his work ⟳ of rapine; like ⟳ a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like ⟳ a bat he never showed himself to the face ⟳ of the day.”

“It was just the usual faces at the pub tonight.”

“He better not show ⟳ his face ⟳ around here no more.”

“He owned several local businesses and was a face ⟳ around town.”

“Vincent was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge—the ultimate Face ⟳.”

“The fans cheered on the face ⟳ as he made his comeback.”

“The face ⟳ of the cliff loomed above them.”

“Then, the torpedo bombers arrived, but, unlike those that had dealt Hornet such a heavy blow ⟳, these split ⟳ their attention between Enterprise, South Dakota, Portland, and the rather-bewildered destroyer USS Smith, which got a damaged Kate and its torpedo to the face ⟳ for its trouble ⟳.”

“An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear ⟳ thumping away as you enter ⟳. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.”

“They turned the boat into the face ⟳ of the storm.”

“Put ⟳ a big sign ⟳ on each face ⟳ of the building that can be seen from the road.”

“They climbed the north face ⟳ of the mountain.”

“She wanted to wipe him off the face ⟳ of the earth.”

“But there went vp a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face ⟳ of the ground.”

“Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face ⟳.”

“Captain Anderson: He has the secrets from the beacon. He has an army of geth at his command. And he won't stop ⟳ until he's wiped humanity from the face ⟳ of the galaxy!”

“A cube has six faces, each of which is a square.”

“When playing aggro decks, hit face ⟳ whenever you can; it's not worth spending your resources to try ⟳ to control ⟳ the board ⟳.”

“a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face ⟳”

“For the typophiles reading this, the book is attractively designed. It is set ⟳ in Classic Aldine, a handsome face ⟳ akin to the more popular Palatino. The designer's work ⟳ is unfortunately marred by indifferent printing.”

“The Lord make ⟳ his face ⟳ shine ⟳ vpon thee, and be gracious vnto thee:”

“My face ⟳ will I turne also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place ⟳: for the robbers shall enter ⟳ into it and defile it.”

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