Meaning of facie | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“Lovely is thy little facie, / Wi’ its locks o’ goud / Calmly couched roun’ thy wee haffets, / Like⟳ some simmer cloud.”

“Willie Whiskers.—A character in one of the “Mother Goose” rhymes, which is as follows: “Willie Whiskers had to stay⟳ / Near his mamma all the day, / For fear he’d fall⟳ down in the dirt / And get⟳ his little facie hurt⟳.””

“Suppose⟳ when a man comes home he look⟳ sfor^([sic]) little facies against the window pane, watching for papa.”

“But never allow⟳ sentimentality. “Little Birdie lets his mother wash⟳ his dear, little facie,” simpers the foolish mother. Is it to be wondered at that Algie says he saw⟳ “Mother Birdie” spanking her nestling? This is an utterly wrong way to talk⟳.”

““Oh, you little sweetheart! Come⟳ and get⟳ your little facie washed. Bobby, want⟳ your little facie washed? Do you? Do you?” he asks Bobby when their cages are being cleaned or whenever he thinks Bobby’s face⟳ is dirty.”

““Oh, I know⟳ a girl and her name⟳ is Gracie, / She has the prettiest little facie,” he sang and his voice climbed up to a higher pitch of happiness and floated out of the open⟳ windows into the elm boughs, […]”

“Pansies are still poking their little facies around every mailbox and birdbath forsythia is blooming, too!”

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