Example sentences of "[unc] face was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man 's face was a glistening red , as though he had smeared it with Vaseline . |
| 2 | Parker 's face was a mask of blood and he kept brushing at his eye . |
| 3 | Katharine 's face was a picture when Jennie suggested that she ‘ have a bit of fund with some flying changes ’ . |
| 4 | Kirov 's face was a study in sympathy . |
| 5 | The Myrcan 's face was a wilderness . |
| 6 | Myra 's face was a study , and beneath her curls Claudia could almost see her brain making two and two equal a hundred . |
| 7 | Daryl , a very tall thin young man with a neatly-trimmed beard , with a red knitted stocking tammy buffon 'd up on his hair , with thin features and a beautiful skin , more black than brown ( his mother 's face was a shiny cinnamon ) black and pointed like the African in pictures of the three kings , came down the steps into the kitchen with this tiny fair mite at the bottom of his long arm holding his hand . |
| 8 | Rincewind 's face was a mask of fascinated horror . |
| 9 | This girl did need a woman around her and her brother 's face was a fascinating mixture of satisfaction and irritation . |
| 10 | I use the word beautiful knowing it to be inaccurate , yet not knowing how else to counteract the myth which has circulated for two centuries that Frankenstein 's monster 's face was a hideous conglomeration of second-hand features . |
| 11 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 12 | Moodie 's face was a white blur in the candlelight . |
| 13 | Joanna 's face was a study . |
| 14 | Coming back , she said , ‘ Seeing that child 's face was a revelation . |
| 15 | Ace 's face was no less expressive . |
| 16 | But her father , a local businessmen , claimed the portrait revealing his daughter 's face was an insult to Islam . |