Example sentences of "face was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace 's face was no less expressive . |
| 2 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 3 | His battledress was soaked with blood on one side , his face was a ghastly grey colour with the mouth hanging open , his head was turned to one side with the eyes closed . |
| 4 | The man 's face was a glistening red , as though he had smeared it with Vaseline . |
| 5 | ‘ The face was a mass of shredded flesh . |
| 6 | His face was a mass of wounds , his neck completely broken . |
| 7 | As she walked onto the floor her heart was beating fast with excitement but her face was a smiling serene mask . |
| 8 | Parker 's face was a mask of blood and he kept brushing at his eye . |
| 9 | Katharine 's face was a picture when Jennie suggested that she ‘ have a bit of fund with some flying changes ’ . |
| 10 | She had no conventional beauty , her features were not exquisitely proportioned and her face was a bit chubby . |
| 11 | His face was a picture of red ferocity , the straggling red hair and beard , the bloodshot eyes , the gaunt-featured face burnt red by wind and sun , which yet showed on the cheekbones and under the eyes the bruising stain of tiredness . |
| 12 | Both his parents looked at George , whose face was a picture of delight . |
| 13 | She saw that his ribcage was moving almost violently within his robe and that the skin of his face was a little stained in some way . |
| 14 | … it being very narrow where we met it , the Driver of the Chaise in backing his Horses to avoid being drove over overturned his Chaise , but very providentially , blessed be Almighty God for it ! we received very little Injury , Nancys Face was a little bruised . |
| 15 | Kirov 's face was a study in sympathy . |
| 16 | Her face was a soft mass of blubbery flesh . |
| 17 | His face was a melted-tar smear , with durium highlights . |
| 18 | Yeremi began stripping the corpse , whose face was a gash of blood … |
| 19 | Its mottled little face was a mass of wrinkles . |
| 20 | Her face was a white blur under the dark cloak and hood she wore as protection against the fierce wind coming in off the sea . |
| 21 | When Meh'Lindi emerged from the bedroom , begowned and jewelled as Jaq 's mistress once more , her face was a study in expressionless hauteur ; though when Grimm trotted out after her , looking dazzled , fleetingly a hint of mischief twinkled in her eyes . |
| 22 | His face was a mass of purple bruises , his lips swollen and split and his eyes lost behind puffy tissue . |
| 23 | His face was a snarling snout , the face of a boar or a dog . |
| 24 | His body , overwritten with coloured filaments and moving equations , was almost invisible ; his face was a mask , illuminated from below by the rainbow sprays of tiny linked shapes springing from the sphere . |
| 25 | Her face was a mask of fear . |
| 26 | In the branch of the Banco dell'Annunziazione a girl , whose face was a mask of disappointment nobly borne and from whose carmined lips dangled a cigarette miraculously balancing a tube of ash , clattered calculations as she stood before an upright typewriter and , in less time than she had expected , Molly was in possession of a mound of hundred thousand lire notes . |
| 27 | ‘ the transfer on its face was a perfectly regular sale and as against third parties taking a legal estate for value and in good faith it was within the ostensible authority of Mrs. Steed and can not now be repudiated against such third parties . |
| 28 | But nobody told her that her face was a pretty heart-shape . |
| 29 | Her arms and legs were spread like a flayed hide ; her face was a gargoyle 's grimace . |
| 30 | His face was a red mush . |