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The thing itself is cursedly ugly, and the worst of it is that I shall have to face so much more that is ugly before that.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
ContextStephen felt his own face red too, thinking of all the bets about who would get first place in elements, Jack Lawton or he.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHis face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.
The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextIt only remains, therefore, to discover what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and prefers wearing a mask to showing his face.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextTo my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector, his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextThey all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextBut his face lit up, right away, for she tossed a pansy over the fence a moment before she disappeared.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextAnd so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
ContextHowever, he was not to be discouraged; he daubed his face over brown and black; pulled his cap over his ears, and knocked at the door.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
ContextIn the evening Squealer called them together, and with an alarmed expression on his face told them that he had some serious news to report.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
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