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Example sentences for "white face"

  • Her hair was fox-red and pinned back on each side of her temples with Spanish combs of gold and pearls; she surveyed the stalls with cavernous eyes set in a snow-white face; and in her hand she held a bouquet of lilac orchids.

  • On our arrival I had a good look at her heavy, white face, as deeply pitted with smallpox as a solitaire board, and I wondered if she hailed from Moscow or Margate.

  • A gauntlet of steel was dashed often into the white face.

  • Green and violet swept the stones; a white face shone in the shadows.

  • Hour by hour, she was tortured by the vision of steel falling upon a strong young neck, of a white face lying in a pool of blood, of a dripping carcase and a sweating sword.

  • A dense mist seemed to rise betwixt her soul and the white face of the Madonna.

  • He bent down and clasped her in his arms, and his joyful tears rained upon her sweet, white face.

  • She slipped from her chair and knelt before him, clasping her fragile white hands in an agony of appeal, and lifting her wan, white face imploringly.

  • She straightened Lily out upon the floor, and dashed cold water into her white face, but with no success.

  • A sneer flickered over the younger man's white face.

  • Sakr-el-Bahr's feelings as he considered Rosamunds's white face in the fading light were most oddly conflicting.

  • Victor Lamont, gazing down upon the pure, marble-white face of Bernardine.

  • She could see, even in that dim light, the pink flush steal quickly over the wan, white face.

  • When he rose to the surface, looking eagerly about for the young girl whom he was risking his life to save, he saw a white face appear on the surface.

  • The boy lay with his eyes closed, his chalk-white face half-hidden by the blankets; he was very still.

  • It was a young man with red hair and a pink-and-white face.

  • In the bunk at the end of a bundle of blankets was the chalk-white face of Stockton.

  • Yo' white face 'minds me of my own Mandy Car'line just 'fo' she died!

  • YO' WHITE FACE 'MINDS ME OF MY OWN MANDY CAR'LINE JUST 'FO' SHE DIED!

  • The small, white face is drenched with tears, the dark eyes are dim and heavy.

  • The dark, mustached lips are set in a grave and thoughtful line, the dark blue eyes look curiously into the bride's white face as he takes her passive hand and draws her forward toward the waiting minister.

  • From her hiding-place in the adjoining room Vera creeps out with a white face, and takes her way up-stairs to her mother's room.

  • His friend was startled when he looked at the young man's white face as he sat opposite the open window listening to the thunder, and staring at the black sky, rent every now and then by forked streaks of steel-blue lightning.

  • Robert Audley met him on the landing, with his hair beaten about his white face, and his garments dripping wet.

  • He saw a white face on the pillow; a deep-red spot on each cheek; eyes with the glaze of swift-coming death.

  • He went and looked a moment at the still, white face, and the old priest told him that his cousin had died peacefully, trusting to the full in the mercy and pardon of Heaven.

  • A baffled look came into his troubled, marble-white face.

  • Helen had not known how her eyes were smiling, and she looked with quick compunction at Lois's white face.

  • Mr. Denner caught a glimpse, through the cloud of dust, of Lois Howe's white face, and a shrinking figure clinging to her.

  • And the uncalculating cruelty in the man's voice sent the red to the girl's white face, and moving over to him made her lean down and kiss him upon the mouth.

  • And even as he bent downwards to her she fell unconscious at his feet, whereupon he raised her in his arms and looked into the white face, speaking so that only she might hear.

  • But when that word was uttered, it was a case of now or never; and Duncan, with something of a white face to be sure, thrust himself between.

  • But her small, white face betrayed no consciousness of him.

  • Her small, white face had an aghast look.

  • An almost imperceptible spasm passed over the dead-white face.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white face" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    expose them; great family; only hope; religious fanaticism; white background; white beard; white chillun; white disk; white flag; white flannels; white folkses; white garments; white man; white mice; white mustard; white palfrey; white rabbit; white sand; white satin; white steed; white steeds; white stripe; white troops; white vest; white woman; will pray