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"Face to face" Quotes from Famous Books

... each other again, those two, as they sat face to face, neither speaking, and carefully avoiding even a glance at Daygo, feeling as they did the awkwardness of their position, and averse to meeting the old ...

— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn

... At first he outstripped his savage pursuer; then his strength, it appeared, failed him; he dropped his rifle and ran on. Once more he gained ground on the elephant. He reached the tree, but he did not look to see on which side the elephant was coming. He ran round it and met his ruthless foe face to face! Not a cry escaped him. Who can picture his sensations? on another instant, the huge monster's whole weight was ...

— My First Voyage to Southern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

... benefit of others. If this is true, Gordon has well won the appellation, "The Hero of the Soudan." His soldierly qualities were first tested in the Crimea, where we find him in 1854 and 1855. Here for the first time in his military career he was brought face to face with all the horrors of actual war, and here for the first time he saw friend and foe lie locked like brothers in each other's arms. Here he got his first baptism of fire; and here he showed the splendid qualities which in ...

— General Gordon - Saint and Soldier • J. Wardle

... Emperor, in the tone of a man who knows well what he is talking about. "Such lines, such forms not Praxiteles himself could have invented. He must have seen them, have formed them as he stood face to face with the living copy. We will ask him. What is to be made out of ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... God Our eyes are dim! What should we do, if he, The sneering fiend, who laughs at all our toil, Should meet us face to face? ...

— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley

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