Visages
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Frequently, the flesh on the faces had gone away by strips, the bones had burst through the mellow skins, the
visages
were like lumps of boned, boiled beef.
More example sentences with word visages
In the mean time they formed up in a line of sentinels, presenting under their row of white hats every type of fighting face, from the fresh boyish countenances of Tom Belcher, Jones, and the other younger recruits, to the scarred and mutilated
visages
of the veteran bruisers.
These two squires were followed by two attendants, whose dark visages, white turbans, and the Oriental form of their garments, showed them to be natives of some distant Eastern country.
The strange
visages
which came, in turn, to gnash their teeth in the rose window, were like so many brands cast into the brazier; and from the whole of this effervescing crowd, there escaped, as from a furnace, a sharp, piercing, stinging noise, hissing like the wings of a gnat.
Among the thousands of
visages
which that light tinged with scarlet, there was one which seemed, even more than all the others, absorbed in contemplation of the dancer.
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