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  • An early batch of the album had print errors on the right and left hand side title faces.

    Word Magazine - Comments mojoworking 2010

  • The results of this nearly impossible goal are recorded daily, in rubbings of the coin faces.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • An early batch of the album had print errors on the right and left hand side title faces.

    Word Magazine - Comments Podicle 2010

  • Instead of a modified version of PR, he settled for the alternative vote, a joke system that does not solve any of the democratic problems Britain faces.

    We need electoral reform, not this Liberal fudge Nick Cohen 2010

  • It means bearing a prejudice against certain faces.

    Camping It Up At Kingsnorth « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • I could see an unusual agitation on their blank, bulge-eyed faces, if those insect masks could be called faces.

    Valley of the Croen Lee Tarbell

  • He remembered the names of men that had died, that had gone home, that had gone to America: he remembered in his cups the names of men whose connection with the ship had been so short that Massy had almost forgotten its circumstances and could barely recall their faces.

    Youth And Two Other Stories 1899

  • He remembered the names of men that had died, that had gone home, that had gone to America: he remembered in his cups the names of men whose connection with the ship had been so short that Massy had almost forgotten its circumstances and could barely recall their faces.

    The End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Children are great admirers of beauty too, especially, I think, of the effeminate style of good looks, and are very susceptible to the power of expression in faces.

    Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls 1872

  • He might perhaps remember the names; he did not believe he could recall the faces.

    The Dictator Justin McCarthy 1871

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