"You turn your
face away so you can't see, and then I will.
Tom Sawyer
Often after dark, when I was pulling the bellows for Joe, and we were singing Old Clem, and when the thought how we used to sing it at Miss Havisham's would seem to show me Estella's face in the fire, with her pretty hair fluttering in the wind and her eyes scorning me, - often at such a time I would look towards those panels of black night in the wall which the wooden windows then were, and would fancy that I saw her just drawing her
face away, and would believe that she had come at last.
Great Expectations
Blackguards!" shrieked the old man, turning his
face away from her.
War and Peace
"I'm tired; I think not." Her glance wandered from his
face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
`Why, sure, Jim.' A moment later she drew her
face away and whispered indignantly, `Why, Jim!
My Antonia
Now came the dead friends of his youth, and his white-bearded father, with a saint-like frown, and his mother turning her
face away as she passed by Ghost of a mother -- thinnest fantasy of a mother -- methinks she might yet have thrown a pitying glance towards her son!
Scarlet Letter
They tried to be kind to her, but she only turned her
face away when Mrs.
Secret Garden
She was halfway over in her turn, her
face away from the lion, when he suddenly turned his great head and fastened his eyes upon her.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
She sat down again, and turned her
face away from me.
The Two Destinies
He swung a frightful raking blow for Tarzan that would have wiped his
face away had it landed, but it did not land, for Tarzan ducked beneath it and closed, his long knife ready in one strong hand--the knife of his dead father, of the father he never had known.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
But all I thought of then was to get his
face away, and I handed him my money.
Kidnapped
The tears stood in Oliver's eyes as he recalled the scene which was the beginning of so much happiness; and the gentleman turned his
face away, and remained silent, for some minutes.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
"No, you didn't, you knew perfectly well I never cared for anyone but Jo," Laurie said that in his old, impetuous tone, and turned his
face away as he spoke.
Little Women
She looked anxious and uneasy; she turned her
face away on the sofa pillow -- turned it suddenly, as if she was in pain.
No Name
The passenger turned his
face away, at the same time putting out his two fingers and crossing himself.
Dracula