slap in the face

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

It is most peculiar, and when he plays that way, the most bewitching little expression comes over his face.

Bernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.

A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.

With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.

Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.