"Full-face" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her love, greater than his who rides Full-face against the spear-blades? Thinkest thou Such fire divine was kindled to be quenched? I tell ye nay! ...
— Voices for the Speechless • Abraham Firth
... direction, and for an instant his eyes met hers and took her in, though with little show of interest. Seeing him full-face she suddenly recalled him. Of course! When she and Miss Ferriss had first arrived, they had seen him on two occasions lunching in the Carlton grill, in company with a swarthy over-dressed Spanish-looking woman and her daughter. She remembered now. Shrewd old Miss Ferriss had said ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... are Greeks, and hearts are hearts, And poetry is power, and Euthukles Had faith therein to, full-face, fling the same— Sudden, the ice-thaw! The assembled foe, Heaving and swaying with strange friendliness, Cried 'Reverence Elektra!'—cried . . . 'Let stand Athenai'! . ...
— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne
... pictorial attention to locomotion seems to precede attention to cubic existence. For when the palaeolithic, or the Egyptian draughtsman, or even the Sixth Century Greek, unites profile legs and head with a full-face chest; and when the modern child supplements the insufficiently projecting full-face nose by a profile nose tacked on where we expect the ear, we are apt to think that these mistakes are due to indifference to the cubic nature ...
— The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics • Vernon Lee |
