Word: facings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Antonelli's face turned as red as the robe that was the emblem of his dignity. He retired, to compose a telegram bearing the news of this last diabolical act instigated by the heretical German premier. As he passed, his eye met the luckless Giacomo, cowering behind a statue. For one second the full flash of the Cardinal's eye was focussed on the unfortunate page. When he went on, the page was no longer there...
...color of his face...
...incurred it. It is presumable, or what is the same thing, it should be held that a man may come to his senses some day and try to do better, and when working hard in an examination with perhaps a fair chance of being dropped staring him in the face if he fails to do well, the chances are that any sudden announcement of being put on "special probation," or what not, may be fatal. Let men be told after having passed their examination, or even summon them and then report conditions; but to mention casually to a man writing...
...example of mixed metaphor, this is fearfully and wonderfully good. We like the delicate way in which the Chronicle asserts that the editorial staff of the unhappy Courier are bores; but think it unfair for the Chronicle to expect a clean face to be "shook" (shade of Lindley Murray!) out of the barrel of a gun. And let the Chronicle editors have care, lest, in their anxiety to prove themselves men, they fail to show themselves gentlemen...
LIKE the leaf of a rose on the snow is thy face...