Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they crept up to the window, and looked in. A gray-haired woman was sitting alone before the fire in an easy-chair. That she was far from comfortable, bodily or mentally, was evident from her nervous glances about the room, in particular at the face of a slow and respectable old-fashioned tall clock in the corner. The room was plainly, indeed barely, furnished. A single kerosene lamp burned dimly on the table...
What a smile of triumph lit up my face! How tenderly my own eyes beamed into them! How intensely, how bewilderingly I gazed into them...
...much to heart. She's really quite enraged at these intruders who so unconsciously disturbed our charming vis-a-vis. I'll have to cheer her." And thereupon I concentrated all the amiability of my naturally lovely disposition into one enchanting, bewitching smile, and cast it full into her face...
Mnag lifted his face to his daughter's reproachfully. "I have not deserved to suffer this from you," he said...
...fair fresh face the darksome forest brightening...