#Define facebar skin#

A face like a very expensive cat -Josephine Tey.

Face like a sodden pie -Edgar Lee Masters.

Face like a small pale mask -William Faulkner.

Face like a slab of corned beef -Oakley Hall.

Face like a sallow bust on a bracket in a university library -Edith Wharton.

Eyes set wide apart and shallow -Donald McCaigĬarlyle thus described his publisher, Frederic Henry Hedge.

Face … like a predatory bird, beaked, grim-lipped -Wallace Stegner.

Face … like a pillow that has been much but badly slept on -Romain Gary.

Face … like a piece of the out-of-doors come indoors: as holly-berries do -D.

Face like a picture of a knight, like one of that Round Table bunch -O.

(A little brown monkey of a man with) a face like a nut -Ruth Rendell.

A face like a Mediterranean Lolita -Carol Ascher.

Face … like a mail-order ax -William H.Face like a knotty whorl in the bark of a hoary olive tree -Amos Oz.(A pale flat woman with a) face like a fillet of flounder -Helen Hudson.Face … like a fiddle and everyone who sees him must love him -Anon Irish sayingĬarl Sandburg who had a penchant for incorporating familiar similes into his work, quoted this in his poem, New Hampshire Again.

Face like a butcher’s block -Frank O’Connor.Face like a benediction -Miguel de Cervantes.Face … like a badly packed suitcase -Jimmy Sangster.Face like a pie … out of the oven too soon -William Faulkner.Face lean as a hatchet -William Beechcroft.Face … its beauty fortuitous like that of a Puritan woman leaning over the washtub -Walker Percy.Face is like the Milky Way in the sky -Sir John Suckling.A face in many planes, as if the carver had whittled and modelled and indented to see how far he could go -Willa Cather.Face … heavy, as if little bags of sand had been painlessly sewn into various parts of it, dragging the features away from the bones -Kingsley Amis.Face … heavy as a sack -Honoré de Balzac.Face … has the compressed appearance, as though someone had squeezed his head in a vise -Woolcott Gibbs, about Thomas Dewey 1940 campaign.Face … dry and immobile, like a mummy’s -Ignazio Silone.Face … doughy, like a fresh baking of bread just put out to rise -Paul J.Face crumpled as if it had been left out in the rain -Lael Tucker Wertenbaker.Face … clean as a china plate -Dorothy Canfield Fisher.Face … changeable as an autumn sky -John O’Connor.Face … bunched up like a fist -Jonathan Valin.Face … as creased and brown as a walnut -Margaret Millar.A face as creased and limited as her conversation -Hortense Calisher.Face … as broad and plain as a tin pie pan -Jean Thompson.

A dry energetic face which seemed to press forward with the spring of his prominent features, as though it were the weapon with which he cleared his way through the world -Edith Wharton.

A desolate, cratered face, sooty with care like an abandoned mining town -Joseph Heller.

The countenance is the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose -William Matthews.

A bulky white face like that of a Mother Superior -Frank Swinnerton.

Angular face, sharp as the face of the knave in a deck -George Garrett.

A beautiful face … cut as clear and sharp as a cameo -Jack London.

#Define facebar skin#

See Also: BLUSHES CHEEKS EYE(S) EYEBROWS EYELASHES EYELIDS FACIAL EXPRESSION, MISCELLANEOUS FACIAL DETAILS HAIR LIPS MOUTH MUSTACHES PHYSICAL APPEARANCE SKIN WRINKLES