"They are utterly lawless — the unhandiest devils in the world to deal with — but after all their faces are set Zionward".
Pebble size had become fairly uniform, with diameters from one to two centimetres, but particularly intricate areas, like faces, are set with smaller stones.
In this hermetically sealed world, tensions were high, faces were set in the rictus of insincere smiles, and everyone was claiming to speak for that complicated constituency known as "the American people".
The glass faces are set in an iron frame on the Clock Tower, which is part of the Houses of Parliament, in central London.
His face was set in a rictus of death that was somewhat like a smile.
His small simian face was set in a shock of black hair continuing down his back in a flame-colored coat.
Woods's game face was set firmly in place, and it sounded as if he had just about dialed in for a weekend run.
What Cather writes of Alexandra in "O Pioneers!" — "For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning" — is, on reflection, outrageous.
Betty Jane, whose blond hair was arranged in an upsweep, wore a black blouse and tailored black leather pants; her face was set off by a chandelier-design gold necklace, and she wore two diamond rings that were only slightly smaller than the knob on a stick shift.
