"Human face" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... table, he looked down into her eyes with an expression such as Letty had never before seen in a human face. ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... the bush beyond, There are two birds—if you can call them birds— I could not see them rightly for the leaves. But they've the shape and colour of horned owls And I'm half certain they've a human face. ...
— The Countess Cathleen • William Butler Yeats
... not to me returns Day, or the sweet Approach of Ev'n and Morn, Or Sight of vernal Bloom, or Summer's Rose, Or Flocks or Herds, or human Face divine; But Cloud instead, and ever-during Dark Surround me: From the chearful Ways of Men Cut off, and for the Book of Knowledge fair, Presented—with an universal Blank Of Nature's Works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And Wisdom at one Entrance quite ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... at Laura. She was before her easel as of old; but the pale nun had given place to a blooming girl, who sang at her work, which was no prim Pallas, but a Clytie turning her human face ...
— A Modern Cinderella - or The Little Old Show and Other Stories • Louisa May Alcott
... discoverer of some of these terrae incognitae, and doubted whether they had yet been laid down in the modern charts of London. For all this, however, I paid a heavy price in distant years, when the human face tyrannised over my dreams, and the perplexities of my steps in London came back and haunted my sleep, with the feeling of perplexities, moral and intellectual, that brought confusion to the reason, or anguish and remorse ...
— Confessions of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas De Quincey
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