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face to face with somebody/something

with someone or something in front of you As I was going into the restaurant, I came face to face with my teacher, who was just leaving. Suddenly, I was face to face with a panther.

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Now, though his conviction that jealousy was a shameful feeling and that one ought to feel confidence, had not broken down, he felt that he was standing face to face with something illogical and irrational, and did not know what was to be done. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context They come back to me now almost with the palpitation they caused, the successive feelings that accompanied my consciousness that as the door of the room closed behind me I was really face to face with the Juliana of some of Aspern's most exquisite and most renowned lyrics. The Aspern Papers by James, Henry View in context what should be leaving my room, as I advanced to enter it, but--well, it's no use, resolutions are all very well, but facts are facts, especially when they're natural, and here was I face to face with the most natural little natural fact, and withal the most charming and merry-eyed, that-- well, in short, as I came to enter my room I was confronted by the roundest, ruddiest little chambermaid ever created for the trial of mortal frailty. The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context	eyed eyeful eyelid eyes are bigger than belly eyes are out on stalks eyes like saucers eyes like two burnt holes in a blanket eyes pop out of head eyetooth face face away face doesn't fit face down face facts face forward face head-on face into face is a picture face it face off face on face only a mother could love face the consequences face the music face to face face to face with face up face with face-to-face fact Fact is stranger than fiction factory factory farming fade fade away fade back fade down fade from fade from view fade in fade into fade into insignificance fade out fade up fag fag out fagged out fail fail in fail on faint	face side face signal face soap face stone face string face string FACE Table Generator face that could Stop a clock face the consequences Face the Issue Face the Jury face the music face the music face the music face the music face the music Face the Music (album) Face the Nation Face the World Face Threatening Act face tile face timbering face time face time face to face face to face face to face face to face face to face Face to Face Time face to face with face towel Face transplant Face Transplantation face up face up face up face up face up Face Up Feet Towards Enemy face up to face up to Face Up, Feet Towards face upwards face upwards face upwards face upwards Face validity Face validity Face validity Face validity face value face value face value face value face value face value face values face values face values face veil

Now, though his conviction that jealousy was a shameful feeling and that one ought to feel confidence, had not broken down, he felt that he was standing face to face with something illogical and irrational, and did not know what was to be done.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

They come back to me now almost with the palpitation they caused, the successive feelings that accompanied my consciousness that as the door of the room closed behind me I was really face to face with the Juliana of some of Aspern's most exquisite and most renowned lyrics.

The Aspern Papers by James, Henry View in context

what should be leaving my room, as I advanced to enter it, but--well, it's no use, resolutions are all very well, but facts are facts, especially when they're natural, and here was I face to face with the most natural little natural fact, and withal the most charming and merry-eyed, that-- well, in short, as I came to enter my room I was confronted by the roundest, ruddiest little chambermaid ever created for the trial of mortal frailty.

The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context

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