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look someone in the face

to look directly at someone without fear or shame. I don't know how you can look your sister in the face after what you've done.

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Look in the face of him and you'll see it wrote there. Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context “Is it no harm, Benny Pump,” said Natty, raising his eyes with a piteous look in the face of the steward—” is it no harm to show off a man in his seventy-first year, like a tame bear, for the settlers to look on? The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context More results

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Look in the face of him and you'll see it wrote there.

Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

“Is it no harm, Benny Pump,” said Natty, raising his eyes with a piteous look in the face of the steward—” is it no harm to show off a man in his seventy-first year, like a tame bear, for the settlers to look on?

The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

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