"Outface" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soul to those black fiends, That long have hovered gaping for their part, When tyrant life should leave thy traitor heart! Come, Lancaster, keep Skink; I'll go with thee. Let loose the mad knave, for I praise his shifts. He shall not start away; I'll be his guide, And with proud looks outface young Henry's pride. ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... side,— Leading the vanguard of humanity! And more I see; I see the rise of man Merely as man! Let the day come, O Lord, when man, without Addition to that noble title—man— Can stand erect before his fellow-man, Outface Oppression with his flashing eye, And stamp and grind proud Tyranny to dust. Put in our hearts, O, Gracious God, the yeast Of freedom; let it work our natures free, Although it break to recombine again The atoms of ...
— The Scarlet Stigma - A Drama in Four Acts • James Edgar Smith
... grim earnestness that imprinted itself on the lesser manhood of the jumpers as a finger leaves its print in clay. They shifted back a little from Plimsoll, circling out as they might have moved away from a man marked by pestilence. He stood trying to outface Sandy, to keep his eyes steady. His lips were tight closed, still he could not help but open his mouth to a quickened breathing, to touch the lips with a furtive tongue that found the skin peeling ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn
... friendships, near estrangements, heartless lovers loitering behind, shy acquaintance dropping off? Verily, there is a mighty sifting: you have dared to stand alone, have expounded your mind in imperishable print, have manifested wit enough to outface folly, sufficient moral courage to condemn vice, and more than is needful of good wisdom to shame the oracles of worldliness: and so some dread you, some hate, and many shun: the little selfish asterisks in that small sky fly from your constellatory glories: you are independent, ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... may'st, I warrant. We shall have old swearing,[113] That they did give the rings away to men; But we'll outface them, and outswear them, too. Away, make haste; thou know'st where I ...
— The Merchant of Venice [liberally edited by Charles Kean] • William Shakespeare |
