Then Mr. Power rose again, and laying his hands together, with a peculiarly soft and reverent gesture, lifted up his face and prayed.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Only when Bennigsen had entered the hut did Kutúzov leave his corner and draw toward the table, but not near enough for the candles that had been placed there to light up his face.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I have not seen Anna since the day you left us; her father and brother visited her most days.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

If I had been treated like you by my husband, I would never look upon his face again.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

But meanwhile came into the court a lady upon horseback, full richly dressed, and saluted King Arthur, and asked him for the gift that he had promised her when she gave him his sword Excalibur, “for,” said she, “I am the lady of the lake.” “Ask what thou wilt,” said the king, “and thou shalt have it, if I have power to give.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

She was their Queen, but she was very rarely seen, perhaps once in two or three years, when she came forth to pass sentence on some offenders, and when seen was muffled up in a big cloak, so that nobody could look upon her face.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The letters reveal in all its beauty the character of this Princess, who lavished the care and tenderness of a heart full of filial love upon her father in his last illness, and exactly seventeen years after, fell a victim to the devotion with which she nursed her husband and children through the terrible malady that was raging at the time throughout the Grand-Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt.
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

As Charley uttered his defiance, his glance rested for a moment on the most advanced of these and a gleam of hope lit up his face.
— from The Boy Chums in the Forest; Or, Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

What he saw there was a man lying upon his face.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 by Various

Well, therefore, may the inspired apostle say, " Let us draw near ,"—" Let us hold fast ,"—" Let us consider one another ."
— from Notes on the book of Exodus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

At times Verty would stretch out his hand, and, taking his cedar bow from a chair, bend it thoughtfully, and utter the low Indian murmur, which has been represented by the letters, " ough " so unsuccessfully; then he would allow the weapon to slide from his nerveless hand—his head would droop—the dim dreamy smile would light up his features for an instant, and he would lean upon the desk and ponder—his countenance half enveloped by the long tangled chestnut hair which still flowed upon his shoulders in wild luxuriance.
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

“Well, Friedhelm,” he asked, after a pause, during which the drawn and tense look upon his face relaxed somewhat, “what have you to say to the man who has let you think him honest for three years?” “Whom I know, and ever have known, to be an honest man.”
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

Jane looked up, her face and throat dyed crimson.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

Mary turned her head, and lifted up her face towards the speaker.
— from Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey

"Come, Vreneli, wilt thou not tell me?" said the old man, and his eye rested almost with love upon her face.
— from Fairy Circles Tales and Legends of Giants, Dwarfs, Fairies, Water-Sprites, and Hobgoblins by Villamaria

The church was more than half filled with Chinese, and the scene was touching in the extreme, as one by one they went to look upon her face for the last time.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884 by Various