"Face off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... drop. As he was preparing to face off, the master skated up and asked the umpire for time. At once ...
— Glengarry Schooldays • Ralph Connor
... leaving her side long enough to plow a corn row if you are not careful. There'll be happy times for the weeds. Women of Rita's sort are like fire and water, Dic; they are useful and delightful, but dangerous. No man, however wise, knows their power. Egad! One of them would coax the face off of ye if she wanted it, before you knew you had a face. It's their God-given privilege to coax; but bless your soul, Dic, what a poor world this would be without their coaxing. God pity the man who lacks it! Eh, Dic?" Billy was thinking of ...
— A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties • Charles Major |
