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Black-faced

Black-faced \Black"-faced`\, a. Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.

Usage examples of "black-faced".

It was almost a challenge as she pointed the cosher in the direction of a large, black-faced sheep some distance away.

Rare black-faced impala mixed freely with zebra while families of wart-hogs scurried about underfoot.

The black-faced man wrote somthing on a peice of paper and handed it to me.

Men dotted the fields of tabac or barley, and boys watched flocks of black-faced sheep in the pastures.

The wagon shuddered to a stop less than ten cubits from the chicken house smithy, and a black-faced Sias set the brake, then clambered down.

They had four black-faced sheep cropping grass outside their glass side, their arabian horses, a collie dog as large as a pony that won prizes, and some of the most beautiful imported ducks in the world.

A glimpse of hills behind their home, the smell of the sea, black-faced sheep pastured on a distant hill I treasured every hint of their surroundings, and hoped they would be enough to guide me to them.

With nimble footwork he kept the trunk between Anna and himself, until at last she stopped, gasping and redfaced, and panted at him, Come out, you yellow-bellied black-faced apology for a blue-testicled baboon!