"Moon-faced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ordinary rag doll than a fairy princess is like a dairy-maid. The minute that Sarah Jane saw it she knew at once that there never had been such a doll. It was small—not more than seven or eight inches tall—not by any means the usual big, sprawling, moon-faced rag baby with its arms standing out at right angles with its body. It was tiny and genteel in figure, slim-waisted, and straight-backed. It was made of, not common cotton cloth, but linen—real glossy white linen—which Sarah ...
— Young Lucretia and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins
... in the day was an unusual one, for in all the years that I have called at the Bank—ten, now—no, eleven since we first knew each other—Peter had seldom failed to be ready for our walk uptown when the old moon-faced clock high up on the wall above the stove pointed ...
— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith
... not she; Nor husband worthy of Vidarbha's Pride, Save it were Nala. It is meet I bring Comfort forthwith to yon despairing one, The consort of the just and noble Prince, For whom I see her heart-sick. I will go And speak good tidings to this moon-faced Queen, Who once knew nought of sorrows, but to-day Stands yonder, plunged heart-deep in woful thought." So, all those signs and marks considering Which stamped her Bhima's child, Sudeva drew Nearer, and said: "Vidarbhi, Nala's wife, I am the Brahmana ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... o'clock he was to meet Francey at the gates, and, as though she had some magic gift of relief, he strained towards that time, his head between his hands, his ears counting the seconds that dripped heavily, drowsily from the moon-faced clock. ...
— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie
... make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes! But ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie
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