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1 The camp was formed in a square; the 60th Rifles were holding the face first threatened by the enemy.
2 Rub the buff leather, holding the face down, with the sharp edge of a pair of shears or a piece of glass.
3 I'd wake up in a hospital room holding the face of a dead woman, knowing that my lips had just touched hers.
4 But at the opening of the three-day gathering in Geneva, France's delegate warned that holding the face - to - face meeting was too risky and "a mistake".
5 'Ee up, niggur," he continued, grasping the long hair of the savage, and holding the face upward; "let's get a squint of your phisog.
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