Mining term for the surface where the mining work is advancing.
1 We drive 10 kilometres in a comfortable minibus to the pit face , 355 metres below the surface.
2 But this moon had eyes that burned in its pallid, pitted face .
3 His ignoble small-pox pitted face assumed an expression of bland inquiry.
4 There was a queer cynicism in his big pitted face .
5 The grainy digital shot showed a fiftyish Anglo with grizzled hair and a pitted face .
6 They squinted at the moon's pitted face , marveled at its stately motion that scorned any support.
7 There had been an N. C. on the suit-case belonging to the woman with the pitted face .
8 The man pulled off his helmet and shook out long thick hair around his scarred and pitted face .
9 Thirty-six now, Christian thought, remembering the laborious small pits facing the British, facing the tanks and the armored cars.
10 He was a middle-aged man, but had long, flowing white hair, and the most deeply- pitted face I have ever beheld.
11 A high collar jutted from the shoulders to frame a ghastly, pitted face twisted by fury that bordered on madness.
13 A pitted face was almost as much a matter of course a hundred years ago as a smooth one is to-day.
14 "That's played out, old Pockared"-alludingto the chieftain's pitted face .
15 Rollins was midfifties and had a pitted face and the spiky gray hair of a crew cut neglected a week too long.
16 The pitted face of the mountain behind the town was without life, for, as has been seen, Meneptah was not a building monarch.
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