Significados de face a battery en inglés

He knows how to face a battery, but before me,-heis afraid!

I'd rather face a battery!

To face a battery of eyes that were amused or scornful or pitying, according to the disposition of the owner of the eyes?

As for Sir Lucius, I would rather face a battery of guns than tell the dear old chap the shameful story to his face.

That the fastidious exquisite should tramp through Virginia mud, and face a battery of hostile cannon, appeared to her the most marvellous of human paradoxes.

Better disciplined troops than the veterans of Lee and Jackson never faced a battery.

In a trice, or less, we were facing a battery of cameras and microphones, or their Martian equivalents.

No, he must risk it, and at once, though he would rather have faced a battery of guns.

Heney, not entirely recovered from his wound, but back in court, faced a battery of the country's highest priced attorneys.

Its premises were attacked several times, and it faced a battery of legal charges and a multi-million dollar fine over its coverage of jail violence.

"Ma foi!" the colonel said, "I would rather have faced a battery than swum those moats in such weather.