facing
/ˈfeɪsɪŋ/ adjective C2- Positioned so as to face (in a particular direction) · (Concluded on facing page)
- Diverging in the direction of travel.
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Suddenly he struck against something crouching behind a wheelbarrow filled with leaves; the something rose, uttering an exclamation of astonishment, and Monte Cristo found himself facing a man about fifty years old, who was plucking strawberries, which he was placing upon grape leaves.
The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”
The girl, after leaving her entertainer, sped swiftly cross-town until she arrived at a handsome and sedate mansion two squares to the east, facing on that avenue which is the highway of Mammon and the auxiliary gods.
The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles’s South African gold.
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