faced

Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death.

Was she to be given into the keeping of this sharp-faced, sharp-eyed woman?

Just as Anne emerged triumphantly from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in rushed Diana Barry, white faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head.

Peter Blewett only by sight as a small, shrewish-faced woman without an ounce of superfluous flesh on her bones.