Far safer, of a midnight meeting External ghost, Than an interior confronting That whiter host.
There is a shame of nobleness Confronting sudden pelf, -- A finer shame of ecstasy Convicted of itself.
This was why Theodora North, in glistening rose-pink satin, sent him home confronting a suddenly-raised spirit of pain.
'Dixon! you forget to whom you are speaking.' She stood upright and firm on her feet now, confronting the waiting-maid, and fixing her with her steady discerning eye.
Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr confronting each other, he gave a violent peal.
I dashed the spectacles violently to the ground, and, leaping to my feet, stood erect in the middle of the floor, confronting Mrs. Simpson, with my arms set a-kimbo, and grinning and foaming, but, at the same time, utterly speechless with terror and with rage.