She was attractive, with blond hair down to her shoulders and a scrubbed face that seemed unnaturally pale and set.

They walked with an eager bounce, their bright scrubbed faces shining in sunlight, for to them school was the world's great adventure.

Her fresh scrubbed face gazed up at him adoringly as she walked closer, marred only by the whisker burns on her cheeks and the puffiness of her lips.

Looking around him at the scrubbed faces of the young Gentiles, he couldn't see one that looked like a lawbreaker.

But ghosts of worry occasionally slid across their scrubbed native faces.

Fifteen of the 16 players wear their long hair in ponytails, and with their scrubbed faces and tall slim figures they look like a team of models.

"Either that or just awful tired," Hannah said softly, her scrubbed face still bearing the marks of sleep.

A photograph of a schoolgirl, dark, shiny, well-brushed hair, a scrubbed, glowing face with a hint of freckles, a snub nose, and a broad grin.

And we stare back because, with their scrubbed faces, slicked-back hair and neat, navy blue blazers, they seem so innocent and appealing.

He was a bright young man, with a scrubbed face and the expression of a delighted rabbit.