When we came in, she was lying across a bed, her face buried in the covers; but it was a tearless and defiant face she raised to me.

She had been moved to a spacious room in the Aillard apartments; when we came in she was lying across the bed, her face buried in the covers, and she looked as if she had been crying; but it was a tearless and defiant face she raised to me.

If I try to make love to her Clare will try to go along with it...and soon I leave her alone, afraid of the docile, tearless face that seems to be miles away.

At the sound of the door Ann Veronica uncovered a tearless face, and with one swift movement assumed a conversational attitude.

He saw tears on that once tearless face, more unbearable than wrath.

She was standing over the body of Phemy, looking down on the white sleep with a solemn, motherly, tearless face.

Their faces were tucked and grey, scooped out or nerveless, but they were tearless faces.

By an earnest repetition of this entreaty, poured out in all the agony of such a moment, Sissy at last brought her to be silent, and to look at her with a tearless face of stone.

He lifted his tearless face to Ben's.

She lifted a tearless face from the curtain of her yellow hair, and looked at him with wonder and compunction, seeing him so shattered.