child-face

She leaned back to give me a crooked grin, but the grin turned into the pinched child-face of tears.

You Live Once MacDonald, John D. 1956

What praise and thanksgiving went up from their grateful hearts, as they looked upon the child-face that they had travelled day and night to see!

Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

His father, moved by motherly persuasions, as we can easily infer, bought him casts for models, that he might continue his drawing-lessons at home; his own small allowance of pocket-money went for prints; his wistful child-face presently became known to dealers, and many a cheap lot was knocked down to him with amiable haste by friendly auctioneers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

Hours passed: the full moon cast her splendor on a sweet child-face bent over the keys in the organ-loft of the old cathedral, a smile still played about his lips, and his light brown hair lay in rings on his broad, white forehead.

Scenes in Switzerland American Tract Society

Blossom with her child-face of dazzling fairness, her china-blue eyes, her round, smooth cheeks.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

His big brown eyes looking up at the man crouching by the fire were eyes of innocent courage, and the expression on the sweet child-face was impenetrable.

A Master's Degree 1913

In his thwarted-looking, odd child-face there was a shade of appeal not wholly hidden by his evident wish not to be boylike.

The Shuttle 1907

Yet, as the child-face was all lighted with radiant smiles, and honest hands clasped mine, and the waters echoed the triumphant greeting, I could not but think again of

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

Her pretty child-face wore a sweet smile, and the whole effect of the photograph was dainty and graceful.

Marjorie's Maytime Carolyn Wells 1902

Gyp's face was so like the child-face she had seen lying there in the old days, that she bundled out of the room and cried bitterly into the cup of tea.

Beyond John Galsworthy 1900