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• Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,[...]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
• Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
• Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.
• He says he likes hip-hop, but I think it's just a front.
• You don't need to put on a front. Just be yourself.
• with smiling fronts encountering
• The inhabitants showed a bold front.
• like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
• the very head and front of my offending
• summer's front
• Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.
• Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
• His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
• The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
• The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
• The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.
• They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
• The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
• After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
• [...]down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.
• She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.
• those that have willed to attaine to some greater excellence, have not beene content, at home, and at rest to expect the rigors of fortune; but have rather gone to meet and front her before, and witting-earnestly cast themselves to the triall of the hardest difficulties.
• What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
• Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
• The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
• Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
• Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
• I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
• So when I tell people where I'm from and check their reactions, I know in my heart I'm just frontin’. Because the way and where I lived then pales when compared to the way and where many youths are living today.
• Boy don't try to front, / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
• You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin'.