The first figure, a male, turned, its face blackened and leaking from numerous ruptures.

His face was blackened, smeared with blood from an ugly gash.

His face blackened with anger and he raised one fist in the air, a prophet of doom.

"There was a fire," Patil explained, his face blackened with soot.

General Badi, his face cut up and blackened by the blast, replied.

The Irishman's pale face blackened with a new passion.

The crushing pressure of those closing claws was driving the air from me; my face blackened; I gasped for breath.

His hair was mostly burned off, his face charred and blackened.

That face was blackening, as though an invisible shade of night had advanced to cover it.

The colliers, their faces scarcely blackened, were trooping home again.