Snipers' posts had been built, Outfacing our lines, and German ammunition and bombs and coiled wire and a great litter of timber lay about.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
And again Beatrice, as tranquil, resolute to shield her lover from danger, with the same fixed gaze over the green spaces below her, answered as before the same answer, "No." Then there came a breathing-space of quiet; Messer Folco looked hard at his daughter; and she, for her part, looking, as before, away from him, because, as I guess, she judged that there would be something irreverent in Outfacing her father while she denied his wishes and defied so strangely his parental authority.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy
I was pausing to consider this, when a bright ray stream'd across the sea toward me, and the red rim of the sun rose out of the waters, Outfacing the glow on the headland, and rending the film of smoke that hung like a curtain about the horizon.
"The Splendid Spur"
Arthur T. Quiller Couch