"Face the music" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stood there the more difficult it seemed to get courage enough to open the door and face the music. At length she heard Doctor Bryan ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... won't be late, because you won't be there," he said. "No going back to tea for you. We'll have dinner at the Petit Riche in Soho, and then we'll do a theatre, and then I'll take you home and we'll face the music. ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... book he called "Statistics of Foxes," and that told him an old dog-fox of uncommon strength, if dislodged from that particular wood, would slip into Bellman's Coppice, and if driven out of that would face the music again, would take the open country for Higham Gorse, and probably be killed before he got there; but once there a regiment of scythes might cut him out, but bleeding, sneezing fox-hounds would never work him out at the tail ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... more like boars, with the tusk inverted and transferred by Rhino-plastic process to the nose. When enraged, the animal exalts its horn and trumpets like a locomotive, whereupon it is advisable to give it the right of way, as to face the music would ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 • Various
... came the fireplace was opened, and the unlucky pair were informed of the situation of affairs and asked to choose between the alternatives presented. McDonald decided to return and face the music; but Johnson, doubtful if the Confederates would be hoodwinked by any explanation, voted to remain where he was and wait for the finish ...
— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various
... her eyes dropped. As if ashamed of having caused her embarrassment, he bit his lip, and muttered, "I have been offensive, I am afraid. But you see how it is? And now you know the truth, have guessed something of it, you will see that I have either to face the music, plead guilty to the charge and go to prison, or get out of ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice |
