A crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

That dirty-faced kid had no mortgage on the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

"Welcome, Comrade General," said a dirty-faced Red Army colonel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

He was staring at a small flaxen-haired, dirty-faced boy as he spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference

Sons of Anarchy creator on Emmy snub: "We are the dirty-faced outlaws".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescue Me's Peter Tolan: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Is a "Bunch of Whores"] Reference

We are the dirty-faced outlaws who no one wants in their clean white town.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sons of Anarchy' cast has a few bleepin' words for Emmy voters] Reference

In the sand some dirty-faced children were playing, who got up and ran away at his approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference

It was a street of small cottages, and empty lots, and goats, and many, many dirty-faced children.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

Out by the toy counters, John found a dirty-faced street gamin in patched knee trousers confronting him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

He was a dirty-faced young fraki who reminded Thorby poignantly of Ziggie, except that this kid had two hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizen Of The Galaxy]

"And would you tell this one of dragon's teeth?" he asked the dirty-faced urchin as politely as he could manage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiddler Fair]

The beggar is a dirty-faced boy wearing a sleeveless shirt and trousers so worn that the tatters barely cover his knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Towers of the Sunset]

Falon shouted to the dirty-faced inkmaker, who spilled a pint of bubbling, jet black pigment across his hand in startled response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons at War]

"'Av a' oss, guv'nor, 'av a' oss?" said a dirty-faced, sweaty, but generous Tommy to me, as he led a black Boer steed by the bridle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference

The dirty-faced clock on the shop wall chimed twelve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Bow Mystery] Reference

A dirty-faced albino extended a hand to the ferret-faced man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Space and Time] Reference

But by that time the dirty-faced little creature had gone away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Grandmother] Reference

'When they're in a good humour,' interposed the dirty-faced man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

Presently he returned followed by the ragged, dirty-faced little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jess] Reference

'Rum creeters is women,' said the dirty-faced man, after a pause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

"I've seed it many a time in little dirty-faced swipes," Blister stated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blister Jones] Reference

'They must have been very nice men, both of 'em,' said the dirty-faced man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

He wasn't a rebellious youth or a dirty-faced pretty boy - he was a warrior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"Black yer boots?" inquired a dirty-faced boy, with a box slung over his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets] Reference

This appeared to suggest pleasant dreams, for the boy smiled like a dirty-faced angel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories] Reference

But Esther gathered up the dear, dirty-faced young rascal and bore him struggling out of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Little Australians] Reference

He has left you with these dirty-faced imps, and you left three others behind you with three fathers!.    From Wordnik.com.  [L'Assommoir] Reference

Billy found Bridge and Miguel squatting on the ground with two dirty-faced peons standing guard over them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mucker] Reference

The Prior smiled quietly at the thought of the sturdy, dirty-faced boy working among crucibles and retorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A March on London] Reference

"Haven't seen a bow-legged, dirty-faced little devil of a six-year-old lost kid around here anywhere, have you?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Million] Reference

The streets were lined with small unpainted frame houses and dirty-faced children ran screaming in the dusty roadway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

A dirty-faced small boy in corduroys was tending a brazier of live coals, upon which some breakfast cans were steaming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton] Reference

In their place a dirty-faced man in khaki, tastefully draped in flapping sandbags -- his boots covered, his hands stained.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

'Why, Maurice, my boy, there's quite enough of us going in her as it is,' said the captain, kindly, for the dirty-faced but bright-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899] Reference