Brows
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In a few words I told him our trouble, while Jim, with a grey face and his
brows
drawn down, stood leaning against the door-post.
Then there came a broad black blurr through the haze, which darkened and hardened until we could see that it was a hundred men abreast, marching swiftly towards us, with high fur hats upon their heads and a gleam of brasswork over their
brows.
There was something horrid and absurd in their way of sinning, for it was all a force even upon themselves; they did not only act against conscience, but against nature; they put a rape upon their temper to drown the reflections, which their circumstances continually gave them; and nothing was more easy than to see how sighs would interrupt their songs, and paleness and anguish sit upon their brows, in spite of the forced smiles they put on; nay, sometimes it would break out at their very mouths when they had parted with their money for a lewd treat or a wicked embrace.
Cardenio heard the name of Luscinda, but he only shrugged his shoulders, bit his lips, bent his brows, and before long two streams of tears escaped from his eyes.
Begone, show thyself no more before me under pain of my wrath;" and so saying he knitted his brows, puffed out his cheeks, gazed around him, and stamped on the ground violently with his right foot, showing in every way the rage that was pent up in his heart; and at his words and furious gestures Sancho was so scared and terrified that he would have been glad if the earth had opened that instant and swallowed him, and his only thought was to turn round and make his escape from the angry presence of his master.
And when kings and princes observe this marvellous science of poetry in wise, virtuous, and thoughtful subjects, they honour, value, exalt them, and even crown them with the leaves of that tree which the thunderbolt strikes not, as if to show that they whose
brows
are honoured and adorned with such a crown are not to be assailed by anyone."
His
brows
were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter.
Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his
brows
knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire.
As to Holmes, I observed that he sat frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted
brows
and an abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his hand when I mentioned it.
He shied a pebble into the irrigating-ditch, and eyed the racing current with lowering
brows.
The woman took a deep breath, and stared at Kate under level
brows
for a full half-minute.
Ten steps further, and the scrub was all about him, whipping him across the brows, hooking thorns into his jacket, and looping roots in front of his knees as he pushed on up an ever-steepening incline.
His
brows
knitted.
The four friends looked at one another, and a cloud came over the
brows
which but lately had been so cheerful.
THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE PROFESSOR"Undoubtedly it is Runic," said the Professor, bending his brows; "but there is a secret in it, and I mean to discover the key."
The Professor bent his shaggy brows, and I feared I had seriously compromised my own safety.
His dark
brows
knitted and his face flushed to a dusky red as he spoke.
Holmes sat in silence in the cab as we drove back to Baker Street, and I knew from his drawn
brows
and keen face that his mind, like my own, was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted.
There were pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel eyes.
His face was flushed with anger and his
brows
were wrinkled, like one who is at his wit's ends what to do.
The smith never moved, but his mouth set grim and hard, while his tufted
brows
came down over his keen, grey eyes.
Above, was the high, broad forehead of the philosopher, with keen, humorous eyes looking out from under thick, strong
brows.
It was curious to see the intense gravity of them all, fighters and backers, as they bent their
brows
and weighed the conditions of the match.
The confident smile with which he had watched the opening rounds had long vanished from his lips, and his cheeks had turned of a sallow pallor, whilst his small, fierce grey eyes looked furtively from under his craggy brows, and more than once he burst into savage imprecations when Wilson was beaten to the ground.
"This is a mystery indeed," said my uncle, bending his
brows
over the note.
The brindled hair and the rounded back gave the impression of advanced age, and it was only the dark
brows
and the bright alert eyes glancing out from beneath them which made me doubt whether it was really an old man who stood before us.
Sir Lothian recoiled from the pale fierce face with the black brows, but he still glared angrily about the room.
This explains then the excess of temperature in the two seasons, for, if we find the winters very cold in Lincoln Island, we must not forget that the summers here, on the contrary, are very hot.""But why, if you please, captain," asked Pencroft, knitting his brows, "why should our hemisphere, as you say, be so badly divided?
He had a colored scarf round his chin, and I could see little of his face save a pair of keen dark eyes, overhung by bushy white brows, and long gray side-whiskers.
His face in repose was not an unpleasing one, though his heavy
brows
and aggressive chin gave him, as I had lately seen, a terrible expression when moved to anger.
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