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Example sentences for "brows"

Lexicographically close words:
brownest; brownish; brownness; browns; brownstone; browse; browsed; browses; browsing; browt
  1. Bright o'er his brows the forky radiance blazed, And high in air the rod divine He raised.

  2. Something a shade too cool about this sally drew the lawyer's red brows together.

  3. But during the rest of the tale there rested on her broad brows under her copper coils of hair, a brooding spirit that was itself a mystery.

  4. That is a head somewhat in the style of Carlo Dolce, though the outline of the brows and the eyes bring to mind Raphael in his noblest type.

  5. At this the symmetrical brows of the beautiful lady frowned for an instant; but meanwhile they reached the hotel.

  6. Then she drew her brows together, and craned her neck with an expression of wonder.

  7. Thorpe looked at her, and drew his brows together.

  8. The Governor and his officers, seeing this abhorred sign, contracted their brows and sat in silent consternation.

  9. His brows were crowned with a wreath of olive, and he held in his right hand a sceptre, and in his left a statue of Victory.

  10. Molmutius made our laws; Who was the first of Britain which did put His brows within a golden crown, and called Himself a king.

  11. It may be but an old trick come back to me with these memories, but again I clasp my hands to my brows in amaze at the thought that all this was for me could I retain her love.

  12. I found him with it, his brows furrowed in the deepest thought.

  13. The other sat with brows knitted, with hard, defiant lips.

  14. He was getting to know it so well, to be prepared for its constant changes, to watch for certain movements of brows or lips when he had said certain things.

  15. James, grasping the arms of the chair, and thrusting aside the tabourette with his foot, while his hazel eyes flashed fire with anger, and his dark brows were knit.

  16. Her lips were a cloven honey cherrie, So tempting to the sight; Her locks owre alabaster brows Fell like the morning light.

  17. And the arched brows drew together for an instant.

  18. He saw it darken; he saw the brows knit; he noted the quickening breath, and in all these signs he read his doom before she uttered it.

  19. It was--" He paused, and his brows were knit a moment.

  20. He sat on and thought, what time his brows came closer together and his teeth fastened viciously upon the stem of the pipe.

  21. La Boulaye stood a moment in thought, his brows drawn together, his breathing seeming suspended, for into his soul a suspicion had of a sudden been thrust--a hideous suspicion.

  22. His lips were compressed, his brows drawn together in a forbidding scowl, and his eyes narrowed until they seemed almost closed.

  23. He looked up at Jack from under his brows and then looked away again.

  24. Captain Teach still looked gloomily from under his brows at his visitors, without vouchsafing any answer.

  25. He looked up from under his brows as Jack entered, frowning until his partly bald forehead swelled with knotted veins, but he did not immediately say anything.

  26. So he said nothing, but bent his brows again, and endeavoured to seem angry.

  27. Zehowah bent her brows so that they met between her eyes as the grip of a bow.

  28. Then Khaled bent his brows and turned his eyes away from her, for he was angry and disappointed, though indeed she knew in her heart that he was no Persian.

  29. Even then he did know, however, how to gather under the boldly molded superciliary arch of the brows the diffused shadows which, in the future, were to lend mystery and distance to most of his portraits.

  30. The cheeks curve against the socket of the eye; the double arch of the brows prolongs itself behind them.

  31. I must bathe my brows in the vague mist, in the fragrance of the earth, in the light of the dawning day.

  32. But when the door was opened, brows cleared and anxious looks vanished; for the visitor was none other than the peddler of a few days back, who, contrary to custom, had paid a second visit to the village within a week of the first.

  33. His features were very fine, and the dark-gray eyes with their delicately-pencilled brows were full of fire and brilliance.

  34. She sat long and pondered the question; no light came, although she bent her white brows into a deep frown in perplexed thought.

  35. She, too, could frown; now the straight black brows drew themselves together in an ugly way on the white forehead, the cheeks took a deeper pink, and the bright eyes had a snap in them.

  36. The man of business knit his brows and said that he "must reach C---- by a certain time or the consequences would be most disastrous.

  37. Face was ruddy, and his grey eyes looked out from under deep overhanging brows and bushy eyebrows.

  38. Eliza's brows drew together in a worried frown, for none of Murray's "boys" had awaited tidings from him with greater anxiety than she.

  39. As he looked in upon her she raised her face so that the light shone full upon it; her brows were puckered, she nibbled at the end of her pencil, in the midst of some creative puzzle.

  40. As soon as she felt the air upon her brows she became calm, and all dread left her.

  41. His corrugated brows were knitted grotesquely, as with dull bewildered eyes he stared in the direction of the laughter.

  42. His eyes gleamed dark and lurid beneath his bent brows and a short, desperate laugh passed his lips.

  43. For one second the two stared at each other with lifted brows and stony eyes.

  44. He was too short, square, and unanimated to draw much attention, although with a faint unconscious frown between widely parted brows his quiet eyes fell intently upon every detail of the lively scene below.

  45. Ramsey, arching her brows to old Joy and the Gilmores and by her own glance directing theirs to the aftermost figure in the yawl.

  46. The big man grew bigger and his shaggy brows more severe.

  47. Breathlessly, almost without pause, Bonbright poured upon him an account of last night's happenings, making no concealments, unconsciously giving Lightener glimpses into his heart that made the big man bend his brows ominously.

  48. She wrinkled her brows to aid recollection.

  49. Marion reflected for a few moments, her brows slightly knit in thought.

  50. Not when you, her lover, fail," Charlie responded, his brows knit deeply.

  51. Levi was speaking quickly, his attitude changed, as though giving serious advice, to which his master listened with knit brows and deep attention.

  52. Well, you are trying to mislead me," he answered, knitting his brows and looking her straight in the face.

  53. Her brows were knit, her countenance determined.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.