For a long time the black-browed maid stood shading her eyes with her hand while her white shoulders heaved.
But the black-browed maiden smiled with upturned scarlet lip when she saw it, and shrugged her white shoulders as she turned away to wait upon the mother of Vasily the Turbulent.
They were waited upon by the black-browed maiden, and when the meal was nearly over Vasily unfolded his plan for his next banquet.
Then the black-browed maiden came forward and led them to the vaults, turning her white shoulders from them as they chose whatever seemed good to them.
But Sadko was a trader," said the black-browed maid with quiet scorn.
The black-browed maiden needed no bribe to urge her to obey.
So the servant maid of the rag-merchant told the servant maid of another trader, who told the black-browed maid at the castle, only to find that she knew all about it already, for her master had told her two days before.
In a short time Vasily came to the Volkof bridge and found all as the black-browed maid had told him.
Then she said good-bye with tears, and the black-browed maid stood upon the bank as the red ship with sails of fair white linen sailed away from Novgorod and ran out like a full-breasted water-bird upon the bosom of Lake Ilmen.
Miss Euphrosyne gazed up at the stony lineaments of Professor Delande, her marble-browed and flinty-hearted sire, locked in the cold chill of a steel engraving.
And then the black-browed Frenchman, holding open the door, hissed "ALLEZ!
Upon one of the loftiest eminences to the right stand the ruins of a huge stone-heap; the tumulus, perchance, of some red-browed chieftain of other days.
The peculiarities of the sect are here strikingly manifested to the traveller in all the ordinary concerns and occupations of life, even in the every-day garb and conversation of its sober-browed citizens.
Now, it is well known why the father is visited when there is a black-browed daughter about.
Little cared the black-browed youths and maidens about his parents.
The story is told of David Osgood, the shaggy-browed old minister of Medford, that he had expressed his belief that not more than one soul in two thousand would be saved.
Gibson said nothing, but his black-browed regard made Farrell flush uncomfortably.
The heavy-browed fellow is a thief, who is out recruiting his band which the police have broken up in this or some other city.
Over yonder a knot of black-browed men talk with serious mien.
She was really a little afraid of the swarthy black-browed women of the country.
They were both so silent--that dark-browed man and bright faced woman--that they might almost be taken as kindred of the long shadows and sunstreaks over which they walked.
It had been a kind of infidelity to the dark-browed hero of dream, for the gentleman in question was not a nobleman, not even a Nimrod, and he had red hair.
Emmie was delighted at this attention on the part of her cousin, but she glanced up now and then from her occupation of crumbling the menthol into the tiny receptacle, keenly conscious of Ethan's black-browed preoccupation.
Why was he looking so black-browed and forbidding now?
No one ever saw such magnificence in stalactites; from the black fissured roofs of antres vast and low-browed caves they are hanging, of all conceivable shapes and sizes and descriptions.
Bill Hopkins still waited with a quizzical expression in his shaggy-browed eyes.
Never had it entered her mind before to conciliate the dark-browed fisherman who had pestered her with his attentions, but her frightened womanhood caught at the idea.
He was smiling at her with misty, shaggy-browed eyes, his lips showing his dark teeth with each incoming breath.
Liane, in girlish mockery, as she hurried out, meeting in the hall a dark-browed stranger, from whom she started back in dismay as he passed scowlingly to his room.
He seemed one in authority, yet Imber divined the square-browed man who sat by a desk farther back to be the one chief over them all and over the man who had rapped.
We will hear his talk which is like that of a child," said the square-browed man.
The crowd fell strangely silent, and the square-browed judge leaned head on hand and pondered his soul and the soul of his race.
This old man, he is damn crazy," he said in English to the square-browed man.
Still haunt the dark-browed little girl whom once he used to tease?
The large-browed wombat might, at first sight, be mistaken for a small bear.
As for Pelleas, he was glum and heavy-browed as thunder, with a look in his deep eyes that spelt misery.
As the water stretch lessened between them, Pelleas, silent and dark-browed as was his wont, found himself beneath the beck of eyes that gazed like the half-born wonder of the sky at dawn.
While gliding there in the gloom, Arethusa had caught a glimpse of Proserpina on her sable throne, beside the stern-browed Pluto.
Demeter seeks her far and wide, And gloomy-browed doth ceaseless roam From many a morn till eventide.
Now, indeed, is the crown of lilies set upon the life-work of wayworn, sad-browed Palamone!
The other one, that black-browed fellow who stabbed his comrade, said nothing at all, but just looked at me hard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "browed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
