Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine; Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry.
Low foreheads and skins as black as Guinea negroes.
The Clear Lake Indians are of a very degraded caste; their foreheads naturally being often as low as the compressed skulls of the Chinooks, and their forms commonly small and ungainly.
Herrera states that it was customary to scorch the faces of young children to prevent the growth of their beards, and the men allowed the hair to grow down over the eyebrows, making their heads and foreheads flat on purpose.
Their features are more regular than those of their neighbors, more expressive of boldness, frankness, and candor; their foreheads higher, and their complexions lighter.
Long nose, high cheek bones, large ugly mouth, very long eyes, and foreheads villainously low.
Both men and women," Mr. Paupa Rao writes, "have tattoo marks on their foreheads and forearms.
Bashingams (chaplets) are tied on theforeheads of the bridal pair at the outset of the ceremonial, and are worn for five days.
After the Chetti has received his fee, he smears the foreheads of the guilty person and the company with sacred ashes.
For a moment he rushed aimlessly and madly about the room, while the priest and the slave remained upon hands and knees with their foreheads against the floor.
I and my warriors lay our foreheads upon the feet of Dor-ul-Otho and pray that he will aid us in our righteous fight with Lu-don, the high priest.
And Tarzan of the Apes came then and put his arms around them both, and the King of Pal-ul-don and the warriors and the people kneeled in the temple court and placed their foreheads to the ground before the altar where the three stood.
Now and then the men stopped to wipe the sweat from their foreheads and to take long swallows from the water jugs, hidden, for coolness, under a mound of hay.
Some of the younger ones would laugh and tap their foreheads when he had gone past them.
The sisters put their arms round each other, and pressing their foreheads against the window panes, looked out into the sunny yard, from which clouds of dust were whirling to the sky.
Men gasped in awe; some touched their foreheads prone to the marble floor as a boat of gold, its prow a serpent's head with gleaming ruby eyes, came up out of the water and floated upon the surface.
And the mountains of Italy have put powder on their foreheads and noses.
I think of the Russian peasants with their foreheads in the dust, and the greasy, long-haired priests I see on the streets.
Instead of loving and honouring of them that did bear in their foreheads the name, and in their lives the image of Christ, they should be his song, the matter of his jests, and the objects of his slanders.
Their face is made strong against the face of their enemies, and their foreheads strong against their foreheads (Eze 3:8,9).
Their complexion is dark, but not disagreeably so; their faces are oval, their features regular, their foreheads rather low, and their hands and feet small.
Those who die the martyr's death will have part in the first resurrection, because they did not worship the beast nor received his mark on their foreheads (Rev.
With the inkhorn at his side, he set the mark upon the foreheads of the faithful ones.
The silver rays struck upon their foreheads wet with the vapors of night, and made them like frost seen through phosphorus.
Like Jove's locks awry, Long muscadines Rich-wreathe the spacious foreheads of great pines, And breathe ambrosial passion from their vines.
These men know the distinctive marks of all the castes, and for small fees paint the proper signs upon the foreheads of their patrons, who wear them with great pride.
Siena was feasting, and the waiters furtively swept their foreheads with their coat-sleeves as they ran in and out of the trattorie.
So the assembly rose to their feet and, as I saw, swept from their foreheads and breasts the dust of the temple floor.
Numbers of them have flat foreheads and noses, but these features are entirely the work of the parents, soon after their birth.
Here, upon the border which limits thy domains, we pledge anew to thee the promise of fealty, of which the crimson star upon our foreheads is the token.
Upon your foreheads ye wear still the pledge of obedience to me, with whom rests alone the power of life and death.
Of threads of palm was the carpet spun Whereon he kneels when the day is done, And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one!
Most of them, if poor themselves, would slap their foreheads and despair, but think it their duty to their country to forget the girl.
I saw several move about the streets with drooping heads and miserable looks--the signs upon their foreheadsproclaimed their speedy dissolution.
This delirium is moderated by strewing ashes on the foreheads of the sufferers.
Innumerable streams gurgled beneath their shadows; innumerable lakes gleamed in the fiery sunsets; innumerable mountains bared their rocky foreheads to the wind.
I would not for the world be mistaken for one of those literary roughs whose brass knuckles leave their mark on the foreheads of so many inoffensive people.
At five or ten or fifteen years old they put their hands up to their foreheads and ask, What are they strapping down my brains in this way for?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreheads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
