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Example sentences for "her brow"

  • What peremptory eagle-sighted eye Dares look upon the heaven of her brow That is not blinded by her majesty?

  • Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt, that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

  • While he mused, Flora, enraged both for him and against him, and with the rage burning in her eye and on her brow, stood before her seated grandmother, mutely giving gaze for gaze until the elder knew.

  • As quietly her eyes held the doctor's, and his hers, while the colour mounted to her brow.

  • And, for the first time in her life, he imprinted a kiss on her brow.

  • Inez answered not, but passed her hand wearily across her brow.

  • He lifted the hair from his arm, and gently drew his hand from hers; yet, save for the icy coldness of her brow, none would have known that the soul which lent such gentle loveliness to the countenance had flown home to God.

  • Aunt Lizzy was suffering from violent nervous headache: all day she had tossed restlessly about, and now, soothed by the gentle touches on her brow, had fallen asleep.

  • Teen was silent as she put her long hat-pin through the heavy masses of her hair and pulled her fringe a little lower on her brow; but she thought a great deal.

  • Liz gave a great start, and her pallor vanished, the red mounting high to her brow.

  • Gladys cast a startled glance in the direction indicated and the colour mounted high to her brow, then faded quite, leaving her rather strikingly pale.

  • She had given honest value, double and treble, in the sweat of her brow.

  • It was hers, earned, all too literally, in the sweat of her brow.

  • She strenuously wiped away the traces of her tears, and shook back the hair from her brow, with a resolute motion.

  • It might be because a slight cloud rested on her brow.

  • I thought there was a shade of sadness on her brow.

  • How charmingly the moonbeams play upon her brow!

  • A buxom bride is Edith the Fair, and fair looked her face in her sleep on yester noon, when I sate by her side, and breathed on her brow, and murmured the verse that blackens the dream; but fairer still shall she look in her sleep by her lord.

  • The drops stood on her brow, and her limbs tottered under the weight, but her heart was strong, and her eyes shone with love.

  • But, as she raised her hands to her brow to wipe away the damps that had formed on it, her eye caught sight of the leaden ring, and with a cry of horror she sank again into insensibility.

  • But her husband just stooped and pressed his lips to her brow, and after that kissed the tiny morsels at her side.

  • She was lying on the sofa, and Martha was applying a moistened kerchief to her brow.

  • She resumed her seat; put her hands to her brow.

  • She came in again presently, with cheeks glowing and eyes sparkling, not a cloud on her brow.

  • I think I shall care more for that than to have them look pretty to myself," she answered, with a look of eager delight, the cloud having entirely cleared from her brow.

  • I find the lustre of her brow, Come o'er me in my darkest ways; And feel as if her voice, even now, Were echoing far off my lays.

  • Can these delights that wait her now Call up no sunshine on her brow?

  • Her brown hair rippled o'er her brow, but greatest charm of all Was her modest blue eyes beaming 'neath her ould plaid shawl.

  • Mary fetched some water and bathed her brow, and the burning wound in her head, and by the time Selene had once more opened her eyes, dame Hannah had returned.

  • I can see the restless spirit of my model in her brow and in her mouth, and her nature is revealed in her eyes.

  • Nor or was the contrast less striking between the Ellen of the present meeting and the Ellen of the last; then wretchedness, misery, inward fever, consumed her outward frame, and left its scorching brand upon her brow.

  • Her head, which she once bore so airily and freely, drooped a little: slight furrows had been traced upon her brow.

  • The child stood upon the threshold, as if she meant again to run off; laid her right hand on her breast, the left on her brow, and bowed deeply.

  • But presently she fell silent again, looking straight ahead with a little frown on her brow.

  • She stopped, a faint flush mounting to her brow.

  • Her woman's instinct divined what the "something particular" must be, and she laughed softly and joyously, while the color mounted to her brow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    feet thick; heat from; her aunt; her bed; her brain; her breast; her child; her childhood; her companions; her cousin; her face; her last; her little; her maid; her place; her side; her time; her voice; her way; her young bairn she; here described; here have; here intended; here made; here mentioned; hereby ordered