Meaning of eye-brow | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“Don’t you think⟳, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow ſtippled very prettily?”

“When that gentleman came from the city, and was welcomed in the drawing-room by his daughters and the elegant Miss⟳ Wirt, they saw⟳ at once by his face⟳—which was puffy, solemn, and yellow at the best of times—and by the scowl and twitching of his black eye-brows, that the heart within his large white waistcoat was disturbed and uneasy.”

“Nadia’s grandmother is that extremely rare thing in Chekhov’s work⟳, an almost entirely negative character. This is brought out in his opening description of her, which emphasises her physical repulsiveness: ‘Grandmother, or, as she was called at home “babulia”, was very fat, ugly, with thick eye-brows and a little moustache.[…]’”

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