Eyebrow

Examples

• The deceased, you know, says Mr. Snagsby, twitching his head and right eyebrow towards the staircase and tapping his acquaintance on the button. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sir James's brow had a little crease in it, a little depression of the eyebrow, which he seemed purposely to exaggerate as he answered. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I asked, recoiling from the brute, as Wemmick spat upon his eyebrow and gave it a rub with his sleeve. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In a moment the butcher lights ten thousand candles out of my left eyebrow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Certain splashes of white show in high relief upon his dirty face, and he scrapes his one eyebrow with the handle of the brush. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr Venus rubs an eyebrow, interrogatively. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had banged his head as he climbed into the armored car and it had made a small cut over his eyebrow that bled down onto his face. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• When Mr. Edison is thinking seriously over a problem he is in the habit of pulling his right eyebrow, which he did now for fifteen or twenty seconds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This chap (why you must have come down in the night and been peeping into the inkstand, to get this blot upon your eyebrow, you old rascal! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Holmes glanced at it, raised his eyebrows, and handed it over to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• As he has said it, returned madame, lifting her eyebrows a little, it is probably false. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I don't know, says Krook, shaking his head and lifting his eyebrows. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At last, he said, There was an old gentleman, with thick eyebrows, and a broad hat, and large chain and seals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The tempter merely lifted his eyebrows; but the whelp was obliged to go on. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Glancing towards Mr and Mrs Boffin, she very slightly raised her eyebrows, as though inquiring of her husband: 'Do I notice anything wrong here? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Archer raised his eyebrows enquiringly at Nastasia, who raised hers in return with a fatalistic Gia! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He had thick bushy eyebrows, with little twinkling bloodshot eyes, surrounded by a thousand wrinkles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• With such eyebrows, and a look so decidedly bilious, how was he to extract that money from the governor, of which George was consumedly in want? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I knew my traveller with his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was obviously embarrassed for an instant, while the Inspector raised his eyebrows, and Alec Cunningham burst into a laugh. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• As they go upstairs, Mr. Guppy lifts his eyebrows inquiringly and looks at Tony. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Only to show you my meaning clearly,' said the Jew, raising his eyebrows. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It twitched her nostrils open in a remarkable manner, and contracted her lips and eyebrows. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The boy's right,' remarked Fagin, looking covertly round, and knitting his shaggy eyebrows into a hard knot. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

Edited by Edith