knit brows
Example Sentences
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Governor Wallace’s hard face and tightly knit brows, plastered on the front of Time magazine some twelve days later, covered the nation’s coffee tables and city newsstands.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
His dark grey eyes flashed beneath his deeply knit brows; his words came viciously from between his set teeth, which shone large and white under his moustache, like polished ivory.
From Footsteps of Fate by Couperus, Louis
The other did not answer; only impatiently moved his injured arm and, regarding him, the down-turned, dark countenance, the knit brows, quickly the priest changed the subject of conversation.
From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart
Giles heard him with lowered head, and knit brows, but he did not resent the brief sermon.
From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames
If Dr. Harrison could have seen the atmosphere of peace and delight his knit brows had left behind them!
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan
