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"Really, I can't say—I presume it is the—really, I hardly remember—" Mr. Bonnithorne's suavity of tone and customary smile broke down into silence and a look of lowering anxiety.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

But his face became overclouded suddenly by a lowering anxiety.

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie