"Her flowing hair," says the knight, "is of gold, her forehead the Elysian fields, her eyebrows two celestial arches, her eyes a pair of glorious suns, her cheeks two beds of roses, her lips two coral portals that guard her teeth of Oriental pearl, her neck is alabaster, her hands are polished ivory, and her bosom whiter than the new-fallen snow.

she exclaimed, elevating her eyebrows a good deal more than was usual with her, "if that isn't Mr Croft!"

His broadcloth had a dingy aspect, his hair and beard and eyebrows the hue of a cobweb.

From under his great shaggy eyebrows a pair of wild, sunken eyes gleamed ferociously, but there was a smile upon his lips.