These young women were tall, well-grown, black-browed girls, fond of fun, and having great health and spirits.

Here suffering virtue ever finds relief, And black-browed ruffians always come to grief.

Even when wild tempests swallow up the plains, And Boreas' blasts, big hail, and rains combine To shake the groves and mountains, would I sit, Pensively musing on th' outrageous crimes That wake Heaven's vengeance: at such solemn hours, Demons and goblins through the dark air shriek, While Hecat, with her black-browed sisters nine, Bides o'er the Earth, and scatters woes and death.

Her eyes moved to Whaley's black-browed, bloodless face.

" Here, thou black-browed child of Shaitan, aim, and aim for thy life.

My particular Intermediate happened to be empty till I reached Nasirabad, when a big black-browed gentleman in shirt-sleeves entered, and, following the custom of Intermediates, passed the time of day.

The Signorina Baci-Roventi alone, black-browed, muscular, and five feet ten in her shoes, would have been almost a match for him alone; but she was backed by Signor Pompeo Stromboli, who weighed fifteen stone in his fur coat, was as broad as he was long, and had been seen to run off the stage with Madame Bonanni in his arms while he yelled a high G that could have been heard in Westminster if the doors had been open.

For thine is a deed which the Dead shall tell Where a King black-browed in the gloom carouses; And the cold grey hand at the helm and oar Which guideth shadows from shore to shore, Shall bear this day o'er the Tears that Well, A Queen of women, a spouse of spouses.

P. 25, l. 436 ff., Chorus.]The "King black-browed" is, of course, Hades; the "grey hand at the helm and oar," Charon; the "Tears that

Besides, she the most delicate, sweet countenanced, black-browed gentlewoman in Northamptonshire, in substance equals the best of them.

The Fiends of Darkness gathered lie in wait, With Mammitu, the goddess of fierce hate, And Gibil with his spells, and Nibiru The twin-god of black Fate, and grim Nusku The keeper of red thunders, and Urbat The dog of Death, and fiend of Queen Belat; And Nuk-khu, and the black-browed Ed-hutu The gods of darkness here with Tsi-lat-tu.

Pa Werner faced him, black-browed.

[Illustration: 'A black-browed officer came to the rail.'] Ken, watching eagerly, saw a bright flash light the side of the steamer, close under her stern, and as a cloud of smoke floated up, the crash of the explosion came back to his ears.

A black-browed officer, with angry eyes, came to the rail, and answered in the same language.

The words were hardly out of his mouth before the black-browed officer flung up his arm, with a pistol gripped in his fist, and fired straight at Commander Strang's head.

Sooty and black-browed albatrosses continue, with Cape chickens.

The next night came,no news, no identification of my black-browed man, no success; but I felt certain that something must transpire in that cellar.

I felt, nevertheless, more buoyant than usual,whether because I was now to put my fate to the test, or that today was the one of which my black-browed man had spoken, and I therefore entertained a presentiment of good-fortune, I cannot say.

" He threw open a door suddenly, and we looked into an underground hall, where a dozen men were carousingDuke Casimir's Hussars of Death, black-browed, evil-faced, slack-jowled villains every man of them, cruel and sensual.

Gregg Powers, a tall, dark-haired, black-eyed, black-browed young senator, from Akron, had just pronounced a fervent, indignant, sarcastic and bitter phillipic against it, when, after midnight, Wade arose, with angry brow and flashing eye.

She opened her eyes wide with a curious conviction that there was a cat in the room, and then all in a moment she met the cool, repellent stare of the black-browed doctor whom Burke had brought from Ritzen.

The landlord, a sullen, black-browed man, who had hitherto leaned silently on the counter, taking no part in the fray, now interposed.

"Portly nurse, black-browed, red-vested, Knits and dozes, drowsed with heat; Bice, like a wren gold-crested, Chirps and teases round her seat, Hides the needles, plucks the stocking, rolls the cotton o'er her feet.

These had for generations been grave mental workers: ministers, lawyers, professors in theological seminaries; narrow-minded, strong-minded; upright, unbending; black-browed, black-coated; with a passion always for dealing in justice and dealing out justice, human or heavenly; most of all, gratified when in theological seminaries, when they could assert themselves as inerrant interpreters of the Most High.

A man, black-browed, black-robed, black-bearded, looked down into his eyes as one who had authority to speak.