111 examples of frown upon in sentences

"Youth," said the friar, frowning up into Beltane's gentle eyes, "thou hast this day put thy soul in jeopardythe Church doth frown upon this thy deed!"

His revers'd face may show distaste, And frown upon the ills are past; But that which this way looks is clear, And smiles upon the New-born Year.

" Romilly made light of the matter, but there was a slight frown upon his forehead as they passed along the curiously stationary deck.

He listened attentively, a frown upon his somewhat narrow forehead.

Tom Barker, as supreme boss, visited all crews, and then returned to his wife, with either a leer or a frown upon his face.

Phineas Duge looked toward the door with a frown upon his face.

Rushton" At the same moment the door of Mr. Rushton's room opened, and that gentleman made his appearance, shaggy and iratea frown upon his brow, and a man-eating expression on his compressed lips.

The purport of the poem, it may be said, however, is to frown upon revolutionary attempts to alter the position of women, of scholastically be-gowned and college-capped dames, who would seek by other than nature's ways to put the sex upon an equality with man, while repressing their own individuality, doing violence to their maternal instincts, and trampling upon their "gracious household ways."

"I am astonished," says Moll, returning from the door, and addressing Simon, with a frown upon her brow, "that you are not better furnished to supply my wants, knowing by my letter how I stand.

I also besought them, as men of intelligence and piety, to frown upon the ridiculous and contemptible prejudice against colour wherever it might appear.

Till I found him lying low, With the gash upon his bosom, And the frown upon his brow

Hence the citizens of every State should studiously avoid everything calculated to wound the sensibility or offend the just pride of the people of other States, and they should frown upon any proceedings within their own borders likely to disturb the tranquillity of their political brethren in other portions of the Union.

"The consequence is, that they frown upon everyone whose faults or negligence interrupts or retards their lessons.

In our time, at all events, Beauty has never walked the streets with so frank a radiance, so confident an air of security, and in her eyes and in her carriage, as in her subtly shaped and subtly scented garments, so conspicuous a challenge to the musty, outworn, proprieties to frown upon her all they please.

" "It is not because I frown upon the merchant's calling, sir.

It is useless to point to passages like this (again from Burton): "Polienus, when his mistress Circe did but frown upon him, in Petronius, drew his sword, and bade her kill, stab, or whip him to death, he would strip himself naked and not resist.

And now, sweet Will, fie upon thee that thou didst frown upon thy townsman.

Passed over the bleakest district I had yet seen, called Old Ord, a cold, rough, cloud-breeding region that the very heavens above seem to frown upon with a scowl of dissatisfaction.

He was sitting near the window, with his arms crossed, and with a fierce frown upon his forehead.

At that moment the door of the room was opened, and Mrs. Mountjoy entered, with a frown upon her brow.

Thus the heathen origin of the midsummer festival is too palpable to escape the attention of good Mohammedans, who accordingly frown upon the midsummer bonfires as pagan superstitions, precisely as similar observances in Europe have often been denounced by orthodox Christianity.

Again Nobili glances round; this time there is the shadow of a frown upon his smooth brow.

But assuredly unless we arouse the slave to seize the torch and the dagger, and avenge the wrongs of his race, Providence will frown upon our efforts, and our arms will not prevail.

The other schools of psychic healing, generally known as "mental healing," "spiritual healing," "divine healing," etc., generally frown upon the use of the hands in psychic healing, deeming it "too material," and too much allied to hypnotism, etc.

The "Reds" were for giving a reception to the visitors in Regentsen, the great dormitory where, as an Iceland student, Finsen had free lodging; but it was certain that the Dean would frown upon such a proposition.

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