2847 examples of frowning in sentences

" Away in one of the Sixth Form studies the subject of their conversation was sitting with his hands in his pockets, frowning at the fire.

She shivered a little when she met his frowning looks, and turned away.

To feel that is to feel something urging you" He stopped, frowning.

But Nancy Carey, never shy, and as eager to give herself as people always are who are born and bred in joy and love, Nancy hopped out of Mother Carey's warm nest one day, and fixing her bright eyes and sunny, hopeful glance on the lonely, frowning little neighbor, stretched out her hand in friendship.

Each time, however, the sun's rays soon came to undeceive him; and that which had so lately been black and frowning was, as by the touch of magic, suddenly illuminated, and became bright and gorgeous, throwing out its emerald hues, or perhaps a virgin white, that filled the beholder with delight, even amid the terrors and dangers by which, in very truth, he was surrounded.

This was rendered so much the more so by its loneliness, its stable and stern position amid floating and moving mountains of ice, its brown sides and bald summit, the latter then recently whitened with a fall of pure snow, and its frowning and fixed aspect amid a scene that might otherwise be said to be ever in motion.

Miss Bradshaw, glanced from him to the frowning Mr. Wright, and then, entering the parlour, closed the door with a bang.

" "He's made an awful mess," said his wife, frowning; "it'll take me the rest of the day to clean up.

" "Where is she?" inquired Mr. Davis, frowning.

Miss Bradshaw, glanced from him to the frowning Mr. Wright, and then, entering the parlour, closed the door with a bang.

I told the stern Minerva all that passed, But for my pains, discarded and disgraced, The frowning goddess drove me from her sight,

"Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course," he said, in a very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him.

There, on the river-side, you may admire the gigantic pepper-trees, or the silvery leaves of the Calathea, the lofty bamboo, or the fragrant Pothos, the curious Cyclanthus, or frowning nettles, some of the latter from ten to twelve feet high.

"I was coming down to Mateka to put in some extra work on the design for my paddle," she replied, in her rich, vibrating voice, "and I was frowning because I was a little puzzled how I was going to work it out.

But though they rise not so high above the water, they go down a long way below it; so that there is fifty fathom right up to the cliff, and many a good craft out of reckoning in fog, or on a pitch-dark night, has run full against that frowning wall, and perished, ship and crew, without a soul to hear their cries.

Care delights to see you frowning, Loves to hear you sigh; Turn a smiling face upon her, Quick the dame will fly. Smile a little, smile a little, All along the road; Every life must have its burden, Every heart its load.

Captain Bligh leaned back frowning, and from sheer force of habit passed the ends of his moustache slowly through his fingers.

He walked along by his side, silent and frowning.

" One month and fifteen days upon the sea, Thus far the voyagers are on their way; Now black before them lies a barren shore, O'ertopped with frowning cliffs, whence comes a roar Of some dread fury of the elements That shakes the air and sweeping wrath foments O'er winds and seas.

a radiant stream of light Defending, gilds the murky cloud, Where Desolation's gloomy night Retiring, folds her sable shroud; It flashes o'er the bright'ning deep, It softens Britain's frowning steep 'Tis mild benignant Peace, enchanting form!

cried she, who art thou?" From the roof to the ground did his fierce answer ring, As frowning, he thunder'd " I am the PAINT-KING!

" Coquenil sat silent frowning.

"Never mind why," answered the other brusquely, and he walked ahead, frowning, until they reached an imposing entrance with stately palms on the white stone floor and the glimpse of an imposing stairway.

It seemed as though my old uncle, with frowning brow, was at my very heels.

" In his excitement he rose and strode about the room, his face frowning, his slender figure erect, martial even in its civilian dress.

2847 examples of  frowning  in sentences