Which preposition to use with eyebrows
" Saying which, the knight cocked a delicate eyebrow in questioning fashion, and laid a slender finger to the pommel of his long sword.
Now quit cocking those automatic eyebrows at me; you've been doing that ever since we met, and they haven't gone off yet, not once.
The sketch represented him with the same broad forehead, smooth, dense light hair, pale blue eyes under eyebrows with a slight frown in them, and the charming mouth rather fully curved, expressing an amiable and pleasure-loving nature.
[Footnote 2: Changngo, the goddess of the moon, gives her name to the finely curved eyebrows of the Chinese ladies, which are compared to the lunar crescent when only a day or two old.]
Monk adjusted his eyebrows to an angle of earnestness and sincerity.
" The young woman looked at him with a hopeless drawing of scant, light eyebrows above bulging gray eyes.
Monk trained the eyebrows into a look of long-suffering patience.
Milton Kennedy, scrutineer, lifted his eyebrows as per agreement.
He was a striking-looking man, very tall, slender, about fifty years old, swarthy, with hair as black as night, and eyebrows like small mustaches, the eyes themselves in caverns, usually dull and dour, but when he talked, spots of light.
We see the old man ride in rich clothing, with gloves sewn with golden thread, and with a hat brought from Garderige; we see the youth with a golden fillet around his brow; we see him at the Thing; we see him in battle and in play, where the best is he that can cut off the other's eyebrows without scratching the skin, or causing a wink with the eyes, on pain of losing his station.
" "Our lads saw her over at the Orangemen's ball in Millford, and they said Rance Belmont was with her more than her own man," said Mrs. Berry, as she melted the frost from her eyebrows by holding her face over the stove.
" He raised his eyebrows for a moment, then laughed.
"Arching eyebrows on a maid, With love the genii would entice, I'd buy her for a thousand reaux, Even if exile were the price.
His head was sunk between his shoulders, and right across his face, from the left eyebrow over the cheek and as far as his ear, he had a hideous crimson scar, which told up vividly against the ghastly pallor of his face.
Has she more hairs on one eyebrow than the other?
"I trust mademoiselle is satisfied," he concluded with a mockingly civil movement of eyebrows toward Liane.
He was seen to great advantage in a hat and greatcoatgarments frequently fatal to the impressiveness of shorter figures; but when he was uncovered in the drawing-room, it was impossible not to observe that his head shelved off too rapidly from the eyebrows towards the crown, and that his length of limb seemed to have used up his mind so as to cause an air of abstraction from conversational topics.
On the opposite seat were two Belgian officersan elderly man with a white moustache and grizzled eyebrows under his high képi and a young man in a tasselled forage cap, like a boy-student.