1872 E. Yates Waiting Race I. ii. 47 There was a neat paragraph in the fashionable journals,..which caused a great deal of eyebrow-raising at the London clubs.

1903 Daily Mail 28 Feb. 7/4 Perhaps the good ladies of Southminster had some cause for their eyebrow raising.

1942 H. Abend Ramparts of Pacific i. 11 Any eyebrow-raising concerning this bland assumption was promptly squelched as a display of bad manners.

1963 Washington Post 24 Nov. g4/1 There was some eyebrow-raising in Broadway circles when Carol Channing suddenly abandoned a proven profitable venture..to speculate with a new project.

2002 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 6 Jan. 15 In the four years I worked there I saw plenty that was unorthodox enough to cause serious eyebrow-raising, at least, in any other workplace.

1913 E. K. Wallace Quest of Dream ii. 152 I don't see why they [sc. cigarettes] are n't far less harmful than the cocktails the eyebrow-raising sisters get away without blinking.

1981 G. C. Taylor Scarlet Thread 132 How can a preacher not grow tired of preaching to tight-lipped, dull-eyed, cold-spirited, eyebrow-raising people who call themselves Christians?

1922 National Advocate Sept. 9/2 This has been in part obvious and just what might have been expected and in part rather eyebrow-raising.

1952 C. E. Nowell Hist. Portugal ix. 126 The plot..bore just enough resemblance to a recent eyebrow-raising occurrence in the Portuguese royal family to make certain people think it in questionable taste.

1978 Third Way Oct. 27/2 The bias against him is eyebrow-raising at times.

1991 Gay Times Mar. 52/2 He had already published his first novel, an eyebrow-raising account of life at Marlborough College.

2008 D. Hajdu Ten-cent Plague (2009) 240 Wertham selected acutely provocative images, of course, and he amplified their impact with eyebrow-raising descriptions.