Eyebrows
Eyebrows
- Black eyebrows going up like a pair of swallows —V. S. Pritchett
- A brow like a thunderclap —Peter DeVries
- Brows and lashes smudged like charcoal across her face —Kay Boyle
- Brows like bended bows —Thomas Campion
- Brows … like charcoal arches —Aharon Megged
- Brows like strung bows —Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Brows were joined above the nose like the hilt of a large dagger —Saul Bellow
- Dark eyebrows like sudden brushstrokes above the deep dark eyes —Sylvia Berkman
- (Raising an) eyebrow built like a wooly worm —James Crumley
- Eyebrows arched like skipping ropes —Henry James
- Eyebrows as big as mustaches —Jilly Cooper
- Eyebrows curved like big rainbows above her eyes —J. P. Donleavy
- Eyebrows drawn so closely together that they seemed like a hedge blocking her view —Carolyn Slaughter
- Eyebrows lifted in pink crescents upturned like the dogwood’s first leaves in spring —Eudora Welty
- Eyebrows … like birds of prey —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Eyebrows like commas —John Fowles
- Eyebrows like frost —James Dickey
- Eyebrows like hanging gardens —Max Shulman
- Eyebrows like peaked black thread —Jean Stafford
- Eyebrows like undipped hedges —Daphne Merkin
- Eyebrows looking like a big iron-grey caterpillar lying along the edge of a cliff —William Faulkner
- Eyebrows overhung his eyes like mustaches —John Steinbeck
- Eyebrows raised, like hoods on baby-carriages —Eudora Welty
- Eyebrows rising like fans —Martin Cruz Smith
- Eyebrows thick and full like fur frames —Paige Mitchell
- Eyebrows were thick, tough as strips of bark —Truman Capote
- A great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view —Victor Hugo
- His brows … brindled with grey and tufted like the pelt of a beast. They looked like structural beams, raised into a position that would support the weight of his knowledge and authority —John Cheever
- His eyebrows punctuate his speech like hands —Ira Wood
- Knitted his brows like sharply molded steel —D. H. Lawrence
The text of Women in Love, where this appeared, used the English spelling ‘moulded’ instead of ‘molded.’
- (When she was excited she liked to) raise first one thin eyebrow and then the other so that they almost leapt off her face like antennae —Molly Giles
- Thick, black eyebrows like the wings of a swallow —Maxim Gorky