Eyebrows


Eyebrows

 
  1. Black eyebrows going up like a pair of swallows —V. S. Pritchett
  2. A brow like a thunderclap —Peter DeVries
  3. Brows and lashes smudged like charcoal across her face —Kay Boyle
  4. Brows like bended bows —Thomas Campion
  5. Brows … like charcoal arches —Aharon Megged
  6. Brows like strung bows —Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  7. Brows were joined above the nose like the hilt of a large dagger —Saul Bellow
  8. Dark eyebrows like sudden brushstrokes above the deep dark eyes —Sylvia Berkman
  9. (Raising an) eyebrow built like a wooly worm —James Crumley
  10. Eyebrows arched like skipping ropes —Henry James
  11. Eyebrows as big as mustaches —Jilly Cooper
  12. Eyebrows curved like big rainbows above her eyes —J. P. Donleavy
  13. Eyebrows drawn so closely together that they seemed like a hedge blocking her view —Carolyn Slaughter
  14. Eyebrows lifted in pink crescents upturned like the dogwood’s first leaves in spring —Eudora Welty
  15. Eyebrows … like birds of prey —T. Coraghessan Boyle
  16. Eyebrows like commas —John Fowles
  17. Eyebrows like frost —James Dickey
  18. Eyebrows like hanging gardens —Max Shulman
  19. Eyebrows like peaked black thread —Jean Stafford
  20. Eyebrows like undipped hedges —Daphne Merkin
  21. Eyebrows looking like a big iron-grey caterpillar lying along the edge of a cliff —William Faulkner
  22. Eyebrows overhung his eyes like mustaches —John Steinbeck
  23. Eyebrows raised, like hoods on baby-carriages —Eudora Welty
  24. Eyebrows rising like fans —Martin Cruz Smith
  25. Eyebrows thick and full like fur frames —Paige Mitchell
  26. Eyebrows were thick, tough as strips of bark —Truman Capote
  27. A great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view —Victor Hugo
  28. 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
  29. His eyebrows punctuate his speech like hands —Ira Wood
  30. 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.’

  31. (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
  32. Thick, black eyebrows like the wings of a swallow —Maxim Gorky