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  • But an alarm should sound whenever the word "literal" is used in this context, whether as a badge of pride "I just believe in reading the Bible literally" or as a hint that low-browed fundamentalists are lurking nearby.

    No One Reads the Bible Literally John Wilson 2011

  • She was a pretty, low-browed creature; darkly pretty, with a well-favored body, and for all that the type was mean, he could not escape the charm of her over-brimming vitality.

    CHAPTER 20 2010

  • It lay half hidden beneath the roots of several massive oaks and was set directly into the rock face of a low-browed cliff.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • Spikes and blades projected from its burnished armor and a fringed helmet adorned the low-browed skull.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • On the top of the low-browed head was a tangled thatch of wool through which emerged a pair of knob-like horns.

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • Peter McKay shoved the wicked little weapon over the table-top to the low-browed individual who faced him.

    "Power" by Harl Vincent, part 8 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Regardless, this priceless find demonstrates some truly remarkable feats that our ancestors were able to achieve using nothing more than buttercream, a few simple tools, and the belief that any woman who plays tennis is a low-browed neanderthal with a thyroid problem.

    Old Time Wreck 'n Roll 2009

  • Regardless, this priceless find demonstrates some truly remarkable feats that our ancestors were able to achieve using nothing more than buttercream, a few simple tools, and the belief that any woman who plays tennis is a low-browed neanderthal with a thyroid problem.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • On the surface I give them the “striking likeness,” as they call it, that they all stand and gape at in astonishment — [Lowers his voice] — but at bottom they are all respectable, pompous horse-faces, and self-opinionated donkey-muzzles, and lop-eared, low-browed dog-skulls, and fatted swine-snouts — and sometimes dull, brutal bull-fronts as well — —

    When We Dead Awaken 2008

  • But it was long ere the efforts of Ravenswood, though loudly exerted by knocking at the low-browed entrance, and repeated shouts to Caleb to open the gate and admit them, received any answer.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

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