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Examples
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He whistled softly through his teeth and a wide-browed bay horse put its head put, blowing through its nostrils.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious
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But a mortal man noticed him as he drove the wide-browed kine straight towards Pylos.
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She saw that a boy of four or five was staring at her from the hall, a boy in gingham shirt and faded corduroy trousers, but large-eyed, firm-mouthed, wide-browed.
Main Street 2004
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She had an intelligent face, delicate but wide-browed.
The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994
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A long, spare, wide-browed face, with a fine scimitar of a nose and a supple bow of a mouth, and the fierce, fearless, golden eyes of a hawk.
The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984
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A long, spare, wide-browed face with a fine scimitar of a nose and a supple bow of a mouth, and the dilated, fearless golden eyes of a hawk.
The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982
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She had a large-boned, classic face—wide-browed, strong-jawed—and large, well-spaced brown eyes, and a slender neck.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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She had a large-boned, classic face—wide-browed, strong-jawed—and large, well-spaced brown eyes, and a slender neck.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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She had a large-boned, classic face—wide-browed, strong-jawed—and large, well-spaced brown eyes, and a slender neck.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
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