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• Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.

  Gordon Korman

  Car, Hip Hop, Moguls

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The 39 Clues #2: One False Note”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Eye, Dark

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1097, First Avenue Editions

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Errors, Law

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea.

  Rachel Vincent

  Ideas, Starting, Pale

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.138, Harlequin

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• They tried to kill me,” he said, his brow furrowed as he glared at them. “You saw them!” “Yeah?” I spouted off. “They weren’t very good at it!” (Trent and Rachel)

  Kim Harrison

  Saws, Yeah, Said

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• "No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by seeing who can break more of your bones." Tod glanced at him, brows raised. "You want to settle our differences?" Nash frowned. "No, I want to break every bone in his body, and I didn't think you'd let me do it alone." Tod nodded. "Good call."

  Rachel Vincent

  Brother, Thinking, Differences

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2011.

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• Loki," I said. "Hey, Princess." He smiled dazedly as he looked up at me. "What's wrong?" "Nothing." I smiled and shook my head. "Not anymore." "What's this?" He took my hair and held it out so i could see. A curl near the front had gone completely silver. "I take a nap, and you go gray?" "You didn't take a nap." I laughed. "Don't you remember what happened?" He furrowed his brow, trying to remember, and understanding flashed in his eyes. "I remember..." Loki touched my face. "I remember that I love you." I bent down, kissing him full on the mouth, and he held me to him.

  Amanda Hocking

  Princess, Love You, Eye

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Ascend: A Trylle Novel”, p.205, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Please let me go." "Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Dice, Chance

  Nora Roberts (1998). “Sea Swept”, p.173, Penguin

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• Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling. "That sounds really dirty." Patch waggled his brows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dirty, Kissing, Mind

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.1106, Simon and Schuster

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• She felt dirty all over and looking over Sebastian, sweat on his brow and his naked torso barely covered by the sheets, she had to swallow back bile at what she'd just done.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dirty, Sweat, Naked

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• Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

  Tessa Dare

  Games, Play, Cry

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• Be forewarned,' the vamp said, 'if I learn that there's anything romantic happening here, I'm sending him packing...less a few body parts.' Kylie's mouth dropped open. 'Romantic? Oh, please, he's old. He's as old as you.' Burnett's brow creased. 'Which is my point.' His frown deepened. 'Not that I'm *that* old.

  C.C. Hunter

  Mouths, Body, Said

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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Business, Spring, Responsibility

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.311, Penguin

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• Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

  Susan Faludi

  Marriage, Panic, Single Women

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• "The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hope, Long, Situation

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• What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Men, Sweat

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• I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.

  Ken Follett

  House, Mirth, My Favorite

  "Ken Follett: Prolific writer, fan of 19th-century novels". Interview by Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 23, 2012.

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• Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be strong, guiding and unselfish. The sweetly sung lullaby; the cool hand on the feverd brow, the Mother's Day smiles and flowers are only a small part of the picture. True mothers have to be made of steel to withstand the difficulties that are sure to beset their children.

  Rachel Billington

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!

  Ryan Reynolds

  Art, Crazy, Men

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• When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

  William H. Gass

  Stupid, Book, Reader

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• The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

  Peter York

  Art, Sunday, Suffering

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• What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

  Robert Breault

  Pride, Sweat, Effort

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• Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Wrinkles, Habit

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• My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Race, Blood

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• Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fire, Secret

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.75, Lulu.com

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