brow
/bɹaʊ/ verb C2- To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
He/she/it brows · Past browed · Past participle browed · -ing form browing
Verb forms
- Base form
- brow
- He/she/it
- brows
- Past
- browed
- Past participle
- browed
- -ing form
- browing
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“Yet,” stammered Dantès, wiping the perspiration from his brow,—“yet I gave you two hundred francs when I left, three months ago.”
The bride blushed, while Fernand, restless and uneasy, seemed to start at every fresh sound, and from time to time wiped away the large drops of perspiration that gathered on his brow.
Fernand closed his eyes, a burning sensation passed across his brow, and he was compelled to support himself by the table to prevent his falling from his chair; but in spite of all his efforts, he could not refrain from uttering a deep groan, which, however, was lost amid the noisy felicitations of the company.
He had recognized intelligence in the high forehead, courage in the dark eye and bent brow, and frankness in the thick lips that showed a set of pearly teeth.
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