BROW

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brow substantiv

1. sprânceană;

to knit / pucker one's / the brows a-şi încrunta sprâncenele, a se încrunta.

2. (poetic) frunte.

3. expresie a feţei, mină;

to clear up one's brow a se lumina la faţă;

to smooth / unbend the brow a-şi descreţi fruntea;

to put up one's brow a se posomorî la chip.

4. ieşitură (de stâncă etc.); pantă abruptă; margine (de prăpastie).

5. (mar.) schelă.

6. (mine) galerie transversală.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Now give me your hand, and place it here across my brow, that I may see that which you have seen.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle’s brow cleared, and he began to laugh.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Van Helsing seemed surprised, and his brows gathered as if in thought, but he said nothing.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Holmes’s brow was dark with anxiety.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But give me leave to ask you, Mr. What's-your-name; and here Mr. Creakle folded his arms, cane and all, upon his chest, and made such a knot of his brows that his little eyes were hardly visible below them; whether, when you talk about favourites, you showed proper respect to me?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The eyes—and it was my destiny to know them well—were large and handsome, wide apart as the true artist’s are wide, sheltering under a heavy brow and arched over by thick black eyebrows.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

“There they are, nephew! On the brow of the hill!”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is there not enough there to cloud a lady's brow?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had evidently read it, and was thinking it over as he sat with his hand to his brow.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

For an instant she sat up, her cheeks flushed, and her eyes blazing from under the terrible mark upon her brow.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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