furrowed

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It was furrowed, angled, lean, and harsh to the eye of the observer.

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  1. Having longitudinal channels, ridges, or grooves; sulcate: as, a furrowed stem. Their figures… have round staring eyes, pendant limbs, and furrowed draperies, and represent sculpture at its lowest stage of degradation. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, Int., p. xvii.
  2. Furrowed band a band of indented gray matter connecting the uvula of the cerebellum with the amygdala on either side.

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  • I could never tell why my heart gives a leap at the sound of the simple verse Yes, we love this land of ours Rising from the foam Rugged, furrowed, weather-beaten With its thousand homes Kjerulf's glorious music is, no doubt, in a measure accountable for it; but even apart from that, there is a strangely moving power in the words. —  Essays on Scandinavian Literature
  • He had pushed back the paper cap he wore from his forehead, which was deeply furrowed, and shaded by a few straggling tufts of gray hair. —  Cobwebs and Cables
  • Beside her stood a bearded man, brow furrowed, his pleading eyes upon the doctor, while his hand, big, comforting, rested on the woman's bowed shoulders. —  The Fifth Wheel A Novel
  • Their gaze might wander westward over the ravine-furrowed plains of the Libyan desert without reaching that fabled land of Manu where the sun set every evening; but looking eastward from the valley, they could see the peak of Bâkhű, which marked the limit of regions accessible to man Beyond these regions lay the beginnings of To-nűtri, the land of the gods, and the breezes passing over it were laden with its perfumes, and sometimes wafted them to mortals lost in the desert The perfumes and the odoriferous woods of the Divine Land were celebrated in Egypt. —  History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
  • It is purple, furrowed, and downy, bearing white flowers tinged with pink. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
 

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