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  • He whistled softly through his teeth and a wide-browed bay horse put its head put, blowing through its nostrils.

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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

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • But a mortal man noticed him as he drove the wide-browed kine straight towards Pylos.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • 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

  • She had an intelligent face, delicate but wide-browed.

    The Cat Who Came To Breakfast Braun, Lilian Jackson 1994

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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