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And that was what he did, when Hugh came in the afternoon, grimfaced and blackbrowed, to probe the loss of his felon.
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The Cossacks spared not the blackbrowed gentlewomen, the brilliant, white-bosomed maidens: these could not save themselves even at the altar, for Taras burned them, with the altar itself.
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She was a tall, stalwart, blackbrowed, red-cheeked young woman, and her name (Gigi's eyes flashed proudly, as he announced it) her name was Carolina Maddalena.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland 1883
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Clara's father -- he used sometimes when drunk to ask his wife, 'Who got you your blackbrowed she-devil there?
Dream Tales and Prose Poems Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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The blackbrowed Marseillese, rallying on the instant, have become black
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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It is to this hour uncertain whether the Squadron on the Pont Neuf made the shadow of resistance, or did not make the shadow: enough, the blackbrowed
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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They march there, the grim host; Saint-Antoine on this side of the River; Saint-Marceau on that, the blackbrowed Marseillese in the van.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Preternatural suspicion, doubt, disquietude, nameless anticipation, from shore to shore: -- and those blackbrowed Marseillese, marching, dusty, unwearied, through the midst of it; not doubtful they.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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But the blackbrowed Marseillese have struck down the Tyrant of the
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Chateau barriers, and eastern Courts; irresistible, loud-surging far and wide; -- breaks in, fills the Court of the Carrousel, blackbrowed
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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