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The mysterious countenance hidden by the Prophet's veil seduces his followers into zealous obedience after he promises them a glimpse of his brow if they are victorious in battle; they are "Ready to risk their eyes, could they but gaze/A moment on that brow's miraculous blaze!"
Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000
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His cheeks like the new rose, his brow's like the snaw
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Ah, -- I knew by that pale brow's deepening gloom,
Poems of the Heart and Home J. C. Yule
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And often, when slumber had cool'd my brow's fever,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Slight melting drops upon uncovered brow's arch, spillover from forehead's incline.
NATURAE Dom
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She had perceived, she thought, a relation between it and the clouded brow, and was bent on finding for the brow's owner as amazing a part in the tale as could be contrived by any piecing together of its facts which did not absolutely mutilate them.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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Lord Hartledon put back the curtain, and stood leaning out at the open window, seeking a breath of air that hot summer's night, though indeed there was none to be found; and if there had been, it could not have cooled the brow's inward fever.
Elster's Folly Henry Wood 1850
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On your play-ground of boyhood unbend the brow's care,
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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On your play-ground of boyhood unbend the brow's care,
Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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On your play-ground of boyhood unbend the brow's care,
Occasional Poems Part 3 from Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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