Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marked or carved with furrows.
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Examples
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Prov., makes them hollow-eyed, pale, and lean, furrow-faced, to have dead looks, wrinkled brows, shrivelled cheeks, dry bodies, and quite perverts their temperature that are misaffected with it.
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To which telegram the tall, lank, furrow-faced man in the White House whose kindly heart was bursting with the strain replied in characteristic fashion and told him that his purpose was exactly right.
The Littlest Rebel Edward Henry Peple 1896
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"She concluded by adding her personal, as opposed to official, condolences, taking care to remind the furrow-faced old human with both word and gesture that more than a few of her own kind had perished in the course of the incident.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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"She concluded by adding her personal, as opposed to official, condolences, taking care to remind the furrow-faced old human with both word and gesture that more than a few of her own kind had perished in the course of the incident.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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