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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overbrow .
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Examples
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He was not within view; and, while she wondered, and congratulated herself on a possibility of escaping, she perceived a Monk walking silently beneath the dark rocks that overbrowed the beach.
The Italian 2004
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It was a quaint, dim room, overbrowed and gloomed by the roofed projection of the stoop; low-ceiled, high-wainscoted and paneled.
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A merry sparkle in the depths of his hazel eyes relieved the shadows of rather notably heavy lids, themselves heavily overbrowed -- with a suggestion of character which had not yet asserted itself to those who knew him best.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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A merry sparkle in the depths of his hazel eyes relieved the shadows of rather notably heavy lids, themselves heavily overbrowed -- with a suggestion of character which had not yet asserted itself to those who knew him best.
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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