pale-browed

I thought of a student of Kazan whom I had known in the days of the past, of a young fellow from Viatka who, pale-browed, and sententious of diction, might almost have been brother to the ex - soldier himself.

Through Russia 2003

It was only in Paul that the grandfather's aesthetic faculty revived, and Mrs. Ambrose used often to say to her husband, as they watched the little pale-browed boy poring over an old number of the Art Journal: "Paul will know how to appreciate your father's treasures."

In Trust 1906

I thought of a student of Kazan whom I had known in the days of the past, of a young fellow from Viatka who, pale-browed, and sententious of diction, might almost have been brother to the ex-soldier himself.

Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902

It was only in Paul that the grandfather's aesthetic faculty revived, and Mrs. Ambrose used often to say to her husband, as they watched the little pale-browed boy poring over an old number of the

The Hermit and the Wild Woman Edith Wharton 1899

He did not perceive me, and even if he had, what should I have been to him -- a pale-browed student, whose thought, large and expansive, was filled with the noble, the philanthropic, and the great.

Autobiography of a female slave, 1857