The apes are adorable, particularly beetle-browed Go-Go. From Wordnik.com. [14 « July « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon] Reference
The next poet was a beetle-browed older man named Aquiles. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
The face that came on the screen was heavy-jowled, beetle-browed and strange. From Wordnik.com. [The Weapon Shops of Isher]
This whole huge empire was run out of some back rooms by a few beetle-browed men. From Wordnik.com. [Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War] Reference
July 16, 2008 at 10:44 am no need to go “beetle-browed” over it. leeza-b says. From Wordnik.com. [no skwish! i be gud! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Isaac, listening, faintly smiled, until he saw Frank glowering at him, beetle-browed. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
The man next the aisle was well past sixty, rotund of abdomen, rubicund of countenance, beetle-browed. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
Tom Tozer was a bull-necked, beetle-browed fellow, the expression of whose face was eloquent with acknowledged roguery. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
The front of it accurately represented the somewhat rugged, long-nosed, and beetle-browed profile of a man, crowned by a huge. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
That short, thick, beetle-browed, bandy-legged, obese man, that so many fresh tourists find so charming, is a Turkish official. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
Ray, beetle-browed and beady-eyed, is terminally bored by the city's slow pace, and unsettled by the close proximity of Culture. From Wordnik.com. ['In Bruges' Gives] Reference
And he locked his beetle-browed gaze upon her so that she could read the force of his and hence the Executive's full displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
And my lady, too, bringing forward her beetle-browed misses to skirl and play upon the virginals, as if she said, ‘Pick and choose.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
Among this congregation, were some evil-looking young women, and beetle-browed young men; but not many — perhaps that kind of characters kept away. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
O happy day! that on which the pug-nosed, bull-necked, brass-knuckled, beetle-browed, ugly New York rough discards whiskey and takes to opium instead. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870] Reference
The other was a little beetle-browed, hook-nosed, high-shouldered gentleman, whom his opposite companion addressed as milor, or my lord, in a very high voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
He nodded across the street to another hostelry, the 'Eichhof,' a small, squat, beetle-browed building with adze-cut corner beams and an air of advanced dilapidation. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
But another hand clutched the hilt of the descending knife and the hand of a short, thickset, beetle-browed desperado, was shouted, as he drew a pistol with his other hand. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Bill's Last Trail] Reference
And it isn't just beetle-browed fundies who see it that way. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
Yes, this squat, beetle-browed, and bow-legged boy had his way. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference
And she points to a beetle-browed citizen with an unshaven face. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
Klickatats of the Columbia, and scowling, beetle-browed Modocs of upper. From Wordnik.com. [Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War] Reference
The house is two stories high, with a sort of beetle-browed roof in front. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
Or why should I look down your boasted Prince's Street, with the beetle-browed. From Wordnik.com. [Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion] Reference
He had always imagined professional pugilists to be bullet-headed and beetle-browed to a man. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather] Reference
Men had climbed as high as to the battlements, and were looking down over the beetle-browed walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
A grisly-bearded, beetle-browed, twinkling-eyed old Cornishman muttered: "A'hm not troublin 'about that.". From Wordnik.com. [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference
"When the chance comes take it," Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Fairy Tales] Reference
And my lady, too, bringing forward her beetle-browed misses to skirl and play upon the virginals, as if she said, 'Pick and choose.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
The latter, boiling over with filial sentiments, climbed up on the running board and encircled the beetle-browed man in a fond embrace. From Wordnik.com. [Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California] Reference
Cherry, and when halfway to the next corner burst into a small saloon, whose proprietor, a large, beetle-browed man, stood behind the bar. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain Ship] Reference
The other halted and drew Goodwin to halt, facing him at the edge of the sidewalk, where a beetle-browed saloon projected its awning above them. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
I cannot say I like the look of the men; they look very ugly customers indeed -- beetle-browed and down-looking, "with foreheads villanous low.". From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
He was a beetle-browed fellow, short, with deep-set furtive eyes, and he struck me as being a thief -- or perhaps a receiver of stolen property. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance] Reference
The creature was like a beetle-browed hair-lipped youth of twenty, and it had a loose bundle of rags on, which it held together with one of its hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
He was the oldest man in the tribe, beetle-browed, prognathous, lank-armed; he had a beard and his cheeks were hairy, and his chest and arms were black with thick hair. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Space and Time] Reference
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