The grandmother's brow furrowed, and she seemed stricken by how unfair it all was, but then she and the little girl said good-bye and veered off into the subway crush.

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Moriarity did not fully register what was happening until she saw Bishop her jaw set, her brow furrowed train the gun on a fourth colleague, Maria Ragland Davis, and shoot her.

NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun

He furrowed his brow and chewed at the end of his Biro, then caught my eye and started to giggle.

NEWYORKER: Homework

That moment in the development of a child's mind when the challenge of the task goes head-to-head with the motivation to get it right, where a furrowed brow and shifting eyes mean Be quiet!

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England somehow ran in five tries but they created little of note in attack and although Johnson will be happy to have banked two points, the laboured display will have done nothing to soothe his furrowed brow.

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With his brow furrowed and jaw set, he looked out at the crowd and started his speech.

FORBES: Connect

Wolfowitz, who is sixty-three, has jug ears, hazel eyes, a furrowed brow, and thinning gray hair that he combs to the right.

NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

Its a far cry from the way the medicine game was played just a few years back, when white-coated researchers, furrowed of brow and stooped of shoulder, mixed and matched chemicals in a flask.

FORBES: A hail of silver bullets