| 单词 | beetle-browed |
| 例句 | Neither my new long reach nor Chapter Eleven’s beetle-browed concentration was sufficient to counter Milton’s wicked spin or his “killer shot” which left red marks on our chests, through our clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z One was the conviction of the stocky, beetle-browed Hungarian physicist that the lethargic pace of thermonuclear research had placed the United States at the mercy of the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A close-up of this beetle-browed artist, then in her 70s, imitating with uncanny verisimilitude a crying, chuckling and gurgling infant, it’s hilarious. ‘Unorthodox’ Faces Paradox at the Jewish Museum 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He has, Mr. Gardiner writes, “the look of a man etched with life’s travails — beetle-browed, with shallow eye sockets, asymmetrical eyes and slightly droopy eyelids.” A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z But many of them were amusing, in a beetle-browed grandpa sort of way. In defense of Andy Rooney 2011-09-28T13:29:00Z She was pondering the ways in which she might officially open the new Fifth Avenue Topshop store the next day, several of whose walls are covered in larger-than-life-size photographs of her beetle-browed visage. Topshop’s Next Stop Is Fifth Avenue 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Carter, who seemed less imposing and beetle-browed than on screen, was sitting on a dainty chair in a small room filled with chunky film equipment and props. ‘Downton Abbey’: Saying Farewell to All That 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z A beetle-browed veteran of stage and screen, Mr. Constantine appeared in a half-dozen Broadway plays and more than 180 movies and television shows. Michael Constantine, Windex-loving dad in ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ dies at 94 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z These are some of the latest findings on our beetle-browed relatives—the studies seem to be arriving every few weeks now—and they’ve had the unsettling effect of making them seem ever more like us. Our Neanderthals, Ourselves 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Refracted through Spall’s beetle-browed, tightly coiled characterization, most of the formative events in Turner’s life are revisited by way of fleeting memories or gruff, dismissive asides. ‘Mr. Turner’ movie review: Timothy Spall paints a masterpiece as J.M.W. Turner 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The very last remark on my own school report came from a sardonic, beetle-browed master who had despaired of ever getting me to take anything seriously. Should charm be taught in schools? 2014-03-13T01:19:47Z It was a low stone doorway, beetle-browed, with a coat of arms carved over it. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Here and there a beetle-browed passage led beneath them to the river; and one out of every two was a tavern, or worse. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Hobson, the second mate, came aft a few minutes later, a beetle-browed, foxy-looking fellow, with a furtive smile of encouragement for his accomplices. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z A sudden silence followed and a dozen faces turned my way; so that the room, which was low in the roof with wide beetle-browed windows, seemed to lighten. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z And another"--again he singled out a man, a beetle-browed dwarf, hideous of aspect, survivor of some ancient race--"who promises victory if you will sacrifice your captives on yonder stone! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The window was one of a kind common in Warwickshire houses; long and low and beetle-browed, the story above projecting over it. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z The beetle-browed person placed himself in unpleasant proximity to Mrs. Lamb; his manner was, if possible, even more eloquent than his words. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z "What dost wish, honest youth?" said a tall, heavy-eyed, beetle-browed, swarthy personage, who poked his face round from behind, close to that of the unfortunate artist, with great freedom and familiarity. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z I found it without difficulty—a long, low-fronted, beetle-browed farmhouse, lying back a meadow's length from the road. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z She was somewhat beetle-browed, her nose was flattish, her mouth wide, but her lips red; her teeth, which she sometimes discovered, seemed to be thin, but as white as blanched almonds. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z We have often wondered how one university could possibly corner the entire supply of treacherous and beetle-browed humanity. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z "Is this 'er?" inquired one of the friends, a beetle-browed person, with an open gash running right down his filthy cheek. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z He was a beetle-browed, scowling, ill-conditioned-looking gent of about fifty, who had a trick of coughing a hard dry cough between every word he uttered. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The other was a much bigger and more powerful man; a heavy, beetle-browed, high-cheeked ruffian, with a flat nose, and thick, coarse lips. A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel 2011-02-15T03:00:18.213Z In her experience, wrestlers were brave, taciturn, geeky, beetle-browed, polite, and not afraid of female jocks. Jonathan Franzen: “Agreeable.” 2010-05-24T04:00:00Z Traces of the ancient DNA from the much-caricatured, beetle-browed caveman live on in most human beings today, the researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Scientists find Neanderthal DNA in modern humans 2010-05-07T05:04:00Z The sound of feet on the cobbled pavement of the mill-yard brought a squat, beetle-browed old man to the threshold. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 On his right, a quite old man, bald and beetle-browed. Cue for Quiet And, at the word, a short, beetle-browed, ill-favored young fellow appeared at the door, pen in hand. That Boy Of Norcott's 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. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time He was the most saturnine person my eye ever beheld, either before I practised or since; of a middle stature, broad forehead, beetle-browed, thick shoulders, flat-nosed, full lips, down-looked, black, curling, stiff hair, splay-footed. Old and New London Volume I It was a signal, though, for a thick-set beetle-browed young fellow to bounce in from the next room and curtly demand my business. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself Opposite to him sat Tonson the gamekeeper—a thin, wiry, beetle-browed fellow, with eyes like a ferret; and there were also, one or two farmers, who lived in the village. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. But the hand paused before it reached its desire; for there upon the side of a low cot sat a beetle-browed fellow, shabby and down at the heel. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist “What do you mean?” demanded Wunpost drawing himself up arrogantly while his beetle-browed eyes flashed fire; but the challenge in his voice did not ring absolutely true and Dusty Rhodes grinned at him wickedly. Wunpost His beetle-browed face was truculent, and his hand rested on the hilt of his neuro-pistol. The Martian Cabal And so this was his brigand—the brutal, the beetle-browed, the cruel, the bloody-minded, the inexorable, the demoniac, and all the rest of it! Among the Brigands They were a beetle-browed, dark race, with gnarled muscles and huge, knotted joints, speaking a guttural language all their own. Priestess of the Flame 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. Tales of Space and Time He raced down Catharine Street into Cherry, and when halfway to the next corner burst into a small saloon, whose proprietor, a large, beetle-browed man, stood behind the bar. The Grain Ship That short, thick, beetle-browed, bandy-legged, obese man, that so many fresh tourists find so charming, is a Turkish official. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Men had climbed as high as to the battlements, and were looking down over the beetle-browed walls. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Lord Thurlow, once Lord High Chancellor of England, Keeper of the Conscience of George the Third, &c., was a tall, dark, harsh-featured, deep-voiced, beetle-browed man, of strong natural abilities, little conscience, and no delicacy. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 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." A Boy's Voyage Round the World The latter, boiling over with filial sentiments, climbed up on the running board and encircled the beetle-browed man in a fond embrace. Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California 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. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories He was short, broad, beetle-browed, and gray-eyed, of undoubted courage, but with the quality of sympathy left out of his nature. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Henry shot him a beetle-browed look as he sat down between Auerbach and me, but at least he was coöperative to the extent that he placed both his hands on top of the table. Sense from Thought Divide A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn In course of time, he reached the automobile, landed in a heap on the bosom of the beetle-browed, Roman-nosed passenger in the tonneau, and encircling him with his hairy arms. Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California Half a dozen of these furtive, beetle-browed, swarthy sons of the prairie lounged there now, as the elder officers and the trader returned, while Blake went on his way, exploring. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Since then the girl's lively imagination had created a most unseemly brute out of the enemy of her house, a beetle-browed, ugly-mouthed, facially-hideous being little short of a monstrosity. Man to Man Directly the door of his private room was discreetly opened, admitting a square-jawed, beetle-browed man, heavy and ugly—a coarse type, yet not without distinction. The Title Market "This, apparently, was the way by which the prisoner used to arrive and quit the island secretly," he finished his evidence in chief, and the beetle-browed, portly barrister sat down. Romance Shaggy, beetle-browed and unshaven, his looks were anything but pleasing to those who did not fully know him. The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring "You are to take the car over the mountain, Hector," he said briefly, to the beetle-browed giant in blue denim, when he had climbed to the foot-plate. Empire Builders "Or all three," put in the beetle-browed man who was working next to Zorzi. Marietta A Maid of Venice The rumbustious ogre has a hitherto undescribed, but quite imaginable, gap-toothed, beetle-browed ogress of a wife. Jaffery A knock brought a black-haired, beetle-browed person to the window. The Story of Patsy Broad-shouldered, beetle-browed, brutal and lazy was Bill Hennard, son of a prosperous settler. Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned "Ha, Mrs. MACSTOGGINS, and are we in your debt again?" asked the Agent of a beetle-browed woman of a sinister and forbidding expression, who was thrusting a paper across the counter to the cashier. Punch Among the Planets Madame Ossoli reached the apartment of the Jewess, just in time to interpose between that beetle-browed lady and her infuriated assailant. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II They did not fit the picture any more than her beetle-browed, red-lipped Serbian who.... The Blood Red Dawn Ugly Greg was the prisoner's name, Ugly in face, and in nature the same; Stubborn, sullen, and beetle-browed, The hardest case in a hardened crowd. The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young The man next the aisle was well past sixty, rotund of abdomen, rubicund of countenance, beetle-browed. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth "And pray, Madam," he continued, addressing the beetle-browed woman, "tell me the truth." Punch Among the Planets Never believe a great, broad-faced, beetle-browed Spoon, when he tells you, with a sigh that would upset a schooner, that the happiest days of a man's life are those he spends at school. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829 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. The Uncommercial Traveller Among this congregation, were some evil-looking young women, and beetle-browed young men; but not many - perhaps that kind of characters kept away. Reprinted Pieces It was to Mrs. Brent, the beetle-browed wife of Mr. Commissary Brent, to whom the general transferred his attentions now—his bouquets, his dinners at the restaurateurs', his opera-boxes, and his knick-knacks. Vanity Fair And my lady, too, bringing forward her beetle-browed misses to skirl and play upon the virginals, as if she said, 'Pick and choose.' The Bride of Lammermoor 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. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870 "You see when you can tell me so little about it—" Mr. Haight was tall and bent and beetle-browed. The Beautiful and Damned They were followed by about ten dark, beetle-browed males, who carried guitars. His Hour 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. The Virginians And she points to a beetle-browed citizen with an unshaven face. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago He was an iron-faced, beetle-browed, stern man, and this morning he did not seem to be in the best of tempers. A Christmas Mystery The Story of Three Wise Men He had always imagined professional pugilists to be bullet-headed and beetle-browed to a man. The White Feather "See here, Grace Harlowe, you are not going to give up your room to that beetle-browed anarchist, are you?" demanded Elfreda wrathfully. Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College Thomas Bull, a large, beetle-browed youth, rose at once and inquired of their titled and aged visitor, a man of world-wide reputation, why he thought it funny to tell them fairy tales. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales The colloquy there was long and for the most part carried on through the keyhole, but in the end their visitor was admitted, a beetle-browed brute of much the same stamp as his host. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch The man who had just entered the shop was a short, slight, hunched, beetle-browed man, with long arms and very short bandy legs. The Invisible Man Truly the little maid hath a bearing that might serve a queen, though she be all too black and beetle-browed for Queen Elizabeth. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland He has become a beetle-browed, sullen, slouching ruffian. For the Term of His Natural Life Below the pool two beetle-browed rocks nearly overarched the chasm, leaving just such a space at the summit as was within the possibility of a leap; the torrent roared below in a fearful gulf. Crotchet Castle This heavy, beetle-browed ruffian, who has grown old in sin, and whose appetite increases with his years, is Polichinelle. Scaramouche From first to last he was the stern and beetle-browed marauder, who would have despised the frippery of Sixteen-String Jack as vehemently as his sudden appearance would have frightened the foppish lover of Ellen Roach. A Book of Scoundrels And then M. Binet fetched a sigh, and addressed himself to the elderly, swarthy, beetle-browed Polichinelle, who sat on his left. Scaramouche |
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