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  • The songs are irritatingly infectious with enough angst to keep the moodiest teenagers frowning.
  • Seconds later a man with a thin, frowning face said, 'Let's roll.'
  • Smiling, frowning, squinting and other habitual facial expressions cause these wrinkles to become more prominent.
  • And then there was that tiny form in her arms, its face wizened, troubled, frowning. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview.
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  • The eyebrow frowning, the inner ends drawn down, the outer very raised. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • There were several colors of pencils, even a slide rule, at which she was frowning.
  • I remembered my imprudent sister and sighed, frowning.
  • I was surprised to observe his frowning aspect on landing, and ascribed it to the circumstance of his being the "harse," or harrow, a term of derision applied to the slowest canoe. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.
  • Cameron gulped the much-needed air as he turned to see Damian frowning.
  • Deep, vertical creases run from nose to forehead and press outward from her frowning mouth.
  • Frowning, the hacker lilted the receiver to his ear. Forgetfulness
  • You wear it on your forehead and it releases via an adhesive patch electronic impulses that relax your muscles and stop you frowning. Times, Sunday Times
  • What's wrong? Why are you frowning?
  • Rocky smiled with a mouthful of food and gave a thumbs up, oblivious to his mother, who was frowning across the table.
  • Basutoland, which is situated just behind the frowning wall of the Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
  • He was greeted by the sight of three men frowning in concentration over a card game.
  • Colin turned his head, frowning. The Secret Garden
  • The Criten twiddled the engomater control, frowning. Episode 9:1 Thoughts, Speculations, Alternatives « Unknowing
  • We passed through the blue-caverned space, crossed the narrow arch that spanned the rushing sea stream, and, ascending, stood again upon the ivoried pave at the foot of the frowning, towering amphitheatre of jet. The Moon Pool
  • If it looks at you it seems to be frowning or scowling. Times, Sunday Times
  • Zack was reluctant and frowning, but I exercised fatherly priviledge and basically railroaded him into the trip.
  • What's wrong? Why are you frowning?
  • He sat frowning over a crossword puzzle.
  • Charles looked bemused but gave an encouraging smile while Emilia urged her on; Faith and Hope were smiling but Charity, Rebecca and Louisa were frowning.
  • Then it seemed as if Florence were looking at me, frowning, slightly reproving. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • The main software program being offered free to doctors, by Allscripts Inc. and a coalition of technology companies and health plans, displays a green smiley face next to generic and on-formulary drugs, and a red frowning face next to more expensive nonformulary drugs. Incentives Push More Doctors to E-Prescribe
  • Nick looked back over his shoulder and then stopped, frowning.
  • When frenzy and hysterics threaten, just keep telling yourself that smiling's a better facial aerobic than frowning.
  • Hooch chewed on the end of his finger for a moment, frowning, then suddenly his monolithic mien brightened. BEHINDLINGS
  • He and Violet sing duets as the purple film displaces the glories of azure and gold, and the twilight shadows the dusky bits of wood, the frowning rocks, and the indentations of shore that might be nereid haunts. Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • Frowning, the teacher slowly picked up the writing utensil, rewriting the equation for me and showing me the step I'd managed to forget to do.
  • Frowning intently, he unwinds his orange turban, knots it in a ligature around his right biceps, and starts pumping his arm.
  • If you see a person who has spent much of the last 30 years frowning, that is reflected in their face. News from www.pantagraph.com
  • She was frowning, her brow furrowed, her expression troubled. Etched in Bone
  • He was frowning and looking at the floor. The Sun
  • He gestured at the map-hung walls, the blotched charts like half-finished tapestries, the frowning impassivity of metal filing cabinets. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • The other six stared at him, looked at each other with questioning, frowning glances, then returned their exclusive attention to McKinnon. SAN ANDREAS
  • A grimace was the closest he could come to changing his facial expression, since his species wasn't exactly geared for smiling, frowning, and other human-like actions. Fire on High
  • he looked at her frowningly
  • The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview.
  • Frowning, he leaned forward for a closer look at the bizarre sight.
  • The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview.
  • Sibling rivalry?" she asked, frowning at his use of psychological terms.
  • The frowning barrel of his gun overshadowing. Times, Sunday Times
  • We all turned to look at Lynn, who was still frowning in thought.
  • There Leo was still frowning at the computer, twitching the mouse around, grumbling. BEHINDLINGS
  • Grace is still sitting on the floor of the balloon, frowning in puzzlement.
  • Frowning direfully, she viciously decapitated another shriveled set of blooms. The Ideal Bride
  • Frowning, I glanced around the room trying to find the culprit responsible for interrupting my reading.
  • It is my experience that those in authority are wisely frowning on the rather wild statements which from time to time are made with regard to 'potentialities' of the north. Canada's Century If …
  • With the latter a frown is the sign of negation, and with us frowning often accompanies a lateral shake of the head. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
  • She stood up, frowning at the creases in her silk dress.
  • By the time we were at the classroom door, I had finished my recount of events and Melany was frowning in thought.
  • A poke in his side however caught his attention and he looked down to a frowning Shi who had a scolding look on her face.
  • The innkeeper raised his brow in question, and he was frowning as he shook his head.
  • He sat frowning over a pile of reports, his curly brown hair already rumpled from his constant fiddling with it. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • Colin turned his head, frowning. The Secret Garden
  • Adrianna watched, frowning again at the thought of her missing sword.
  • Arthur stood silently, his eyes unfocussed, massaging his bony shoulder with a still-bonier hand, frowning. BEHINDLINGS
  • This is a computer-intensive show - plenty of typing and frowning.
  • Later, although savouring the warmth of the electric blanket, she lay frowning in the darkness.
  • She looked up frowning into his delighted face. Times, Sunday Times
  • Later, although savouring the warmth of the electric blanket, she lay frowning in the darkness.
  • Frowning in irritation, she picked up the lost stitch and started over, muttering darkly under her breath as she did so. ‘Purl one, knit one, purl one.’
  • Frowning, Jackson turned and walked into the kitchen, toasting some bread, and brewing some coffee.
  • As he passed along the coast he turned to examine the opening which Captain Cook had called Port Jackson, and soon found himself in a winding channel of water, with great cliffs frowning overhead. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890
  • He looked at the coded message, frowning in concentration.
  • And it all seems pretty much... pretty much... uh...' He was frowning at the screen. BEHINDLINGS
  • Andy was back real skorry, waving the great shiny white sleeve of the Ninth, which had on it, brothers, the frowning beetled like thunderbolted litso of Ludwig van him - self. Where's the show?
  • Those forced to smile found the cartoons funnier than those frowning. The Sun
  • His brother shifted, looking at him finally and William realized he was still frowning angrily.
  • These people, with their quiet-smiling, quiet-frowning faces, connect one instantly with the stories out of the past that may be deciphered from the stained glass windows on the stair-landings which deal with various aspects of early days. Canadian Cities of Romance
  • For five have the sesquialter proportion, three cups of water being mixed in two of wine; three, the double proportion, two being mixed with one; four, the sesquiterce, three cups of water to one of wine, which is the epitrite proportion for those exercising their minds in the council-chamber or frowning over dialectics, when changes of speeches are expected, — a sober and mild mixture. Symposiacs
  • You wear it on your forehead and it releases via an adhesive patch electronic impulses that relax your muscles and stop you frowning. Times, Sunday Times
  • Frowning, the wordsmith jerks the paper from the machine, its platen and feed roller clacking angrily in protest. The Torture Never Stops
  • Bri put the plates in the sink, locked the door and followed Shane up to the silver-blue four-by-four, frowning.
  • Frowning, with a skeptic 's habitual narrowing of his eyes, Vernor Matheius uttered this name as if doubting it. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
  • She lifted her helmet from over her eyes and saw him kneeling down by the door, frowning as he prodded at the remains of his coat.
  • "Take it; oh, you must!" he stammered, and thrust the envelope into the bib of her apron and ran back to his room, groaning and frowning as if he had hurt himself.
  • Frowning detracts from her beauty.
  • Later, although savouring the warmth of the electric blanket, she lay frowning in the darkness.
  • And the lead singer-me - is frowning in concentration, trying to remember the right place to scream 'woohoo'. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the vid, it looks like he is reacting like a schoolteacher, kind of lamely frowning at the remark. McCain: "Who Is The Real Barack Obama?" McCain Supporter: "Terrorist!"
  • For instance, M. Moreau, in speaking of the act of frowning, that is, of the contraction of the muscle called by French writers the soucilier (corrigator supercilii), remarks with truth: -- "Cette action des sourciliers est un des symptômes tômes les plus tranchés de l'expression des affections pénibles ou concentrées. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
  • At the CTU office, an open-plan area with the doomy, metallic vibe of the Battlestar Galactica, operatives march frowningly about or sit at their stations, all jowly with blue computer glare. The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer
  • For five have the sesquialter proportion, three cups of water being mixed in two of wine; three, the double proportion, two being mixed with one; four, the sesquiterce, three cups of water to one of wine, which is the epitrite proportion for those exercising their minds in the council-chamber or frowning over dialectics, when changes of speeches are expected, — a sober and mild mixture. Essays and Miscellanies
  • The domes began to sweat under the frowning sun.
  • The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview.
  • If it looks at you it seems to be frowning or scowling. Times, Sunday Times
  • He placed them in a neat pile, patting them into position with his large hands, frowning slightly.
  • Metempsychosis, he said , frowning. It's Greek: from the Greek. hat means the transmigration of souls.
  • He did not have good fine motor control, holding the pencil awkwardly and frowning slightly as he drew.
  • Frowning, she tried to think of why he was in her thoughts so much lately.
  • Presently the west wind begins to blow with greater strength, and they note the mass of clouds, gray and frowning, that is banked against the sky. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
  • When she entered he looked up, frowning direfully. Antony and Cleopatra
  • Working with UEA colleagues, he recorded video of volunteers performing 30 different facial expressions such as frowning, smiling and looking surprised. Software That Instantly Alters A Person’s Sex Or Race | Impact Lab
  • Taking slow, deep breaths, Roy recovered from the fit of coughing, and looked down at the handkerchief, frowning at the specks of blood that were on it.
  • The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face.
  • She yanked them back, frowning at his calloused skin and cracked nails.
  • Those forced to smile found the cartoons funnier than those frowning. The Sun
  • Some passages they would play over and over again, frowning with concentration and tut-tutting with annoyance. STAGE FRIGHT
  • Collaged in the middle sits a heart-shaped potted plant with a frowning face.
  • Frowning, she let her mind drift back to the events of two years ago.
  • Those forced to smile found the cartoons funnier than those frowning. The Sun
  • She stood up, frowning at the creases in her silk dress.
  • A slight young woman stood there, frowning, eyes tightly shut. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • Katherine asked, frowning doubtfully, turning back around, still not focussing properly. BEHINDLINGS
  • The eye might be delayed by a desire to rest on the rocks, which here and there rose from the dell with massive or spiry fronts, or it might dwell on the noble, though ruined tower, which was here beheld in all its dignity, frowning from a promontory over the river. Waverley
  • He smiled and leaned down to kiss her, frowning as a sudden knock sounded on the door.
  • She yanked them back, frowning at his calloused skin and cracked nails.
  • Most people probably regard smiling, frowning and other such external signals of emotion as gestures that give expression to internal feelings, which come first.
  • Why are you frowning at me? I've done nothing.
  • The frowning barrel of his gun overshadowing. Times, Sunday Times
  • She stood over him, frowning, as Joe spooned soup into his mouth.
  • Martin could not help frowning for a moment, as if he were disposed to insinuate that the gentleman had unconsciously 'darned' himself. Martin Chuzzlewit
  • The door opened sharply, and she looked up into her mother's frowning face. COMPULSION
  • For from the day that they did land upon Scamander's strand, their doom began, not for loss of stolen frontier nor yet for fatherland with frowning towers; whomso Ares slew, those never saw their babes again, nor were they shrouded for the tomb by hand of wife, but in a foreign land they lie. The Trojan Women
  • Understand then Noble Chynon, that Pasimondo, the onely glad man of thy misfortune, and diligent sutor after thy death, maketh all hast hee can possibly devise to do, to celebrate his marriage with thy faire Mistresse: because he would plead possession of the prey, which Fortune (when she smiled) did first bestow, and (afterward frowning) tooke from thee againe. The Decameron
  • The massive red towers and domes of the Kremlin palaces were acceptably severe and frowning. THE LAST RAVEN
  • I can feel Darwin frowning over me like a thunderhead. A Mile Down the Road From Home
  • He was frowning and looking at the floor. The Sun
  • This is the static prodigy phenomenon, where early gains ossify into a state of frowning and manfully borne stasis, a condition known in sports science as Huddlestone's Mooch. Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay
  • East, but that he had for some time past been living in Basutoland, which is situated just behind the frowning wall of the Drakensberg, to the southwest of where they were speaking, and not twenty miles distant. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
  • She looked up frowning into his delighted face. Times, Sunday Times
  • He smells like a leader of men, but all kind of... kind of stunted... misdirected...' Ted was frowning --- Resin? BEHINDLINGS
  • Akushu looked at a fresh rip in her skirt, frowning.
  • The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face.
  • Ellis Peters THE RAVEN IN THE FOREGATE A Brother Cadfael Mystery Chapter One Abbot Radulfus came to chapter, on this first day of December, with a preoccupied and frowning face, and made short work of the various trivialities brought up by his obedientiaries. The Raven In The Foregate
  • I spoke up, frowning and furrowing my brow in confusion.
  • What do I do? she scoffed in French, frowning and rearing back her head at the idea. Day of Honey
  • She stood on the sidewalk and looked at him through the window, not smiling, not frowning, more like _studying _him, for what seemed like the longest moment of his life. The Body Ricardo
  • St. Cyprian tells of a good man who in his agony of death saw a fantasm of a noble and angelical shape, who, frowning and angry, said to him: "Ye can not endure sickness, ye are troubled at the evils of the world, and yet you are loath to die and to be quit of them; what shall I do to you? The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South
  • She clucked her tongue a couple of times, frowning slightly.
  • She'd sit at the terminal, frowning, cigarette burning in the tray, tapping a rapid staccato.
  • The massive red towers and domes of the Kremlin palaces were acceptably severe and frowning. THE LAST RAVEN
  • You might program it to have a distinct state called "sadness," where it would display symptoms such as frowning, downcast eyes, and broken concentration. From amoebas to elephants
  • He peered through the lens, frowning slightly.
  • At the CTU office, an open-plan area with the doomy, metallic vibe of the Battlestar Galactica, operatives march frowningly about or sit at their stations, all jowly with blue computer glare. The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer
  • The massive red towers and domes of the Kremlin palaces were acceptably severe and frowning. THE LAST RAVEN
  • The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview.
  • He had a very heavy brow that always made him appear as though he were frowning.
  • The massive red towers and domes of the Kremlin palaces were acceptably severe and frowning. THE LAST RAVEN
  • Handy is a blank slate which fanon has run with and scribbled all over ... but if we pick him up right there on the beach where we left him ... he's one frowning and discontented fella. What I love about Russell T. Davies
  • “Intended to be kept secret,” I say, rattling off the definition and frowning. HOUSE RULES
  • She looked up at Nell, frowning so that her forehead concertinaed. The Forgotten Garden
  • She glanced round for a way out, frowning as she realised there wasn't one.
  • A dazed Helen looks from the elderly woman at the bottom of the stairs to the top, where her sister Delia stands in her bubblegum pink maid of honor dress with a frowning face of disapproval.

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