"Furrowed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cane-hedges into a regular checker-work of cultivation, prolonged the mystery; and the glimpses of white villages scarcely seemed to break the spell. Point after point we passed,—great shoulders of volcanic mountain thrust out to meet the sea, with steep green ravines furrowed in between them; and when at last we rounded the Espalamarca, and the white walls and the Moorish towers of Horta stood revealed before us, and a stray sunbeam pierced the clouds on the great mountain Pico across the bay, and the Spanish steamship ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
... hand, and pressed it; and two heavy tears ran down his furrowed cheeks. "Alas," murmured he, "my son, that ...
— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... repeated, and it seemed to me her voice was toneless. Then she turned to me in a sudden spate of passion, her face pleading, furrowed, wretchedly sad. ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... of the iron wheels as they furrowed the planking was heard by the pirates. They turned from their game of butchery and stood frozen in their tracks for a frightened instant. Then they tried to flee in all directions. Their tarry pigtails fairly stood on end. Well they knew what it ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine
... flattering,—oh! what an object he was! The rings round his eyes were of the colour of bistre; those orbs themselves were like the plovers' eggs whereof Lady Clavering and Blanche had each tasted; the wrinkles in his old face were furrowed in deep gashes; and a silver stubble, like an elderly morning dew was glittering on his chin, and alongside the dyed whiskers now ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
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