Word: brows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While anxious fear has now come o'er the brow...
This frost-work o'er your brow has flung...
...Clang! whirr! sphiz! The thing was getting serious. If the diabolical machine kept on, Boxer might wake, and then - but I wasn't going to be balked by a mere piece of mechanism. I threw it into the bed, between the blankets. Clang! swurr! The perspiration stood on my brow; a reckless desperation seized upon me. I hurled it into the closet, and tumbled all my clothes - dress suit and all - down upon it. Spiz! wrurr! like ten thousand furies. Was there no way to stop the cursed thing? I could hear Boxer stirring. There was a movement downstairs. Clang...
...conceived exactly the same idea. Another carom without taking the cushion. This was getting embarrassing. Two or three Freshmen smiled softly, while the Echo man in the corner was seen rapidly taking notes. One more move, and yet another collision. Ted was desperate. The cold perspiration stood on his brow, and rising with dignity, he said: "Madam, permit me" .... but, alas! losing his balance he clutched wildly at the air, and seized her waist...
...between these two organizations. This fact affords the clew to the whole mystery. We can picture to ourselves the meeting in the lonely cellar (far from mortal care retreating); the first words of greeting; the conversation on various subjects; the first mention of either society; the lowering of the brow and darkening of the eye when at last they saw each other in their true light; the ill-suppressed wrath; the last fearful outburst of ungovernable anger; and the final death-struggle when - But let us draw the veil...