Word: eyebrowed
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...always cared more for the steeplechase than the altar, has always been more willing to risk the royal neck in a race than the royal finger in a ring. He can scarce raise an eyebrow but the whole world notes the new slant, a dozen ladies are waiting for the word;--he smiles with appreciation and goes on with his game. He merely enters another Derby, carries a bobbing crown over hedges and dumps it in a creek...
...asked a chance half-dozen, and only four of them answered, "I don't know," and our pride limped away. Now perhaps this is not a fair question; perhaps, however, Mr. Johnson speaks the truth. Recalling Mr. Stover's psychology on various occasions, we are inclined to lift an eyebrow and doubt if Mr. Johnson sees below the surface, and to chide him for using too broad a brush and too garish colors. His trouble may not be undergraduate ignorance, but ignorance of the undergraduate...
...offers a refuge to those unfortunate Vassar girls who are quizzed in regard to the gum chewing and balustrade stories. That refuge is silence accompanied by a "supercilious elevation of the Vassar eyebrow...
...evident from this article that the question of higher education is still unsettled. We hope the Vassar Miscellany will give a thorough discussion of the question it has opened up and will not treat it with silence accompanied by a "supercilious elevation of the Vassar eyebrow...
Would that we could put in print the peculiar and expressive "Ah," with eyebrow accompaniment, with which the average Harvard man would acknowledge the above compliment. The Student also says: "There are more students in college from Brooklyn, than from any other one place, except Amherst." This is easily explained. Beecher went to Amherst...