Word: furrowings
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...furrow-browed musician snaps impatiently. “I’ll kill myself...
...first reaction to this news was shock. Sometime after I backed into a stump, but definitely before I clipped the neighbor's garage-actually it was around the time the babysitter somehow creased a perfect inch-deep furrow along the entire passenger side, headlight to brake light-I stopped thinking of the van as having any monetary value whatsoever. I resolved to drive it for at least 10 years, or until I developed a capacity for shame, whichever came first. At which point I would pay someone to take it off my hands...
...count on your support for Barack Obama for President?”I’ve spoken those words hundreds of times now, and among the few undecided voters left, the reaction is always the same. First, their eyebrows furrow. Their shoulders shrink imperceptibly. And then a thin-lipped smile settles across their faces like a mask snapping into place. “Still undecided,” they’ll say. Or, “Not sure yet.” Or, when I’m really lucky, they’ll be honest?...
...introduced much of the outside world to a puzzle. In ruins just a few years before, Japan was by then growing its economy at a sustained annual rate of 9%, and doing so, moreover, by cheerfully throwing conventional wisdom out of the window. You could almost see the writer furrow his brow: How do they...
...became unicornos and "unicorn" by the time the English translators of King James got to work. And so, God impresses His power upon Job by saying, "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee...