knit brows

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Governor Wallace’s hard face and tightly knit brows, plastered on the front of Time magazine some twelve days later, covered the nation’s coffee tables and city newsstands.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

With knit brows, and chin dropped upon his breast, he took his way steadily through the throng.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

"It shows them to be on very peculiar terms," he admitted, with knit brows.

From The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie

There were the scarred forehead and the stern face of Mr. Marston with knit brows, and his hand shading his eyes, as he stared close to the glass into the room.

From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

He flushed with knit brows, but laughed and jested: 'I guess because she does not like the colour of my hair.'

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence