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Definition of Frowners
1. frowner [n] - See also: frowner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowners
Literary usage of Frowners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"A handful of frowners against thirty million laughers in a state of erruption:
Why, it's Herculaneum against Vesuvius; it would take another eighteen ..."
2. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"Some persons are such habitual frowners, that the mere effort of speaking almost
always causes their brows to contract. Men of all races frown when they are ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"OC I • or frowners smooth out the wrinkles and crow's feet that mar your beauty.
They are absolutely harmless—simple and easy to us«—a toil« necessity. ..."
4. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1921)
"Conversely, the frowners were likely to prove hypocrites. Thus Joseph Andrews is
refused aid, when naked and bleeding, by passengers whose delicacy is ..."
5. A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches by William Francis Collier (1900)
"The silly trick having led to a coolness between the families, Pope set to work,
inspired by the wish to reconcile the estranged frowners by a good hearty ..."
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