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• Beard untrimmed by barber's shears,
• Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,
• As though to give him a warlike note, his clothes were thrown on in a slovenly way, and his moustache frounced out so shock and bristling that it seemed from each hair-end a crackling oath must start with every word he said.
• Under the day-long beating of the sun their brow is frounced out,
• The unruly, shoulder-length hair of the redeemed made a strong contrast to the well-tended coiffures of fashionable men, who "frounced their hair with curling irons" and wore long "love locks" tied with ribbons or silk favors.
• My hairdresser stopped coming. Fortunately, my friend Seton had always enjoyed frouncing my hair, and she readily took up the responsibility, fixing my hair in a different style every day.
• He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye
• Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,
• Mury, however, frounced her brows, and made Sir Tyke Winchap's niece a profound courtesy behind her back.
• "But they know who you are?" I asked, and frounced my brow in skeptical doubt.