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EYES AND EYEBROWS

6 entries in PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.

Entries

  • #109

    Hazel eyes betoken a good disposition.

    Boston, Mass.
  • #110

    If your eyebrows meet, you will be rich.

    Somerville and Bedford, Mass.
  • #111

    A well-known children’s rhyme runs:—

    Blue-eye beauty, do your mammy’s duty!
    Black eye, pick a pie,
    Run around and tell a lie!
    Gray-eye greedy gut
    Eat all the world up!

    General in the United States.
  • #112

    If the eyebrows meet, one is ill-tempered.

    General in the United States.
  • #113

    If the eyebrows are far apart, you will live away from home; if near together, you will live near home, or at home.

    Massachusetts.
  • #114

    Heavy eyebrows are a sign of long life.

    Lawrence, Mass.