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Since the spring, I have furrowed my brow through two lunches, three dinners and half a dozen kaffeeklatsches during which my conversation partners made pronouncements about the ever-mystifying Bitcoin.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2018

World number one Novak Djokovic's brow may have furrowed slightly when he heard Andy Murray had teamed up again with former coach Ivan Lendl but he certainly was not surprised.

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2016

Do these things, and you do no more than you do when you force a thinker to follow in the groove that dead men have furrowed.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert

The time prints of sixty summers have furrowed the old hostess' brow, and yet she seems not more than forty—is short of figure, and weighs two hundred.

From An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

The sun-dial was so aged      It had gathered a thoughtful grace; And the round-about of the shadow      Seemed to have furrowed its face.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George