There were the little faces of the children, peeping from their bed apart and here the father's frame of strength, the mother's subdued and careful mien, the
high-browed youth, the budding girl, and the good old grandam, still knitting in the warmest place.
Just one of many examples in brief from my coffee shop friends is: Within an hour of a very minor cut on my friend's finger he visited the first aid at his local hospital and was attended to by a
high-browed orthopaedic doctor who asked him to clean his wounded finger.
Miz Sherrill is an epic figure at the highest of the
high-browed end of the decorative arts in New York.
Remember when cell phones had hit the market, many
high-browed had sounded sceptic about its use by the illiterate people in the villages.
People may dismiss the Earl as a "snob" who longs for the days when gals had the
high-browed, glaucous-eyed beauty of the Mitford sisters but it is likely that he simply recognises the publicity value of a downright rude soundbite.
And the Daily Post was there with its expert writers to tell you all about it - whether it was ballet to make the eyes leap in their
high-browed sockets, opera to be heard by men and women in dickie-bows and furs; or football at Anfield and Goodison, boxing at the old Stadium, dancing at the Rotunda.
Later we went to a
high-browed gambling resort, where we remained until morning at the roulette table," he reported.
All of his titles clearly state the obvious, not lending themselves to any
high-browed philosophizing: "Head of a woman with braids" "Woman with two children," "The drunks.
Such is the level of his
high-browed gibberish, he has now been dubbed the new David Brent from The Office.
So much so that, in the
high-browed backlash that has followed, he claims to have quit the game.
They sat side by side in the front row of the shallow bleachers behind the scorer's table at the Northridge gym, he tall,
high-browed and reserved, she tall, blond and bubbly.
Such a misguided methodology leads only to the
high-browed gossip of Rupert Croft-Cooke's Feasting With Panthers.
