From this raised position he was in the habit of contemplating men and circumstances as from a higher point of view, and he found them small; yet not so small that he could not use them for his purposes.
Olle smiled his sunniest smile as if he were contemplating the heavenly hosts; the model was asleep and Sellen found that Ygberg had scored a complete success.
But for the moment I am not yet contemplating a rest.
Often when I have been alone, indulging in dreamy musings, I have looked up and seemed to see him standing contemplating me.
The two speakers who were in such serious conversation stood in a shabby studio in Fitzroy Square gravely contemplating one another.
Sauntering along contemplating the engravings of the illustrated papers displayed in the kiosques, he loitered so naturally that to an ordinary observer he was but an honest citizen of the suburbs.
All right," she replied boldly, removing the cigarette from her lips, and contemplating it.
You were never tired of contemplating me, nor I of contemplating you.
It brought before her eyes the spectre of a worn-out woman knocking at a door which she would not open; and she shrank from contemplating it.
Wherefore the emperor contemplating his sagacity and courage, which promised something great, was inclined to detain him.
To builders, and those contemplating the erection of dwellings or other structures, our paper has proved to be of great value.
Parties contemplating building cheap or expensive residences will find it to their advantage to correspond with us.
The dispirited young woman, on the other hand, delighted in contemplating from the windows of her dressing-room the towers beneath, whose shelter she had abided in such perfect happiness with her doating father and apparently attached sister.
Sir Robert wept like an infant whilst contemplating these two affectionate brothers; in a faltering voice he exclaimed, "How soon may these plighted hands be separated by inexorable law!
Is it not a passion whose sole object is the rapture of contemplating the supreme beauty of this combined character?
Contemplating now the ants as in some respects an excluded race, which with a large share of pugnacity can not find a basis of operations for contending against the bees, we have to turn attention briefly on their modes of life.
He iscontemplating a much more considerable and sustained effort, strategic in character, and identical in aim with his own proposal to De Vins about San Remo.
Then from contemplating his country’s woes his thoughts turned to her—so long numbered in his memory with the dead, so vainly found, only to die within his arms.
Adonijah stood contemplating his work for a moment, then rushed forth in an agony of remorse.
He was like the victim of the lottery mania, whose absorption in contemplating the possibility of drawing the prize renders him quite oblivious of the nine hundred and ninety-nine blank tickets.
Giovanni glanced up and saw that Gouache was slowly descending the road, still absorbed incontemplating the landscape.
She ate little, and then sat thoughtfully contemplating the bare stones, while the men at a little distance hastily disposed of the remains of her meal.
At the edge of the boiling torrent I stood calmly contemplating the advisability of plunging in and allowing myself to be swept out into the air.
In wonderment I was standing, contemplating this vast wealth of a vanished nation, when my fair conductress exclaimed-- "There is still one other marvel about this place.
Although his art was often at fault, it makes us feel, notwithstanding, that in contemplating his works we are in the presence of a colossal mind which, under healthier influences, would have better achieved what he aspired to win.
The great cathedral was crumbling to dust, and saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs were being hurled from their niches of stone, the Virgin alone standing unscathed upon her pedestal contemplating the ruin and tribulation around her.
While engaged in contemplating these stupendous ruins, the rest of the party wandered about, and saw many things which necessarily escaped my observation.
Camilla, who had not even missed her mother and sister from the room, was contemplating the horse of Edgar, and internally arraigning herself for the dangerous pleasure she had felt and manifested at the sight of his master.
He glanced at us rather suspiciously, I thought, but McKelvie was contemplating the ceiling as he puffed his discarded cigar, and I was deep in the pages of a book, what book I have no idea.
When we reached the bottom we looked across into the placid face of the old Chinaman contemplating us fixedly from the doorway!
Jake stood silently contemplating him for a while.
He stood for some minutes contemplating the scene and busy with his thoughts, which at last culminated in a question uttered aloud-- "Where on earth does it lead to?
His garb was all, however, which he possessed of sanctity, and he had passed his time in contemplatingthe weak points in the defences of the city with much more minuteness than those in his own heart.
This was finally accepted by Philip, after he had become convinced that at this moment, when he was contemplating a war with France, it would be extremely impolitic to insist upon the tax.
God preserve to you your peace and innocence," whispered the young mother, after contemplating her children long and tenderly.
Bourrienne was still absorbed in contemplating the friend of his youth, when the latter suddenly stood still before him and looked at him with a pleasant smile.
