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Example sentences for "father looked"

  • Roy struggled madly in their detaining hands, but Old Faithful and Foster-father looked at each other.

  • But Foster-father looked at Old Faithful and laid his hand kindly on Roy's shoulder.

  • After a few awkward moments my father looked at his watch and said it was about time for us to start if we were to catch the steamer, so I was hurried upstairs to change for our journey.

  • The Bishop looked vexed, my father looked uncomfortable, and my husband, who had been drinking glass after glass of brandy, was muttering something about "a sermon.

  • I only know that my father looked at me for a moment as if perplexed, and then burst into laughter.

  • Father looked at him rather queerly and remarked that he'd find it difficult to get any work in the modern world, where he wouldn't be at the mercy of people with money.

  • My Father looked at her across the top of his glasses.

  • Out in the kitchen my Father looked at my Mother.

  • Father looked thunderstruck, as he answered: "What can you do with it, Clara?

  • The clock had struck eleven, my mother had retired, when my father looked up from his books and returned his spectacles to their case.

  • My father looked at us both, and the tears which had before stood in his eyes forced their way.

  • And by that light the face was changed; young emotions had brought back youth,--my father looked a young man.

  • I know how my father looked, for I have seen him stand like that before moving factors in great events, when he intended, at a certain cue, to enter.

  • My father looked casually at the row of mahogany drawers rising along the end of the bookcase.

  • My father looked steadily at the man, but he did not seem to consider his explanation, nor to go any further on that line.

  • My father looked out on these roads and far back on the one that he had traveled.

  • My father looked at me, as if he would inquire of my very inward soul whether I really did possess human feelings?

  • When I entered the library, my father looked up from his book with a momentary glance of surprise and inquiry; and with a heart beating so loud and so uneasily as mine it was hard to look unembarrassed and natural.

  • When he saw me moving towards the door, my father looked up.

  • My father looked well, pale, and self-possessed, but not so deadly calm, and he called Harry to him with a kind and familiar gesture.

  • You--" My father looked at her sharply, almost suspiciously.

  • My father looked at her, and took a pinch of snuff.

  • My father looked at me almost admiringly, and his hand, that had been fingering the lace, groped toward an empty bottle.

  • Father looked at his watch, and got up with alacrity.

  • Father looked up at Verry, annoyed, but said nothing.

  • Mr Somerville and my father looked at each other, when the former said-- "You seem to be in a great hurry, Frank.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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