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Example sentences for "first glance"

  • As they walked through West Ninth Street she noted that there was more of a physical change in him than she had seen at first glance.

  • As the soup came, in walked Susan--calm and self-possessed, Etta saw at first glance.

  • And already she, who had loved this mighty offspring of the sea and the sky at first glance, saw and felt another magic--the magic of the peopled solitude.

  • At first glance it looked, if such a thing were possible, as if more people had been squeezed into the building than on the previous occasion.

  • At first glance it would appear as if my first impression was a wrong one.

  • On entering the library, he found himself face to face with a middle-aged individual, who at first glance resembled a sporting parson.

  • They were countrified looking and rather awkward, I thought at first glance, which was the only one I took, as I at once left Mr. Trowbridge to talk with the newcomers and went away.

  • They seem a worthless pile of rocks at first glance, but when one recalls that Paris draws its supply of flagstones for its sidewalks from these granite protuberances their mission is seen to be an economic one.

  • As a waterway of the rank of the deep-sea canals of Holland, the Tancarville Canal looks, at first glance, wofully inefficient; but its almost constant use precludes any doubt as to its value.

  • Any unusual attraction detected in a first glance is a sufficient apology for a second,--not a prolonged and impertinent stare, but an appreciating homage of the eyes, such as a stranger may inoffensively yield to a passing image.

  • Of all the new-comers during my whole year he was the only one whom the first glance fixed in my memory, but there he is now, at this moment, just as he caught my eye on the morning of his entrance.

  • At first glance it was nothing but another town, like any one of thousands of English towns.

  • Out of a clear blue sky Freddy Farmer had popped up with something else that didn't make sense at first glance.

  • You tell me something about war that isn't screwy at first glance," Dave grunted as they turned the corner into Cort Street.

  • At first glance it would appear that he is the key to the situation.

  • That he was much agitated could be seen at first glance.

  • Tall, lithe, handsome, and irreproachably turned out, from the curl of his dainty moustache to his superbly shod feet, he appeared at first glance to be a typical boulevardier.

  • The study was furnished throughout in mahogany upholstered in light-green leather, a combination of colors at first glance a trifle disconcerting, but which, when viewed in connection with the walls and draperies, was quite harmonious.

  • When Jack entered, the table at first glance appeared to be filled.

  • VII A first glance, at such close quarters, would have told the least instructed stranger that he was in the presence of two clashing civilizations, both tenacious, one powerful.

  • At first glance and at a little distance, she had thought the young woman perfectly beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful creature she had ever seen--even more glorious than Saidee.

  • This man's high birth and breeding were clear at first glance.

  • II I repeat, at a first glance he was very like the rest of the young fellows of his day; but I admit there was something about him that grew on you.

  • My first glance at him made me wonder whether something even more untoward than that morning's sudden drama had happened.

  • The ancients had painted landscape as it appeared broadly at a first glance.

  • Tragedy Pacuvius Let us first glance at the Roman dramatic literature and the stage itself.

  • Carthage and Numidia Let us first glance at Africa.

  • Let us first glance at the region between the western Alps and the Pyrenees.

  • A name-label in which the name is printed within a border made up of ornamental type, although it does not look so at first glance.

  • At first glance, one thought him very old, for his hair was white as snow, his body shrivelled and bent, his face lined and sallow.

  • There remains America, and at first glance it might seem that here is the nation to be entrusted with the great work.

  • I knew, in my first glance at you, that you were to be counted on.

  • They must be thus, viewed from the front, and therefore, at first glance, they had not been really unfamiliar to him.

  • He recognized her at first glance; the stone model of her was splendidly striking in every detail, even to her gait; involuntarily he designated this as "lente festinans.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first appeared; first attack; first began; first company; first editions; first found; first given; first hearing; first lecture; first made; first meridian; first part; first performance; first principles; first publication; first section; first story; first the; first visit; first volume; first went; first white; first wife; first work; said slowly; seven dollars