If the eggs can be obtained from the pond so much the better; they are in little black masses floating on the surface of the water, and resemble at first glance nothing so much as a floating bit of soot.
The leeches, some of which are familiar animals, are closely related to the earthworms, although at first glance the similarity in structure is not very noticeable.
Crustaceans which at first glance are hardly recognizable as such are the stalked or sessile barnacles (fig.
While at first glance there is apparent little similarity between the starfish and sea-urchin, nevertheless careful examination shows that the two animals are alike in their fundamental structure.
A sophisticated woman in Simla, for example, had once told Mrs. Cartwright that she found no variation of the Glad Eye more successful with some men than the glance withheld.
As if he felt that glance upon him, Jack Awdas looked up and put a hand to his cap; a smile rippling all over his face.
He paused to glance across the table at Olwen, gaily chattering with Mr. Ellerton.
Olwen's glance flew back to the platform as her friend stepped forward up to it.
Yes, indeed," agreed the demure Olwen, feeling as if she exchanged a mental glance with the unknown Inventor of that Charm.
Mrs. Cartwright, with a passing glance down her own long outlines from the shoulder to the narrow Turkish-slippered foot on the mat.
Thank goodness that there is at least enough to drink," she reflected with a quick whimsical glance about the well-cleared dishes on her supper-table that had held: 1.
Mrs. Todd could not resist a significant glance at me, but, with charming sympathy, she forbore to point the lesson or to connect this illness with its apparent cause.
Bob cast an occasional glance full of apprehension down at the water that was coming into the canoe.
Bob suddenly, as his glance caught a dark opening in a half-dead tree trunk.
They must judge at a glance just how a deer would proceed while pushing through the forest, avoiding such dense thickets as promised to entangle his antlers, and at the same time seeking shelter from possible enemies.
Something in his brother's words caused Sandy to glance back just then.
Never once did Sandy glance back toward the home he was leaving; he seemed given up entirely to the witchery of the adventure.
But, look as he would, he could find no trace of either, and an inadvertent glance in the mirror betrayed the further fact that his linen was long since past a presentable stage.
Chancing to glance up at the moment, he found Mr. Cortlandt's eyes fixed upon him with a peculiarly amused look, and a few minutes later he followed Mr. Stein to the deck above.
He ran a hostile glance up and down Anthony's burly frame.
The intensity of her look caused him to rise hurriedly and cast a quick glance from one to the other.
As they emerged upon the sidewalk the younger one flashed a glance at the men opposite, and Kirk saw that she was a mulatto--evidently a housemaid.
Although Alfarez was trembling with eagerness to tell his news, he also meant to extract the greatest possible satisfaction from it, and now bent an inquiring glance upon Gertrudis.
XXVI THE CRASH Kirk had no further chance of speaking with his wife, for after the dance she was whisked away, leaving him nothing but the memory of an adoring, blissful glance as she passed.
A glance at the rigging showed him that the Santa Cruz was equipped with a plant, and a moment later he was hammering at the operator's door.
Her glanceseemed intended to warn him that she meant to be serious.
Without another word or a glance behind him, the Panamanian made off across the Plaza, barely in time to, escape the crowd that surged around the two he had quitted.
He felt like a paroled prisoner, but he thought of the girl's glance of sympathy and was instantly consoled.
The wall-paper, for instance, which at first glance he had taken for the work of some cheap decorator, turned out to be tapestry, as he proved by extending a shaky hand.
Kirk cast another glance over the place, and demurred hastily.
Kirk gazed after them eagerly, but it took no more than a glance to show him that they were not even distantly related to the object of his search.
His brow it was like the flat of a sword, And levin the glance of his side.
She turned her head, but felt his burning glance Scorch, and his words leap up.
I repeated my farewells, and, with a final and longing glance at my mysterious wife, went forth into the hall, and was let out by the liveried servant.
At the side of Barton, the coachman, there sat a stranger, who, as he passed, turned his head aside to glance at us.
It stood on the right, between Park Terrace and Scarsdale Villas; but at a single glance I saw that it was not the house to which I had been conducted.
No," I admitted; "but I only desire a glanceat the library and at the bedrooms upstairs, just to satisfy my curiosity.
Well, I scarcely know," she responded, returning my glance unflinchingly.
Well, you haven't provided many creature comforts for me," I remarked, with a glance round the stuffy little place.
I was longing for a single glance at her dear face--that face sweeter than any other in the world.
The house was one of no mean order, and a glance at the rows of books showed them to be well chosen--evidently the valued treasures of a studious man.
She took him in with a single comprehensive glance that was polite without being cordial.
And now I fear I have kept you both up very late,” with a glance to include me, “for you must be tired, and ready for your beds.
Then hisglance fell on the girl crouching on the ground, her face hidden in her hands, and there leaped into his features an expression of savage anger that transformed them.
Chaste and sweet she was undoubtedly, yet frankly inviting; and she won him utterly with the first glance of her shining eyes, even if she had not already done so in the dark merely by the magic of her invisible presence.
Silence answered his look--though it was only by a glance of subtlest sympathy--confirmed my impression.
She went and strayed through her son's rooms, looked at his books, gave a furtive glance at his linen; then went back and sat down for a little, until a renewed access of anxiety sent her wandering forth once more.
His blood froze, his hair stood erect; he cast a hurried, shrinking glance round the twilight of the darkened room: and with a feeble cry covered his white face with his trembling hands!
Fanny then cast a wild, scarce consciousglance over the apartment.
The air, indeed, was professional--the most careless glance could detect the soldier.
She flashed up at him a glance radiant with her florid fancies of anticipation.
He became very pale as hisglance burned into hers; he turned away, and she felt that it was because he feared lest in the rush of penitent passion he would confess things it was unnecessary and unwise to put into words.
Gallatin's glance fell on Winchie frowning at him.
Helen now reappeared, cast a peculiar glance in their direction, blushed rosily, hastened away toward the house.
There she fluttered a guiltily uneasy glance at Courtney.
Something less than half an hour, and when she lifted herself toglance round for the third or fourth time, she did not sink back, but slowly straightened, her breath coming quickly.
The big room contained only a few large pieces of old mahogany; at a glance she saw into every corner.
Winchie," he said thoughtfully, his glance wandering to the lawn.
Her eyes were sweet and tender when Dick, happening to glance seeingly in her direction, saw her ensconced, chin on hand, elbow on knee.
Mazie smiled a welcome, then cast a frightened glance of apology at Nanny, who did not smile.
No return thrust occurring to her, she flung a furious glanceinto his back and departed, with about all the joy out of her anticipations of the meeting.
As for Sarah, she is a good girl, a pattern to you," with a withering glance at Tom.
Then with a fierce glance at the parcel in her sister's hand, she blurted out, "You've been having ices!
Mr. Dicki'son cast a wrathful glance at the nurse, but he did not attempt to hide from his wife any longer the fact that Ada Elizabeth was not in the house.
Before we return to our own happy Canada, let us glance at Africa, the "dark continent" of the last century.
Bullion comes in gold and silver and at the first glance looks like the Oriental gold or silver threads.
At first glanceyou would think that there are five rows of tiny tucks with hemstitching on each side, until you look again closely and see that it is padded hemstitching (Figure 182).
Sometimes it is quite heavily padded and at a first glance gives the appearance of a piece of material heavily raised.
Lavretsky took her in with a glance of hatred; scarcely could he refrain from crying: "Bravo!
Varvara Pavlovna darted a swift glance at him, but Marya Dmitrievna cried: "There, God be thanked!
Don't despair," rejoined Marya Dmitrievna, and she was on the point of patting her on the cheek, but after a glance at her she had not the courage.
One glance into the sensitive, refined face of Charles Dodgson would convince us at once that no friendship he ever formed had anything but the highest aim for him.
There was something in the grip of his firm white hands, in his glance so deeply sympathetic, so tender and kind, that always stirred the little girl just as her sharp eyes noted a certain peculiarity in his walk.
Man's little day in haste we spend, And from its merry noontide send No glance to meet the silent end.
Oh yes, I know," said Miss Barrons with an appreciative glance at his precocious brow.
I daresay," said Snorky, who continued his efforts to impress his chum by staring down a large buxom lady who happened to glance their way.
He averted his eyes and then his glance came slowly back to it.
The warm contact of the little hand penetrated through his sleeve, the sound of her voice shut out all other sounds in his ears, and when he met her eyes his glanceturned hastily away and as avidly returned.
Every time he brought the battery of his blue eyes to bear upon his partner her eyes turned uneasily away and the moment his own glance was averted, back hers came, in an uncanny fixed interrogation.
Oh I know a terrible lot," she said, giving to her mischievous glance just the slightest, most complimentary shade of apprehension.
Publicly Skippy stood pledged to this uncompromising defiance of the Powers That Be, so with Slops Barnett's accusing glance on him, he answered hastily: "I caught an awful cold and got to steam it out!
Oh well," said Skippy modestly, but as he sought his bed he stole a satisfiedglance into the mirror.
But the next morning, returning early from the beach, she happened to glance into the parlor.
She gave a hurried calculating glance at the chocolate cake and went joyfully more than halfway to meet the new arrivals.
Skippy took a precautionary glance at the ends of his baseball fingers and then allowed them to come to rest on the tablecloth.
He moved with firm and measured tread, shoulders thrown back and head erect, every inch a man, and his glance was set into the future with proud recognition of his place in the complex scheme of things.
She shot a glance at him and shrugged her shoulders.
Her younger host flashed a warning glance at Louise, but it was too late.
The music had reached its climax of wild and passionate sensuousness, dominated and inspired by the woman whose every movement and every glance seemed part of some occult, dimly understood language.
She caught a glance which flashed between the two men--of appeal from the one, of icy resentment from the other.
In her search, she happened toglance out of the window and there on the roof were the whole bunch, plainly going mad in their unusual freedom.
Saying this, she cast a reproachful glance at the Professor.
Aunt Serena's pale face flushed perceptibly, and she shot a glance at the dominie over her spectacles.
The weary glancerested upon him, and a faint, faint smile furrowed the hollow cheeks.
Ever and anon he darted a glance at a boy standing close by, to discover if he meant well or ill by his outstretched hand.
To keep up courage, he threw just a glance at the beautiful face of the countess, with its near-sighted eyes--and tried to think it was for her alone that he sang.
Sitting thus, he threw a sidelong glance at Johannes, to see if he intended to do it.
Dominie Kraalboom threw a sharp glance at Johannes, and drank in silence, from his goblet of green glass, the fragrant Rhine wine.
Father Canisius considered a moment, and throwing a glance at the countess, he said: "Then did you not find the love of that good father and the good friend enough for you?
And all the time he felt resting upon him the trustful glance of Windekind.
With the same glance he saw mediaeval prints of saints in ecstasy, and plaster casts of wanton women, and the heads of emaciated monks.
I bid you all beware * When she on you bends deadly glance which fascinates the sprite: And guard thyself, O thou of spear!
A fawn, when eyes would batten on his charms, * Each glance deals thrust like point of Khanjar-dagger.
Presently, the Wazir, chancing to glance around, saw the Prince on the rug of blood and recognised him; so he arose and threw himself upon him, and so did the other envoys.
The reason I was interested was because even the glance I took showed that the girl who was 'wanted' seemed in some ways rather like me.
He did not glance toward Annesley, who sat at the other end of the table, but he must have guessed that she would turn with a start of surprise on hearing the Countess's name in this connection.
Annesley exclaimed, with a kindly glanceat her companion.
She dared not glance at Knight, to send him a message of encouragement, but she knew that for once even his resourcefulness had failed, and that he must be steeling himself to the brutal discovery of his secret.
A flashing glance gave her the name of the last station, at the end.
And passing Mrs. Ellsworth's room she would have thrown a farewell glance at its familiar chairs and tables, each one of which she hated with a separate hatred; but with a shock of surprise, she found the door shut.
His black glance sprang like a tarantula from her face to her companion's, then to his friend's.
Under cover of their departure, bowing of waiters and readjustment of ladies' sable or ermine stoles, Annesley ventured a lightning glance at the men.
Without reply, the Duke gave one quick glance towards the royal party, set spurs to his horse, and rode quickly along the road to which Woodville pointed.
He caught but a momentary glance as she hurried by; but Simeon of Roydon was quick and eager in his examination of all that is beautiful in mere form; and that glance was sufficient to rouse no very holy feelings.
After one hasty glance around, which showed her that it was vacant, she entered the small cabinet which was before her, and the door was immediately shut and locked.
Ned Dyram followed her with his eyes into the house, scrutinizing with keen and wondering glance the beauties of form which even the long loose robe of serge could not fully conceal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
