One after the other, all the saints of heaven, beginning with the Holy Virgin Mary, were invoked by me that they might pray God to look down upon me in mercy, and save my soul.
And the eagle, balancing himself in the air, seemed to look down on the marvellous fall, as if absolutely taken with admiration at its grandeur and magnificence!
And may it please you, good Richard, tolook down with an eye of pity on all distressed dog’s meat sellers, and take the harness from off the dogs, so that we may obtain food to supply the worms that now gnaw our hungry bowels.
The solemn knell does most awful sound, Oh God in pity on me look down, Forgive my sins and compassion take, And grant me fortitude to meet my fate.
Brer Fox look up, he look down, he look all 'roun'.
He stopped in the act of rising, to look down at me with a strange mixture of love and wrath.
Well then, give me the farewell of years," I said, passing my arms around his neck, and compelling his face to look down at mine.
It is a great shame to look down on Ireland, and I think myself it is not right; for the potatoes are growing in the gardens there, and the women milking the cows.
O God, we call to Thee, This day and this hour, Look down on England, And her cold, cold heart.
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.
To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise.
Once indeed Zeus cast a look down at Mars and Venus and then sighed: 'Gracious Heavens, how thin they have become.
For a lame man my quarters are rather high up between Jupiter and Serapis, and I look down on the heads of all the planets and christian virtues.
The stone figures above almost seemed to look down on her with pity.
For this hill of fair olive-groves, overlooking Jerusalem, was their favorite resort, and it was their habit to come here to look down in contemplation on the holy city.
At St. Stephen's gate (the tradition is that he was stoned there) we stopped to look downon Gethsemane.
George; and they were given with a vim that caused many on the stone walk along the canal embankment to look down in wonder toward the little group.
He presently managed to swing himself around so that he could sit upon the limb and look down at his tormentor.
It was a knot an hour increase, I believe," Jack remarked, casting a look down at the throbbing motor of the Tramp.
From the vine-covered terrace on which our camp is situated we look down a wild, rocky, precipitous gorge eighteen hundred feet upon the plain of the Kishon, scarce a mile distant, so steep is it.
We are so close to their margin on the right that it makes us giddy to look down, while on the left hand grassy slopes, covered with wild flowers, rise to the base of other cliffs above us.
People who are driving have to look down; people who aren't have to look up.
He had invited her to look down on him, and she was accepting an invitation which it is not in human nature to decline.
Tito, inwardly, with a slight movement of his shoulders, the first he had made since he had turned to look down at the florins.
He said nothing, but continued to look down at her with a dreamy gentleness, and Tessa felt herself in a state of delicious wonder; everything seemed as new as if she were being earned on a chariot of clouds.
But there was no play here, for the comedy of running away to avoid a wetting with the hot water, and rushing back to look down, turned into tragedy.
Another minute and he was as high, holding on with both hands, and listening to the buzz of voices on deck, but particularly careful not to look down again.
The sun beat down through the overshadowing boughs, but the two had risen so high that the forest monarchs had become as it were dwarfed, and it was evident that they would soon be above them and able to look down on their tops.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "look down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
