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Example sentences for "look upon"

  • Truly, the world hath as many eyes to look upon a man withal as there are spots on a toad; so, with what pair of eyes thou regardest me lieth entirely with thine own self.

  • For there was nothing he loved better than to look upon a tripping herd of deer, even when he could not tickle their ribs with a clothyard shaft.

  • Look upon me, have I the likeness of a sorrowful man?

  • It was impossible, they said, to look upon chance as a reasonable being, armed with a gun, waiting for Edmee at Gazeau Tower at an appointed time, in order to shoot her the moment I turned my back for five minutes.

  • There are days when the ruin of all my hopes seems to me so inevitable that I look upon myself as dead and my fiance as a widower.

  • My companion and I had traversed woods and heaths without saying a single word; we had made a long detour to avoid Gazeau Tower, which I felt I could not bear to look upon again.

  • But it's impossible for an old vagabond comrade to like your wife and family better than I like 'em, Mat, and I trust you'll look upon me as forgivingly as you can.

  • Charley, if you let her in but once, only to look upon me for one moment as I lie here, I shall die.

  • I look upon it as a pursuit which is in its nature more or less unsettled, and therefore suited to my temporary condition--I may say, precisely suited.

  • It is almost too troublesome to her languid eyes to bestow a look upon him as she asks this question.

  • Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

  • O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

  • Of Cyrus himself, even now in the songs and stories of the East the record lives that nature made him most fair to look upon, and set in his heart the threefold love of man, of knowledge, and of honour.

  • This pleased me well, for I needed naught else to look upon.

  • Would she not be marvellously fair to look upon when in happy mood, seeing that she is so fair in her displeasure?

  • Just then the damsel came out of a room, with her graceful body and her face so fair and pleasing to look upon.

  • The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle.

  • I have seen faces of women that were fair to look upon, yet one could see that the icicles were forming round these women's hearts.

  • Time has led me to look upon my offence more leniently; I do not believe it or any other childish wrong is infinite, as some have pretended, but infinitely finite.

  • And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

  • And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

  • And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

  • O, look upon me, sir, And hold your hands in benediction o'er me.

  • Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.

  • You are there follow'd by a faithful shepherd; Look upon him, love him; he worships you.

  • Then show me where he is; I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him.

  • And she was good to look upon, standing there in a glory of passion, calling back old associations and warmer life.

  • A man who could force two women such as these to look upon him a second time, was certainly a most remarkable man.

  • In Europe we are wont to look upon a restless disposition, an unbounded desire of riches, and an excessive love of independence, as propensities very formidable to society.

  • His physiognomy is to our eyes hideous, his understanding weak, his tastes low; and we are almost inclined to look upon him as a being intermediate between man and the brutes.

  • Joseph: "Beautiful as they may be while I am alive, so ghastly they will be to look upon in the grave.

  • And Rachel would pray to God in their behalf: "O Lord of the world, look upon my tears, and have compassion upon my children.

  • Sam had returned when Mr. Pickwick reached his own room, and was inspecting the arrangements that had been made for his comfort, with a kind of grim satisfaction which was very pleasant to look upon.

  • I look upon you, sir, as a man who has placed himself beyond the pale of society, by his most audacious, disgraceful, and abominable public conduct.

  • Of all things beautiful in this fair world, there is nothing so enchanting to look upon, to dream about, as the first opening of the flower of young love.

  • How beautiful is this flower of wood and iron, which we were ready to pass by without wasting a look upon it!

  • A pleasing sight it was to look upon, this array of young ladies dressed in white, with their class badges, and with the ribbon of the shade of blue affected by the scholars of the institution.

  • I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood.


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