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Example sentences for "looked back"

  • I looked back at the letter, and repeated the form of message contained in the latter part of it, word for word: "I forgive him; and one day I will let him see me again.

  • I looked back at the strange circumstances under which the letter had been discovered.

  • I looked back, and saw the doctor and the gardener ascending the stairs together on their way to the locked-up room.

  • He looked back at the quarrel on the heath with a certain complacency--he did his friend justice; though they had disagreed.

  • Passing the window of the room in which I had left her, I looked back.

  • Before she turned the corner, and showed herself within the range of view from the window Lady Lundie looked back, and signed to Blanche to wait behind the angle of the wall.

  • He looked back again at the Confession, turning over the last leaves to count how much was left of it before it came to an end.

  • Now and then he looked back, rather as a man going into a tunnel on foot may look back to the orifice which shows the light of day.

  • Before he was out of sight of the house, he looked back.

  • The many dark eyes stared solemnly at him, and he looked back at them, and he knew that his eyes told them no more than theirs told him.

  • Then he looked back no more, but always forward to the pattern of light that marked where the Loulia lay.

  • We looked back, and he was standing at the door of a little lodge, where he lived, with a pair of boots in his hand.

  • The snow had covered our late footprints; my new track was the only one to be seen; and even that began to die away (it snowed so fast) as I looked back over my shoulder.

  • He looked back on his life with a feeling kin to contempt.

  • Lady Winsleigh moved towards the door, and as she opened it looked back at her.

  • And now she came up to him, a little timidly, and she, too, looked back to the dark blotch of life out on the lake.

  • When he reached the shadows he looked back.

  • From out the gloom of the thick spruce he looked back, and a low whine of love and grief rose and died softly in his throat.

  • As I looked back, his neck and shoulders were exposed to view; turning in the saddle, I shot a bullet through them obliquely into his vitals.

  • Many and powerful as were the attractions which drew us toward the settlements, we looked back even at that moment with an eager longing toward the wilderness of prairies and mountains behind us.

  • As we looked back we saw their caravan dragging its slow length along the plain; wearily toiling on its way, to found new empires in the West.

  • But many were the far-off columns of smoke we looked back on beyond Parret, before the hills rose behind us and hid them.

  • At last we dared stand up, and still we could see no Danes as we looked back.

  • Yet when I came to the top of Cannington Hill I looked back.

  • Standing in his place, as the coach rolled away, he looked back at his friend lingering by the roadside.

  • Roderick wiped his forehead, looked back at the wall, and then closed his eyes, as if with a spasm, of retarded dizziness.

  • As he looked back on these full-flavored weeks, he drew a long breath of satisfaction, almost of relief.

  • Twice I fired at his shapely back, and twice, while he kept his speed among the tree-trunks, he looked back at me as coolly as at an odd passer-by and sent me a ball from his revolver.

  • Presently one of the examiners murmured with a certain positiveness to the other, who after a moment's silence replied with conviction; Miss Harper touched our surgeon's arm inquiringly and he looked back in a glad way and nodded.

  • He noticed you," said Gholson; "he looked back at you and your bay.

  • When he got to the door he looked back to see the lion tearin' down the hill fer the woods with the barrel bumpin' behind her.

  • Don passed the corner, looked back to see if I was coming and went on.

  • When he sighted us he stopped, looked back, then again turning toward us, he left the trail to plunge down.

  • I looked back often, and the farther out on the plain we rode the higher loomed the plateau we had descended; and as I faced ahead again, the lower sank the red-domed and castled horizon to the fore.

  • From time to time I looked back, because as we could not see far ahead all the superb scene spread and towered behind us.

  • I looked back at the last page of writing.

  • A little further on, I looked back again, and still with the same result.

  • As he spoke he looked back at the women, who were appearing once more in front of their cottages.

  • As I left the church behind me I looked back, and there were the two men again on the road below, with a third in their company, that third person being the short man in black whom I had traced to the railway the evening before.

  • I looked back at the cottage and saw the clerk coming out, with the lantern lighted once more.

  • Whenever I looked back over it I saw the two spies steadily following me.

  • I looked back, and saw that she had closed the door before I had opened the wicket by the side of the carriage gates.

  • As I crept to the wall, and raised myself against it, I looked back, and saw the window of the Count's dressing-room gleam into light.

  • I looked back at my marriage and saw the affair as it really was.

  • As he drew her hand through his arm, he looked back at me, over his shoulder.

  • He looked back, and there was the huge witch, towering over the trees.

  • He hobbled away through the forest, and as he went he looked back, and there were the little queer children all dancing together, and he heard them chattering and shouting: "Who stole the turnips?

  • He looked back, and there was the witch baby, thirty feet high, racing after him, clanging with her teeth.

  • I was, I suppose, half a minute under water, and when I rose came up as softly as I could, and turning, looked back.

  • After a break of a couple of minutes I looked back, and by a gleam of light through the ragged clouds I saw several dark forms climbing the bank behind me.

  • When I had gone a few steps, however, I looked back suddenly, and saw that curiosity was not dead, for the veteran had raised his head and was regarding me with a very queer expression.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another poem; classical writers; common carriers; compound fractures; felt when; greater value; his own; keep alive; looked about; looked across; looked again; looked back; looked for; looked from; looked full; looked kind; looked out; looked over; looked quite; looked very; mere accident; point out; small ship; then remove; urging them; well mixed