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Example sentences for "looked hard"

  • That's step the first," I said to myself; and then I looked hard at the two servants standing with folded arms motionless as bronze statues.

  • It looked hard, for he had done so much for us, but I hoped that Brace had been to him, and that he would not think it unkind of me, knowing as he would that I had been heavily on duty.

  • He looked hard at his daring associate, on whose lip the down was yet scarcely dark.

  • Having made that purely worldly remark, he looked hard at my corner, as if he expected me to go.

  • The corners of the Sergeant's melancholy mouth curled up, and he looked hard in my face, just as he had looked in the garden.

  • My lady, turning round to wish them good-night, looked hard at the wicked Colonel's legacy shining in her daughter's dress.

  • He looked hard at his client, expecting to receive a violent reply.

  • He looked hard at his son, and entered abruptly on a new question.

  • He looked hard at Blanche--and detected a momentary hesitation in her face.

  • Once again he looked hard in my face, and I looked hard back.

  • He looked hard at me again, and then said, "What was it your mother sent word?

  • I looked hard at him for a minute, my heart beating fast.

  • He looked hard at me a moment, discerning something strange in the bitterness of my last words.

  • His manner was so strange that I looked hard at him, and he, jerking up his head with a gesture of defiance, looked at me too, his face very pale.

  • He looked hard at him by such light as there was, and did not recognize him as one of our assailants of the night before.

  • While she spoke, I looked hard at the white head in the photograph.

  • I looked hard at the phantom-hand in it, that floated like a vision, all distinct before my mind's eye.

  • He looked hard at the revolver, too, and chalked its place on the ground.

  • Jane, leaning over my shoulder, looked hard at the photograph too.

  • Perhaps if he looked hard enough at what they had left behind them he might find out what men really wanted to do with their lives--perhaps he might get some hint of what he could do with his own life.

  • She carried the others back and looked hard at the ivory on both sides, making a deft fold or two with her stiff old fingers, to see how it would tie into a bow.

  • Neale's pulse beat more quickly and he looked hard at the curve of her cheek.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bank account; coloured clothes; cool place; done told; former time; grand piano; looked about; looked across; looked again; looked around; looked away; looked back; looked down; looked for; looked forward; looked from; looked kind; looked like; looked out; looked over; looked round; looked upon; nearly uniform; pale brown; quite close; right gladly