Looking back, he for the first time realized the frightful peril he had escaped, and shuddered.
And your Uncle,' said Florence, looking back at Solomon.
Some five minutes elapsed before Captain Cuttle could summon courage to attempt his escape; for Walter waited so long at the street corner, looking back at the house, before there were any symptoms of the hard glazed hat.
And to observe a demure lady of fifty-five or so, looking back, every now and then, to assure herself that her legs were properly disposed!
But she was somewhat concerned, on looking back, to see that the hat was removed, and that Sandy was sitting up and saying something.
I have been writing, for the last few days, in a tone of levity which, Heaven knows, is far enough from my heart, and which it has rather shocked me to discover on looking backat the entries in my journal.
On looking back to the entry referring to the lawyer's visit, we found that my recollection of the two alternatives presented was accurately correct.
On looking back, I find myself always referring to Sir Percival in disparaging terms.
By this one movement, which I have seen repeatedly of late, I know that his thoughts have gone before to another condition, and that he is, as it were, looking back on the infirmities of the body as accidents of the past.
Looking back, he seems to me rather like a captive philosopher set to tending flocks; resigned to his destiny, but not amused with its incongruities.
These thoughts suggest themselves in looking back at the striking record of the family made historic by the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Looking back [he says] on my "Lehrjahre," I am sorry to say that I do not think that any account of my doings as a student would tend to edification.
I am not much given to open my heart to anybody, and on looking back I am often astonished at the way in which I threw myself and my troubles at your head, in those bitter days when my poor boy died.
Looking back at the state of knowledge at that time, I really do not see that any other conclusion was justifiable.
But I think, looking back, that it was very extraordinary for a man, so instructed and so intelligent as he, to dwell so much on the possible anger of the Lord, rather than on his pity and love.
Looking back, I do not think that there was any sudden mental development, but that the change was mainly a social one.
Looking back, it appears to me that this unusual mental exercise was almost their only relaxation, and that in their economy it took the place which is taken, in profaner families, by cards or the piano.
She learned the Latin names of many of the species, and it seems quite pathetic to me, looking back, to realize how much trouble the poor woman took.
Looking back, I can recall one evening when the long summer twilight lingered to a close.
His arms were empty now, and he caught a glimpse of her poised on the road above him amidst the quivering, sunlit leaves, looking back at him over her shoulder.
Looking back to the time when I left America, I can recall the expectation of finding a Britain beginning to show signs of distress.
I had the highest opinion of the wisdom of this same Margin, but I am bound to acknowledge that on looking back, I deem it to have been an expensive device.
Looking back at him, I thought of the first night of his return, when our positions were reversed, and when I little supposed my heart could ever be as heavy and anxious at parting from him as it was now.
I cried, looking back in uncontrollable excitement, "I've got a fish!
Pelatiah," he said, looking back as he left the ship, "be kind to Anna and my boys.
Life to me, in looking back, seems on the whole a very natural and simple show.
Looking back, I can now see that she, most wisely, took as much trouble to fascinate us as she did the rest of the world.
Looking back at the lucky accident which brought the right book, the right reviewer, and the properly-tuned editors together, I am bound to say that I think that the editors were right and that I had produced good copy.
The thing that strikes me most, on looking back at my little volume of verse, is its uncanny competence, not merely from the point of view of prosody, but of phraseology and what I may almost term scholarship.
To stranger eyes these divisions are not evident; but each, looking back at the little track his consciousness illuminates, sees it cut into distinct portions, whose boundaries are the termination of mental states.
And it may chance that some, looking back, see the past cut out after this fashion: I.
My thoughts were pleasant, as I walked across the common in the sunset; and yet, looking back now, I wonder what I thought of, and what image there was in my mind that could make my fancies pleasant to me.
The waiter went up-stairs, looking back at Margaret as he went.
I realize now, looking back, that my recollection of the other man in the triangle is largely colored by the fact that he fell in the great war.
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