She sensed that the boy, for all his youth, had a grown-up way of looking at things.
He doesn't seem exactly oriental," said Lucile, looking closely at his face.
Now it passed again, and Lucile, looking up, saw a small flock of ducks circling for a pool of water not twenty yards away.
Every moment or two you bob your head up and down in imitation of a seal awakened and looking about.
And a moment later, looking very much like the old woman who went to market, with a dead gray duck dangling from her right arm, Marian returned in triumph.
They were looking out over the sea, which was now a solid mass of ice.
And what if her good-looking college boy was a rascal?
The most forlorn-looking dog she had ever seen had touched her foot with his nose.
As Marian sat looking away at the vast expanse of drifting ice which had been restless in its movements of late, telling of the coming of the spring break-up, she wondered what had happened to the frank-eyed, friendly boy.
He was snuffing aroundlooking for something to eat.
Looking quickly, Marian caught the questioning gleam in the old leader's eye.
Guess he was looking for the brown boy, but became satisfied that he was not here," explained Marian next morning.
Perhaps," he said slowly, looking down into the trusting eyes of the dog, "we had better wait.
There," said Mary Bell, looking at the work with great satisfaction, "that is one story.
She turned her head away farther and farther from Mrs. Bell, looking over the railing of the stoop toward the white roses.
They rambled about for some time, looking at the different rooms, and at the various conveniences for house-keeping which Albert had planned, and which were all just ready for use when Albert had died.
Albert and Mary Erskine walked along the road through the whole length of the clearing, looking out for the best place to build their house.
She, however, went on, lookinganxiously about for indications of an approach to the farm, until at length she saw signs of an opening in the woods, at some distance before her.
There were also around the table four bowls full of very rich looking milk, with a spoon in each bowl, and a large supply of bread, cut into very small pieces, upon a plate near the bowls.
The horse, hearing footsteps, and supposing from the sound that somebody might be coming to catch him, was at first disposed to set off and gallop away; but looking round and seeing that it was nobody but Phonny he went on eating as before.
While the children were all busily engaged in doing this, Mary Erskine opened the other basket, and took out a pitcher of very rich looking cream.
As soon as Phonny and Malleville reached the place, Malleville stood still with her hands behind her, looking at the scene with great interest and pleasure.
All the rest of the letters, however, were new, and she had to practice writing the word two evenings before she could write it well, without looking at the copy.
The air seemed suddenly to become calm; the children stood for some time at the window, looking out at the garden, and at the pond, and the mountains beyond.
He thrust his hands into his pockets and continued looking down at the ruins with a quizzical smile on his face.
I only felt that I had been wandering and wandering in some dim, far-off land looking for someone I could never find, and that suddenly I had come into another world and found rest.
You mean," said Dartmouth, wheeling about and lookinghim directly in the eyes, "you mean that I am going mad?
I am engaged for the next dance, and I see my partnerlooking for me.
He was a fine-looking man, tall and slim like his daughter, but very fair.
She made no reply, and he got up and moved restlessly about the room; then returning he stood looking moodily down upon her.
Weir," he said, raising his head andlooking at her, "what do you think it is?
A woman was standing by the open window looking out over the water.
The spearhead is made of the wrong sort of stone," she said, without looking up.
Without looking up, Miss Wakefield said, "I hear that your mother is in trouble with the police.
He was on the opposite side, and with his extraordinary eyesight and intuition instantly recognized that the beautiful, odd-looking girl facing him on the other side of the street was blind.
No, girl, we are Romans," he answered, looking sideways at the captain.
Farley had abandoned his usual pose of sitting and looking up.
If I'm right, it will merely be a new way of looking at the Universe as a whole, and it won't have the slightest effect on anything.
There were two very odd-looking men in the booth opposite and they were listening to the conversation.
You can't go looking for good and evil motives in everything that happens.
Doctor Farley got up and walked to one of the windows and stood looking out at the observatory across the campus.
He pulled it back and was looking angrily at it when she came out again and sat on the ground.
Farley was looking as intelligent as he possibly could, but it was plain that he was out of his depth.
But this writer well knew, that looking to the effect of emancipation on the condition of the laboring class in England, it has been a cruel and monstrous failure, from first to last.
Inferior and superior act and re-act on each other through agencies and media too delicate and subtle for human apprehensions; yet, lookingto usual results, man should be willing to leave to God what God only can regulate.
But we have been looking merely to one side of human nature, and to that side rendered darker by the false, antagonistic and competitive relations in which so-called liberty and equality place man.
Looking to theory, to the examples of the Ancient Republics, and to England under the Plantagenets, we shall find that Southern institutions are far the best now existing in the world.
Few of us are honest when looking for our own faults.
I may be prejudiced, but it does seem to me that the strict vegetarians are skinny, sallow looking lot of humans, speaking generally.
Women are generally raised without any requirements of economy; they are pretty birds, and used to preening and smoothing their plumage and looking pretty.
Looking at the fine and delicate-featured girl, in whose surroundings you behold evidences of so much taste and refinement, you could scarcely be made to believe that the gross organization by her side is to her liking.
He broke through the surrounding throng, rushed on, fled from the Presence Chamber, eagerly looking for his bride.
Looking back, we can now see that much that was trying to the patience of the loyal masses of the North in the early stages of the war, has only served to make it more certain that what ought to be will be.
In looking over the war, we can all now see a very great error in the military administration--the neglect, namely, to provide and keep up a proper reserved force.
Possibly our disinterested friends across the water, calmly looking on from a distance, may be better able to understand the tendency of events, and to foresee the issue of the mighty civil contest which rages around us.
The other is a stylish single-seat phaeton, with two horses tandem, and a rather flashy-looking servant in gay livery.
It thus removes the unjust distinction wont to be made between the drafted man and volunteer, looking upon each as a true soldier of his country, equally interested in its honor and perpetuity.
I had nearly forgotten to point out a very genteel-looking young man in black, who wears a distressingly long frock coat and a white neckcloth, who escorts Mrs. Meeker to her carriage, and enters it after her.
I am looking forward tremendously to the fancy-dress ball at the Stenborgs' the day after tomorrow.
Rank (in a lower voice, lookingstraight in front of him).
Nora, you can't think how I am looking forward to this evening.
Because it is such a narrow-minded way oflooking at things.
At the moment Blunt came upon the picket, the cavalry was looking in another direction.
The implements and tools require a good deal of looking after.
In looking about me, I found that many of these charges against the negro were true.
Once I asked a rough-looking farmer, "How far is it to Sand Springs?
Looking down, I discovered a human skull, partly covered by the luxuriant grass.
The chaplains and the surgeons busied themselves in looking after the general health of the army.
Frequently the buyers transfer their cotton to other parties without once looking upon it Sometimes cotton is sold at auction instead of being offered at private sale, but the process of "sampling" is carried out in either case.
We were looking to a brilliant future, and echoed the wish of Jefferson Davis, to be "let alone.
The line run from Pachynus to Lilybæum (which is much to the west of Pelorias) is considerably diverged from the south towards the west, having at the same time an aspect looking towards the east and towards the south.
Looking at this passage, however, in connexion with another in the 15th Book, we are inclined to answer the question in the affirmative.
But he himself turned back his shining eyes apart, lookingtowards the land of the equestrian Thracians and the close-fighting Mysians.
It appears ash-coloured to the eye, cavernous hollows appear formed of blackened stones, looking as if they had been subjected to the action of fire.
Then Tom stood looking down at the flushed face of his chum, muttering below his breath: "Harry, old fellow, I wish your mother were here.
Because trouble is the most worthless thing in the world, yet a fellow who goes looking for it is always sure to find twice as much as he thought he wanted.
You've got that much of your information straight," assented Tom, looking up with a smile.
Jim Ferrers, who had been looking over the shoveled back rook with Harry.
With him, looking more like two evil shadows or spectres, were his two remaining companions.
There's always trouble for those who are looking for it," Tom rejoined smilingly.
I've beenlooking about, and making an assay every now and then.
Gage is stamping about and looking wild," Harry reported.
I'm short of money, but I'm not looking for blood money.
The fellow who goes looking for trouble is always a fool," Tom remarked.
They are looking for good men in New York all the while.
Looking back into the room, she saw the smoke filling it, and quickly scrambled out on the window frame.
I heard a rush in the hall and saw Annie's terrified face looking into the room, but she did not see me.
In the briefest space we were at the crest by the road, looking down upon the pond.
Looking at me with a glance that warned me, he stepped out and into a car that was approaching.
One of the gardeners returned with her, and as he came into the room I received the impression of a silent, stern-looking man, past forty and rather strong in appearance, although not large.
Oakes stood at the window, his hands in his pockets, looking out.
I noticed that Moore and Hallen were looking at me curiously; and then Oakes stepped to my side from somewhere out in the darkness.
Oakes was given the back room looking on the river, and over the balcony; Moore and I occupied the front room, over the parlor.
Late one night, after about a week, I was looking out of one of the windows in the dining-room, watching a boat passing.
Looking out of the window at that moment, I espied Hallen coming up the walk.
I answered, saying something about I was glad he did--and uponlooking up, I saw he was gone.
The latter had been standing in the shade looking after the man who had gone, when suddenly, seeming satisfied that he was not watched, he vaulted into the saddle.
She broke off her reminiscences to throw the Earwig a solicitous: "Johnny, dearest, is no one looking after you?
Letty caught up a towel and huddled it close, looking like a water-nymph taken unawares by a mortal.
Peter crossed to the fireplace, lit a cigarette, and stood lookingdown upon the man in the arm-chair.
And then Stuart realized with horror that she was looking remarkably pretty.
If I married Letty, I should have to sit for the rest of my life at a dining-room table, looking at the food.
When all this and much more had been duly admired, there were brought forward an empty casket and fifteen trays, in which were an hundred thousand ducats of gold, which were put into the casket "before all the Signori.
But then all this was four hundred years ago: and the world must have grown wiser since then!
Northend)] One can almost tell a man who sleeps in the open by looking at him.
The whole idea of casting a fly is to drop it in the most likely-looking places and to strike the fish just as soon as he seizes the hook.
The reason is that we hold our head so high up in looking at our game that we fail to see the rear sight at all.
With a crosscut saw, we can make better looking logs and with less work.
Also try to avoidlooking like a tramp, which is quite different from looking like a tramper.
In your excursions you will find all sorts of queer looking eggs and specimens.
Its principle ingredient, cyanide of potassium is a harmless lookingwhite powder but it is the most deadly poison in the world.
I once went fishing with a clergyman and I noticed that he stood for a long time looking at a pure white water lily with beautiful fragrance that grew from the blackest and most uninviting looking mud that one could find.
You may go a number of miles and at the end be deeper in the woods than ever, but your friends who are looking for you, if they can run across one of your blazes, will soon find you.
It should always be made of old weather-beaten boards in order not to frighten away its prospective tenants by looking like a trap of some kind.
At any rate," she said, looking at the handsome solitaire on her finger, "I can keep the ring.
By calling me Miss Tabor and winning the game to-day," she said, coolly, without looking up from the maps.
You're looking fine," replied McMahon, manager of the cafe, who in his youth had played ball on the team with the now famous Clancy.
Five minutes later the car was quivering with its increasing speed and McCarthy, looking at the gauge, saw that it registered forty-seven miles, and was still sliding forward.
I couldn't find out what happened, but Williams came out looking as if he had been jerked through a knot hole.
And he's got more brains in that funny-looking little head of his than this whole bunch has.
Faster and faster it went, and, near the end of the station, McCarthy realized he had lost the race and, stopping, he stood dejectedly looking after the rapidly disappearing observation car.
He pitched without looking to see what Kennedy signaled, and "Sacred" White, the center fielder of the Blues, drove the ball to left center for three bases.
The mountaineer sat looking closely at Easter, who was listlessly watching the moon as it rose above the Cumberland Range and brought into view the wavering outline of Pine Mountain and the shadowed valley below.
Raines had recovered himself, and waslooking at the girl seriously.
Moving away, she stood leaning on it in the shadow, looking down.
Why, ye look like another man," said Easter's mother, who had been looking Clayton over with a quizzical smile.
Striking the curtain accidentally, he loosed it from its fastenings, and, doubling the pillows, he lay lookingout on the swiftly passing landscape.
Sartinly," said the old woman, looking him over curiously.
When the two fiddlers came, he led them in with a defiant air, and placed them in the corner, bustling about officiously but without looking at Raines, whose face began to cloud.
When the brute stopped, she began striking him in the flank with her bare heel, without looking around, and as he paid no attention to such painless goading, she turned with sudden impatience and lifted a switch above his shoulders.
The bull, a lean, active, vicious-looking brute, answered with a snort.
Now one autumn morning, as the blessed Mael was walking in the valley of Clange in company with a monk of Yvern called Bulloch, he saw bands of fierce-looking men loaded with stones passing along the roads.
With impatience and grief she resented his not looking at her.
Chatillon was good-looking and fortune favoured him.
However, Greatauk, his eye-glass in his eye, was looking at the formidable pile of papers with less satisfaction than uneasiness.
He fell at her feet in distraction, but once more looking at his watch, he jumped up with a terrible oath.
And bending forward with her head on one side and her chin on her shoulder, she kept looking attentively at the appearance of her toilet.
As she went along the shore, others coming back from fishing, went up to her, and after looking at her, walked behind her.
He had better not try to use that nasty looking whip around here, that's all I want to say," remarked Bud Morgan, who had joined Hugh and Billy.
He may have been looking for a chance to pick up something worth eating.
Several lads were bustling around, tidying up the camp, looking after the fires and apparently making ready for rather a lengthy and enjoyable stay.
Two of them roamed the neighborhood looking for birds of every description.
I was just coming out of some woods into a side road when I heard loud voices, and noticed three foreign-looking men passing through a pasture where there was a bunch of cattle feeding.
When he sprinkled a little more of the water over the man's face, the puzzled black eyes were looking up at him.
That's good," the other hastened to say, and looking as friendly as he could.
You didn't see anything more of the three foreign-looking men then, Arthur?
They were on the whole a tough-looking crowd, and seemed to be muscular workers, some natives, others of foreign birth.
He nodded his head and, darting into a shanty close by, came out bearing a tough-looking mattress.
Under some of the rocks the boys discovered a few ugly looking dobsons or, as Bud called them, hellgamites.
Billy was looking around as though he wanted to make sure the coast was clear before he said something he had on his mind.
When he uttered these words he fell again atrembling, and was stopped in his speaking, looking lamentably at me, designing me to be the person he aimed at; then he fell a crying and lamenting.
Meanwhile, Passepartout was looking about for the train.
Sombreros and red shirts and plumed Indians were rarely to be seen; but there were silk hats and black coats everywhere worn by a multitude of nervously active, gentlemanly-looking men.
Mr. Fogg had just awakened, and was lookingout of the window.
The carriage stopped before a modest-looking house, which, however, did not have the appearance of a private mansion.
Fix got up in a somewhat rumpled condition, and, looking at his adversary, coldly said, "Have you done?
Looking at the matter from every point of view, it did not seem to him impossible that, by some mistake, the man might have embarked on the Carnatic at the last moment.
Hearing that Mr. Phileas Fogg was looking for a servant, and that his life was one of unbroken regularity, that he neither traveled nor stayed from home overnight, he felt sure that this would be the place he was after.
Passepartout, on waking and looking out, could not realize that he was actually crossing India in a railway train.
His admiration for beauty is very great, and put me much in mind of you, when he drove out with us, looking out for pretty people.
So he told Lord Aberdeen that he had given up that idea; it was clear, however, that he was now looking for an opportunity to break up the Government on some popular ground, which it was impossible to hope that he should not find.
I am delighted to hear that the Queen is so well; he said she was looking remarkably well yesterday.
Fanny and Lord Jocelyn dined here last night; she is looking very well, and he seems much pleased at being in office, and being employed.
He is very cheerful, kind, and civil, and would be very good looking if it were not for his poor eyes.
When she was riding on her pony, and looking at the cows and sheep, she turned to Mdlle.
Lord Melbourne has just driven round the Regent's Park, where there are many almond trees in bloom, and looking beautiful.
He immediately left the car and came, looking pale and frightened, to Mr Mayne.
The King and Montpensier arrived quite safely at two, and are both looking extremely well.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
