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Example sentences for "rapid glance"

  • But the run soon terminated by the death of the hare; and George, after casting a rapid glance around to assure himself that the coast was clear, sprang through the hedge to secure Ponto.

  • At a rapid glance I saw there could not be less than fifteen or sixteen sovereigns, besides a little silver.

  • Advancing into the body of the court, he cast a rapid glance around.

  • The princess exchanged a rapid glance with D'Aigrigny, and answered: "Oh, let me see!

  • I remember that, while he spoke, I cast a rapid glance at the glass.

  • Jacques and Cephyse exchanged a rapid glance, unnoticed by their joyous companions, and for some time the Bacchanal Queen remained silent and thoughtful.

  • When I was at some distance, I cast a rapid glance round: he was still standing where I had left him.

  • The girl made no answer; but she cast a rapid glance at the hump-back, and two tears trickled down her cheeks.

  • She thought that he intended to convey a sort of assurance that the secret which he had detected on the previous day, was sacred with him; and she cast upon him a rapid glance, expressive of gratitude.

  • Without waiting for the permission of his host, d'Artagnan went quickly into the house, and cast a rapid glance at the bed.

  • An instant after, the broken door was removed, and the pale face of Athos appeared, who with a rapid glance took a survey of the surroundings.

  • D'Artagnan examined her with a rapid glance.

  • A rapid glance--unseen even by her husband himself--made Laura aware of the effect produced upon him by her deportment towards the Castelcicalan; and the joy of a proud triumph filled her heart.

  • He stole a rapid glance at her and dropped his eyes on the ground without speaking.

  • Raskolnikov's mind, and with a rapid glance he scanned everything in the room, trying as far as possible to notice and remember its arrangement.

  • It's a difficult job," the policeman said to Raskolnikov, and as he did so, he looked him up and down in a rapid glance.

  • Maria Clara of Victoria, indicating with a rapid glance a youth who was following them.

  • After directing a rapid glance at the heavy stone hanging over his head and another at Elias and the yellowish individual, Ibarra said to Ñor Juan in a somewhat unsteady voice, "Give me the mortar and get me another trowel up there.

  • On all these several points she had leisure to cast a rapid glance; for her guest, or host, whichever he might be called, seemed in nowise disposed to interrupt her short and melancholy reverie.

  • A rapid glance at the heavens, an oblique look at the compass, and an occasional, but more protracted, examination of the pale face of the melancholy moon, were the usual directions taken by his practised eyes.

  • Vivian, as he entered the room, took a rapid glance at its master.

  • Vivian seized this opportunity of taking a rapid glance at the contents of the library.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always something; became editor; become less; being detected; civilized peoples; cloth gilt; conscious mind; damp places; four volumes; hasty movement; must meet; rapid fire; rapid glance; rapid growth; rapid increase; rapid march; rapid motion; rapid movement; rapid rate; rapid succession; she may; suspension bridge; that side; the seventeenth; what goes; white head