They paused for a minute or two, calmly surveying the hillsides, and minutely scrutinising every object which had any indefiniteness or uncertainty about it.
He eyed the palmer with a keen and scrutinising glance, but suddenly relapsing into his accustomed manner, he burst into a wild and portentous laugh.
Elizabeth, with a suspicious andscrutinising glance.
There was a keen scrutinising restlessness of the eye, stealing through the silvery locks about his brow, that but ill accorded with his apparent decrepitude.
Her bearing, though humble, announced her as one of the hated class, and by scrutinising her thin features we see that she is "the Citizeness Montmorency, heretofore Baroness.
It was the cold, impassive, scrutinising face of an aged dame of such overweening pride and keenness that he seemed to feel himself pierced through by her gaze.
Tom surveyed the rooms he passed through, on his way downstairs, with the scrutinising eye of a landlord; thinking it not impossible, that before long, they and their contents would be his property.
Zorzi had never seen such an assembly of imposing and venerable men, some with long grey beards, some close shaven, all grave, all thoughtful, all watching him with quietly scrutinising eyes.
He believed that Ethel was carrying on with one of the white men, and he looked at one after the other with scrutinising eyes; but there was nothing to give him even a hint.
They chatted for a few minutes of local affairs, and Lawson was uneasily conscious that the Norwegian was scrutinising him with sly blue eyes.
Ada stood before him—her dark eyes bent on his with a scrutinising glance, beneath which he shrunk abashed.
Casting again a cautious, scrutinising glance around him, Jacob Gray walked slowly down the ruined street, peering into each doorway as he went, with the hope of seeing Ada.
We approached with caution, still keeping on the trail, but also keenlyscrutinising the ground in advance of us--in hopes of perceiving the object of our search.
Scarcely staying to quench my thirst, I led my horse across the stream, and commenced scrutinising the trail upon the opposite bank.
Little more than a child," he murmured, scrutinising her.
She spoke in the plural, for Miss Wheeler, who found the skipper exceedingly bad company, had also risen, and was scrutinising the house with a gaze hardly less eager than his own.
He paused; and Matheson, looking up to inquire in what way he could be useful, discovered the searching eyes scrutinising him anew with disconcerting attentiveness.
Matheson, looking towards the speaker, met the shrewd friendly eyes scrutinising him attentively as they had done across the small table at the rondavel.
He broke off and moved restlessly on the pillow, and looked up to discover the kind, comprehending eyes scrutinising him attentively, and flushed beneath their gaze.
He joined her at the window, and stood beside her scrutinising her partly averted face.
This was a trying question for Valentine Hawkehurst, and Mr. Sheldon looked at him with a sharpscrutinising glance as he awaited a reply.
Even the old lawyer acknowledged this, after reading the quaint letter of the brigand, and scrutinising its still more quaint enclosure.
But she had never been looked at as David Powell was looking at her now; that is, as if his spirit were scrutinising her spirit, altogether regardless of the form which housed it.
But careless as Minnie's manner was, she was scrutinising the other girl's looks and ways very keenly.
He was too much absorbed in his own thoughts, to consider what those of his young secretary might be; and he was too busily engaged in scrutinising the permanent features of her face, to give much heed to its transient expression.
And how he yearned to search her face, with one long, scrutinising gaze!
Nan stopped short, quite out of breath with eagerness, and Gervase looked at her with a scrutinising smile.
For himself, he was looking a new man, and Lilias felt a stab of pain as she looked at him and met his calm, scrutinising glance.
She waited patiently until, at last, Lilias deigned to read her lover's letter, watching her face with scrutinising eyes.
Valentine took a scrutinising glance around him; with a movement swift as thought he caught up Dona Clara, and, leaping from the calli, he fell into the midst of a detachment of Comanches, who welcomed him with shouts of joy.
The first moment of emotion past, the hunter, who was thoroughly acquainted with the cunning and roguery of the redskins, bent a scrutinising gaze on the girl.
His companions followed his example, and Valentine took a scrutinising glance around.
He went slowly towards the window, as if carefully scrutinising what might present itself.
Lloyd held the minim-glass against the light, scrutinising it with narrowed lids.
It seemed to Lloyd that she would never tire of scrutinising his face, that her interest in his point of view, his opinions, would never flag.
Ethel was tossing her curls, Flora beaming from ear to ear, Kate's eyes were dancing behind her spectacles, Margaret was looking across the table at Pixie with an anxious, scrutinising glance.
Then Giustina drew a long breath and looked round, and she met Zoe's eyes scrutinising her face with a look she never forgot.
While Don Cornelio was delivering to him the message of Morelos, the Colonel directed scrutinising glances both upon the Captain and his Indian companion.
The groom turned appealingly to Rex, who sat motionless in his place, scrutinising the messenger with his stony glance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrutinising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
