In a very business-like way she took a candle and stood before me, pale indeed, very pale, but with an expression only of intense scrutiny with a dash of horror in it.
While I was still eying it with jealous scrutiny the door reopened, and Tress came in again.
She shrank from my scrutiny with a nervous movement and flushed to the roots of her red-brown hair.
It is also one which requires a close scrutiny and cool, deliberate investigation.
Gip regarded his glass ball sagely, then directed a look of inquiry at the two on the counter, and finally brought his round-eyed scrutiny to the shopman, who smiled.
And a still more careful scrutiny convinced him that each one in a vista of nearly twenty carried a similar object.
He had singled out the first of two hotels when another citizen, turning the corner, stopped in his tracks and looked Bill over with a deliberate scrutiny that left but little to the imagination.
Neither had paid any attention to Norah in the earnestness and keen-eyed scrutiny of each other and the first sign they had of her actions was when she threw her arms around Greener's neck and shielded him.
After a scrutiny of some seconds, he slid the disc into its place and rapped softly upon the door.
With experienced eyes, Toftrees surveyed the morning's work-menu as arranged by Miss Jones from painstaking scrutinyand dovetailing of the husband and wife's work on the preceding day.
Her clear gaze, the blue eyes black beneath the shadowing thick lashes, met each answering pair of eyes with a steady scrutiny which did not once waver.
Ferry had given them both a quick look of keen scrutiny as he saw them standing there alone together under the lanterns.
Much more than I should have expected," he was forced to admit under the scrutiny of her eyes.
Then will you set yourself to the task of glancing over the margin of every newspaper, piling them away in another room when your scrutiny of each is complete?
I have always held that these sheets should not have been kept, for, as has been the case, if they fell under the scrutiny of so intelligent a person as Eugène Valmont, improper inferences might have been drawn.
Your uncle's mania for buying things at second-hand was broken in three instances so far as I have been able to learn from a scrutiny of these accounts.
Then she turned her deliberate scrutiny to the house itself.
As she gave a parting defiant scrutiny to her opulent sister her black eyes snapped in hollow reminiscence and she called out, "Say--how's your parrot?
He had, of course, as became a man of sense, duly weighed his obstacles against his advantages; but an impartial scrutiny had found the latter heavier in the balance.
He knew without being told that he was under close scrutiny from eyes unseen; which was what he desired and had prepared for.
Scrutiny reveals as much in the history of our own globe.
The length of time during which the disk was then kept under scrutiny resulted in the method of its metamorphosis being discovered.
That continued scrutiny is thus corroborative of the earlier results, both along the old and along new lines of investigation, warrants additional confidence in the conclusion.
That the detection was not made much earlier than actually happened shows how a phenomenon may elude observation if scrutiny be not persistent, and its results from time to time not carefully compared.
To this difference of level is probably due the peculiar phenomenon which there manifested itself to careful scrutiny in 1894.
Now, scrutiny of the notes upon the appearance of the two canals, together with their labeling by the seasonal longitudes of the planet at the dates they were made, discloses a curious relation between the two.
The most careful scrutiny would fail to disclose them, where some time before they had been perfectly clear.
His immediate detection of one who was without the prescribed garment implies a personal scrutiny of the guests.
In short, in that day of trial, it is not a scrutiny of churches, but of individuals in the Church.
This darnel is easily distinguishable from the wheat and barley when headed out, but when both are less developed, 'the closest scrutiny will often fail to detect it.
He was contemplated with sharpscrutiny by a woman, who, with arms a-kimbo, blocked up the door of the cottage.
For a while they stood opposite to one another, Josepha, in painful confusion; Joseph, his eyes bent with cold scrutiny upon her person.
The banker looked the emperor full in the face, and bore the scrutiny of his searching eyes without wincing.
Alt last the scrutiny was ended, and he turned slightly toward the hair-dresser.
His first thought, when even after a second scrutiny no pyjamas were visible, was that this was merely another of those things which happen on days when life goes wrong.
Archie spun round and subjected the room to as close a scrutiny as that which he had bestowed upon the cupboard.
He resumed his gloomy scrutiny of the hopeless horizon.
But there remained something in his manner towards Ann; in the glances of scrutiny he gave her unawares, that kept Kipps alertly expansive whenever he was about.
He resumed his wistful scrutiny of the sunlit sea.
The neglect of examination can never advance truth, as the severest scrutiny can never retard it, but belief without discrimination can only foster ignorance and superstition.
The surface of the river, every inch of it, was under the careful scrutiny of a thousand watchful eyes.
Standing aside, but keeping on his guard for fear of a surprise, he would have allowed the person to pass, but the other halted, and after a moment's scrutiny addressed him by name in the tones of Humphrey Chetham.
A moment's scrutiny of Jasper's villanous countenance satisfied Mounteagle that the Earl of Salisbury was not mistaken in his man; and, as soon as he supposed they were alone, he unhesitatingly opened his plan to him.
Topcliffe, with another party, continued his scrutiny below, and discovering the moveable flag in the hearth, descended into the vault, where he made certain of discovering his prey.
Whatever effect this scrutiny might secretly have upon Catesby, he maintained a cheerful and confident demeanour, and mounting a flight of steps, harangued the band in energetic and exciting terms.
From the bridge and the quarter deck similar scrutinywas brought to bear.
As soon as the boys arrived in the postoffice they perceived that they were the objects of very general scrutiny by the usual group assembled 'round the re-erected stove.
This was always a good vote and scrutiny of good votes was impossible.
At Manchester the cards were not numbered consecutively, as in Victoria, so that (assuming the officials to be free from corruption) no scrutiny could have detected by whom particular votes were given.
Sam, his scrutiny of Rosalind's face pointed to the verge of annoyance.
For a minute he studied his bearded visage in the mirror, a scrutiny that ended in a grimace.
It was easy enough to account for Jeremy Taylor by the vague generalization of beauty, and I forced myself to a closer scrutiny of that term and my meaning.
The woman who had admitted me, a figure whose instant scrutiny resembled the unsparing accuracy of a photograph by flashlight, after a polite greeting, ignored me absolutely, and I was left to follow my fancy.
He seemed very much in earnest; I was watching him as closely as I might without making my scrutiny offensive; and there seemed to be the ring of conviction in his voice, while the expression of his eyes indicated concentrated thought.
