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Example sentences for "she looked about her"

  • She looked about her, to see that the sky was on all sides a faultless blue, with every prospect of its continuance.

  • His words troubled her; she looked about her, large-eyed, afraid; she did not once glance in his direction.

  • When inside, she looked about her curiously, fearfully.

  • After turning back the chintz curtains, she looked about her.

  • If I hadn't promised--" She looked about her.

  • She looked about her for an instant, and then, finding feasible standing-ground, went to one of the runnels dripping down the cliff and paused there, holding the lily stems in the cool laving of the fall.

  • She looked about her as if she owned the room, the old china, and the house.

  • She looked about her, recalling the picture which it had presented to her mind on that first night.

  • As she looked about her, from her vantage place on the pillow, she felt that this was the queerest place she ever had been in.

  • She looked about her, as if unconscious of his presence, with something on her face, in her eyes, which startled him.

  • Then, removing her hands again, she looked about her, queerly.

  • She looked about her as if she were in a strange world.

  • She looked about her as if bewildered, and at last said: "And is there nothing more you want to ask me?

  • She looked about her with a vacant stare and opened her lips, but could not speak.

  • Free of this, she looked about her in a dazed way, trying to rouse herself and collect her wits.

  • But when they reached the little town, and Jessie was lifted down from the cart, and put to stand in the street while granny dismounted, she looked about her, wondering greatly where the shops could be.

  • Jessie, as she looked about her at the flowers, the pictures, and all the pretty things.

  • She looked about her, feeling her isolation like an icy wind, and for an instant knew temptation.

  • She looked about her, and in an instant Hildegarde was at her side.

  • She looked about her, and her eyes chanced to rest an instant on her table; she saw that a letter was lying on the blotting-case, which had not been there before.

  • She looked about her, half unconsciously seeking some way of escape.

  • She looked about her a little wildly and said: "Oh no, no!

  • As she looked about her, her mother stopped laughing and watched her face with a painful attention.

  • She looked about her at the luxuriously furnished great hall, and hated every inch of it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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