He passed the letter over to her and watched her narrowly as she read.
He could not understand why his wife laughed softly to herself as she read, and he looked on in simple amazement when she deliberately undertook to count the words.
One looking over her shoulder as she read, however, might have caught snatches of sentences here and there on the heavily scrawled page.
The king, who was a silent spectator of this scene, looked at the Princess Amelia, and saw that she blushed as she read, and her brow was clouded.
She read nothing in his face but the most heart-felt kindliness and love.
Amelia looked strangely at the king, but as she read, a soft smile lighted up her lovely, melancholy face.
She read no more, but folded it up, saying, 'I had rather no one saw the rest.
She read in silence; and then came the turn of Laura, who marvelled at the general injustice as she read.
It was from her husband, and as she read it she changed countenance somewhat, but it would be impossible to say what the change betokened, whether pleasure or the reverse.
She read it several times, and makes mention of it twice in her "Commonplace Book.
She worked sometimes; she read a great deal sitting upstairs in her own little room.
As she read it he watched her, but could gather nothing from her face.
She read and re-read it, with a half-bewildered expression in her countenance, for the joy seemed far too great for credence.
As she read, the tired look passed away, and over her pallid features, so daintily sculptured, stole a faint glow, such as an ivory Niobe might borrow from the fluttering crimson folds of silken shroudings.
She read in the records of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers that only sixty years ago, not so far back as the birth of her own father, four cabins had composed Gopher Prairie.
How the sunshine and mirth of those olden summers returned as she read.
Another bit of paper lay near it, and, unthinkingly, she read a letter which was not meant for her.
She read a little, talked a little, and slept a great deal.
At Gibraltar for some time," she read, "keeping a shop, but will probably be found now in some small town on the coast of Italy.
As she read it, she uttered a cry of anguish, and sank insensible upon the floor.
She read in his pale, sad face that he had no good news to tell her.
She read no books but her father's--a serious man who had no novels in his library, and she was longing to read some tales of romance.
She read it attentively with visible emotion, and then she said, "Dearest friend, do not be offended, but the honour of two families does not allow of my imparting to you the contents of this letter.
She took the address, and I was surprised to see her smile as she read it.
She read it several times, while her good mother wept, and then, with an affectionate and sorrowful air, she took the pen and signed.
Her face took on a sterner and graver look than she had ever yet worn as she read on, and when at length she finished the epistle, she appeared the horrified prude to perfection.
Then she mastered her emotion, and crept away to her chamber to read the letter, for she felt that it contained some fatal news, and she wished no one to witness her suffering as she read it.
The arch plotter as she read, was quick to observe this omission, and she gloated over it; it would materially help to further her designs in the future she thought, if this letter was a sample of all others which he had written her.
Helen's first smile he did not see, nor the blush which spread and rose as she read.
She read on till Lady Davenant, having finished her packet, rang a silver handbell, as was her custom, to summon her page.
But as she read, the lines cleared sharply before her.
She took the book up again, but as she read, she began to frown.
And when she (Sarah) had given her a note from Mr. Pryor, she read it and right afterwards kind of fainted away like.
Even if he only meant flirtation, she read it as of that sort from which courtship with an eye to matrimony differs only in degree.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she read" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
