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Example sentences for "she saw"

  • When she again became conscious of her immediate surroundings--other than Dumont--she saw a deck-hand looking at her with a friendly grin.

  • She saw a great deal of several other men in her class, enough not to make her preference for him significant to the college--or to herself.

  • She saw that if the silence was to be broken, she must break it.

  • She saw that at all costs she must keep Mrs. Peniston's favour till, as Mrs. Bart would have phrased it, she could stand on her own legs.

  • Whatever perplexity he felt as to the inexorableness of her course--however little he penetrated its motive--she saw that it unmistakably tended to strengthen her hold over him.

  • But he began with a pretence of questioning her about herself, and as she replied, she saw that, for the first time, a faint realization of her plight penetrated the dense surface of his self-absorption.

  • She saw, too, in the same uncompromising light, the train of consequences resulting from that failure; and these became clearer to her with every day of her weary lingering in town.

  • Never, in all her life before, had his sister seen the balance of that calm and equal mind lost as she saw it lost now.

  • Ignorant as she was of what had happened behind her chair, she saw a change in Mrs. Lecount's look and manner which warned her to run no more risks, and to trust herself no longer in the house.

  • She saw, and saw truly, that she alone stood between him and his ruin.

  • The King sent her a letter every day, but at last, one morning, as she looked out of the palace window, she saw a messenger approaching in hot haste.

  • Just as she was stooping to fill it, she saw reflected in the water the lovely image of the Princess.

  • This was Sixth Street, still Sixth Street, as she saw at the corner lamp-posts.

  • As she spoke, she saw Burlingham in his nightshirt propped against a big blue oil barrel.

  • She saw that it was a pocketbook, instinctively put her hands behind her.

  • She saw that he was observing her, realized he could have seen her stirring feverishly about her room.

  • Susan's eyes darted from one new object to another; and eagerly though she looked she felt she was missing more than she saw.

  • The old woman looked closely and she saw, standing by each tulip, a little Fairy mother who was crooning and rocking the flower like a cradle, while in each tulip-cup lay a little Fairy baby laughing and playing.

  • As she wandered one day, travel-worn but not hopeless, she saw a lofty palace on a hill near by, and she turned her steps thither.

  • But even as she sat there, a moving thread of black crawled across the floor from a crevice in the wall; and bending nearer, she saw that a great army of ants in columns had come to her aid.

  • Near by she saw a sheltering forest, whose young trees seemed to beckon as one maid beckons to another; and eager for the protection of the dryads, she went thither.

  • She saw from a distance that the captain was on the bank sweeping the horizon with his telescope; and bidding Venn to wait where he stood she entered the house alone.

  • When Mrs. Yeobright had drawn near to the inn, and was about to enter, she saw a horse and vehicle some two hundred yards beyond it, coming towards her, a man walking alongside with a lantern in his hand.

  • And now, at the moment of rising, she saw a second man approaching the gate.

  • She saw d'Avrigny curiously examining the glass, which she felt certain of having emptied during the night.

  • She saw a woman in a white dressing-gown pouring a liquor from a phial into her glass.

  • Madame de Morcerf did not lose sight of Monte Cristo; she saw that he took nothing, and even noticed his gesture of refusal.

  • She saw in a flash her opportunity to redeem his defects, use his powers, and do large, novel, rather startling things.

  • Now he stooped down and gazed at something half concealed in the snow, then suddenly started back, and as she caught a glimpse of his face, she saw that it was ghastly white.

  • As she sat thus wondering, she was startled by a creaking in the dry branches hard by, and lifting her eye, she saw a tall, rather clumsily built, young man emerging from the thicket.

  • For an hour or so nothing appeared upon the surface of the river to cause her alarm, but then, about a bend up-stream, she saw a canoe appear in which sat a single figure.

  • She saw no more of Rokoff that day, nor of any other until Sven came with her evening meal.

  • Again he gave the abrupt foreign bow and, while Mildred was still struggling with her surprise and confusion, she saw him, through the window, driving rapidly away.

  • Also, she saw or felt a certain sexlessness or indifference to sex--and this she later understood.

  • She saw in the unpleasant eyes a glance of gratified vanity.

  • She saw in the newspapers that General Siddall had taken a party of friends on a yachting trip around the world, so she felt that she was no longer being searched for, at least not vigorously.

  • She saw in his hard eyes a look of astonishment, of curiosity as to this unaccountable defiance in one who had seemed docile, who had apparently no alternative but obedience.

  • She only knew that she should die of terror if she saw it again.

  • Did she say nothing about what she saw or heard, on that dreadful night in my room?

  • She saw it in the sudden glow of happiness which overspread his face; and she confusedly took refuge in the usual conventional inquiries relating to the relatives whom he had left at Milan.

  • She saw it all with a clearness which had never blessed her before.

  • She saw it all; and entering into her feelings, promoted her quitting the house immediately, and watched her safely off with the zeal of a friend.

  • But in every respect, as she saw more of her, she approved her, and was confirmed in all her kind designs.

  • She saw in a moment all the possible good.

  • She saw that in the growing quiet her voice had carried across the room.

  • She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

  • She saw Mr. Marbury, a woman teacher of gymnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer.

  • She saw that in a window three old women were gasping.

  • She saw nothing in life except duties to be fulfilled.

  • She blamed herself for too much severity, and could not resist the joy she saw in his eyes when, in measuring out his food, she gave him more than the doctor allowed.

  • She used her power and abused it as soon as she saw in my eyes the ardent expression which was always there when she began her sorceries.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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