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Example sentences for "single glance"

  • He had no difficulty in finding Honore's tent, thanks to the regulation which assigns to the men of each piece a separate street, so that a single glance at a camp suffices to show the number of guns.

  • As they floated down the stream and their horizon widened the enormity of the terrible sight increased, and when they reached the bridge of Solferino a single glance sufficed to embrace both the blazing quais.

  • A single glance at the streets of the city would convince you.

  • Yet, after a single glance, the dog lost his usual air of hostility.

  • One of these, the telegraph operator, took in the scene at a single glance.

  • As he breasted the ridge-crest, the dog took in the scene below him in a single glance.

  • It has taken us some time to give, in words, the idea which was at a single glance conveyed to Ursel, and affected him at first with great pain.

  • They were therefore able to see without difficulty; and a single glance sufficed to show them that the account of the shoal in von Schalckenberg's book was in no sense an exaggerated one.

  • A single glance at the prisoner sufficed to satisfy von Schalckenberg that Captain Popovski was acting in good faith.

  • Kenkenes caught a single glance of the eyes under the gray shelter of the heavy brows.

  • The eye of the most unlearned Egyptian could detect the sacrilege at a single glance.

  • The cup-bearer took but a single glance at Kenkenes and started back.

  • A single glance sufficed me to grasp these details, and then I turned my gaze inboard again, wondering whether any of the others had survived that awful passage across the reef.

  • But a single glance around us at the greatly altered appearance of the beach, as compared with what we had seen of it on the previous day, sufficed to explain the apparent mystery.

  • But at this moment all the treasures of the universe could not have won a single glance or a second's attention from Lecoq.

  • But he would recognize you at a single glance.

  • A single glance at the jewel enabled her to say that she had seen this earring before, and that the pair had been purchased from them by the Marchioness d'Arlange.

  • A single glance at the intruder's face and figure showed him that it was the bully of whom he had just spoken.

  • A single glance at his dull, staring, abstracted eyes and half-opened mouth showed me he was in an opium trance.

  • Four or five you can get in a single glance, but with more there you become uncertain.

  • In the laboratory we have "exposure apparatus" for displaying a card for a fifth of a second or less, just enough time for a single glance.

  • If the words make a familiar phrase, he gets a phrase of several words, containing as many as twenty letters, at a single glance.

  • He saw in a single glance all of the past; and his scrupulously just conscience did not fail to give him credit for having at least surmised something of the truth that had just been brought to light.

  • The captain gave just a single glance in the direction indicated.

  • And I flatter myself that I can still tell all about a girl after a single glance; but, my dear George, I never indeed knew what a truly perfect nature was until I came to understand Daireen.

  • I have given myself to you absolutely and for the mere joy of giving, for a single glance of your eye, for a touch of the hand which one day you offered to your Spanish master.

  • In a single glance I confided my heart to you, and you read the meaning.

  • He told me the story of some poor devil of a valet who gave up his life for a single glance from a queen of Spain.

  • His father had come in early in the morning, but, as he found the child apparently calm and received only curt answers from his wife, who did not vouchsafe him a single glance, he soon went away again.

  • It made a singular impression on me, though she flashed but a single glance at me and then instantly lowered her eyes.

  • Suddenly she seemed to feel his scorching gaze, and looked up; the blood crimsoned her pale cheeks, and she flashed a single glance at the man she so detested.

  • A single glance sufficed to show that they were Russian craft, for they were of a different model from ours, and their four funnels were arranged differently from ours, being in pairs.

  • Only a single glance at the young wife was required to recognise the boundless injustice of this reproach.

  • It only required a single glance to guess that one of those stormy scenes was being enacted which Maestro Gianelli declared were as frequent between the two as was sunshine.

  • A single glance at Adam's face satisfied Frank that he was a prisoner, and not a willing companion of the outlaw.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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