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Example sentences for "stood looking"

  • A moment we stood looking at each other, my heart swelling within me until I thought that it must burst.

  • A moment I stood looking at her; then I shifted my glance to Ramiro.

  • He stood looking at her, and I doubt not that his face was a very picture of simulated consternation.

  • This done he stood looking at me, and I at him, in a silence which on my side was the result of pure astonishment; on his, of contempt and a kind of wonder.

  • I stood looking at him in silence; in perplexity as great as if he had offered me the Crown of France; in amazement and doubt and suspicion that knew no bounds.

  • He broke off, and I stood looking at him, stunned by the blow, yet in the midst of my own horror and surprise retaining sense enough to wonder at the gloom on his brow and the passion which trembled in his words.

  • I went back after locking it up and taking out the key, and after opening the window I stood looking out to calm myself, wishing the while that I was right away among the hills far from the noise of whirring stones and shrieking metal.

  • Uncle Bob, as he stood looking on, when, after walking some distance, Uncle Dick insisted upon my taking off my jacket in a lane and having the place bathed.

  • He stood looking for an instant, then walked quickly out of the room.

  • For some seconds he stood looking at her; then, raising a stubby finger, he let his eye travel over the company, and seemed to be engrossed in some sort of mathematical calculation.

  • Arrived at the level of the street, he stood looking out.

  • He stood looking at her for a moment; then, without another word, he turned quickly away and disappeared among the trees.

  • Nevertheless, as he stood looking up at them, his sense almost of fear tempted him to make an experiment.

  • I stood looking at her, caught by her pretty ways and graceful boldness.

  • We stood looking at him, till he spoke again.

  • He stood looking down on her; then he said softly, "Yet I have forgiven your friend," and gently drew his hand away.

  • He stood looking out at the starlight for awhile, and turned and faced her again.

  • Madame la Vicomtesse held me lightly by the edge of my coat, and I stood looking down at her.

  • I stood looking at him with my legs apart, for the son of the Great Chief must not run away.

  • I stood looking at them, bewildered and astonished by Mademoiselle's loyalty.

  • He stood looking at the moon and the shadows of the trees, and thought: 'A sweet night!

  • He turned away from the bronzes and stood looking at the old leather chair in which he had sat and smoked so many hundreds of cigars.

  • And going over to a mirror he stood looking at his face.

  • And as I stood looking, I thought me it was a dreary wild place for a lass to be living her lane, with the muirfowl for company and the great geese flying north in the spring, and the bleating of sheep in the mist.

  • We stood looking down a while, for with the stopping of the snow a weight seemed to be lifted from us, and then made our way downwards towards the sea.

  • And again we started to run, zigzagging to the dark bits till we crossed the first rise, and we stood looking back.

  • It was the good Lord God who stood looking at her.

  • He stood looking at her for a long time, or at least it seemed long, though it was only twelve seconds.

  • He stood looking at it, or as nearly looking at it as he ever seemed to look at anything; and then he coughed for rather a long time and hit himself on the chest and wished them a happy Christmas.

  • Now came the question whether he could squeeze through the palings; he certainly had never tried, so he stood looking at them.

  • He stood looking at the place where she had been, but there was only mist.

  • He stood looking at the closed door, but after a moment went to the table, sat down, and threw his head forward in his arms.

  • I glanced at the latter deferentially as he stood looking out of window.

  • I really had not yet been able to make up my mind whether I liked Uriah or detested him; and I was very doubtful about it still, as I stood looking him in the face in the street.

  • Mr. Quinion, with his hands in his pockets, stood looking out of window; and I stood looking at them all.

  • I stood looking her in the face while these thoughts troubled my mind.

  • So I stood looking at it in the dreary wetness of my garments, knowing what it meant, and dreading it.

  • He stood looking at the senseless figure of the woman, as she lay across the rich Persian rugs that covered the floor.

  • When the boy had finished, he stood looking at the maestro, blushing very scarlet, and altogether ashamed of himself.

  • A gull, white as snow, came flitting by and wheeled out away over the harbour; as her eyes followed it he stood looking at her, his anger gone, but his mind only half convinced by her feeble words.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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