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Example sentences for "swift glance"

  • Jack is going to sit right here by the tea-pot, and me," she added, throwing him a swift glance.

  • Maitland flung a swift glance at McNish and was startled at the look of rage, of agonised rage, that convulsed his face.

  • He shot a swift glance as he was retiring toward the door.

  • They both put up their lorgnons and gave her a swift glance.

  • Keith gave the girl a swift glance, and turning quietly, he asked one of the men to help him off with his coat.

  • Grafton shot a swift glance at me; and so much of malice and of hatred was conveyed in that look that with a sense of prophecy I shuddered to think that some day I should have to cope with such craft.

  • For here were these ladies in the flesh, their great, opaque, almond eyes consuming us with a swift glance, and each walking with a languid grace beside her duenna.

  • Mr. Hearn; for I think he noticed my swift glance at Miss Warren, who looked a little conscious.

  • I saw them drive away with a lowering brow, and was not disarmed of my bitterness because I saw, through the half-closed blinds, that the young girl stole a swift glance at my window.

  • A swift glance at Miss Warren revealed that the text had awakened an interest so deep as to suggest a great and present need, for the maiden was leaning slightly toward the speaker and waiting with parted lips.

  • For some reason she gave me a swift glance full of reproach.

  • And then, her eyes dancing as they shot a swift glance at him--"I should call that a pretty speech.

  • Rope shot a swift glance upward at the manager's back.

  • Ferguson flashed a swift glance at her, and she saw that his face wore a queer pallor.

  • Anthea raised it to her lips, and then pushed it back along the cockpit floor, while, though she had not meant to do so, she flashed a swift glance at her companion when he held it in his hand.

  • He flung a swift glance at the man as he realized that his observation was apposite.

  • The skipper flung a swift glance at him, in which there was a trace of astonishment.

  • Stealing a swift glance at her, expecting to see a worried light in her eyes, Lawler noted that there was a slight--a very slight smile on her lips.

  • Lawler laughed shortly--a sound that made Simmons shoot another swift glance at him.

  • Hamlin had bowed his head again after a swift glance at Lawler.

  • She shot a swift glance at him and met his honest brown eyes.

  • The old Dean shot a swift glance at his nephew; then took his arm and walked on, and looked at the vast mass of the cathedral and at the quiet English garden in its evening shadow.

  • Phineas shot a swift glance at him beneath his shaggy brown eyebrows.

  • She gave a swift glance to her companion, another to the winding road and, suddenly rising from her seat, started to leap from the chariot.

  • Persephone interposed with a swift glance at her mistress.

  • He gave her a swift glance, wondering at her woman's wit, yet resenting her speech.

  • Margaret casts a swift glance at the girl sitting there, apparently quite unconscious of the coming storm, and with her hands twined behind her head.

  • Yet I thought," with a swift glance, "that you were the one person in the world who could have told me all about her.

  • Eckhardt and his companion exchanged a swift glance as they approached the uncanny dwelling; eyeless, hoary with vegetation, rooted here and there, the front of the house gave no welcome.

  • The silence had become almost insufferable to him, and something in the manner of his speech caused the grave digger to bestow on him a swift glance.

  • She stopped, and flashed a swift glance at her companion.

  • She flashed a little, swift glance at him, but his face was expressionless.

  • She stole a swift glance at Carrie, who was then gazing out across the prairie as though in search of something, and, though the girl did not move, she fancied there was a change in her expression.

  • The doctor appeared a trifle uncertain, and flashed a swift glance at Eveline Annersly, who sat not far away.

  • Hetty flashed a swift glance at him, but Ingleby was not looking at her.

  • Grace flashed a swift glance at her, and the colour showed a trifle more plainly in her face, but, saying nothing, she hastily turned away.

  • Leger flashed a swift glance at him and pointed towards the door.

  • Lance flashed a swift glance across at his wife and child.

  • A swift glance of satisfaction flashed between the newly wedded pair.

  • She flashed a swift glance at Agatha, and saw her expression change, but Sproatly broke in again.

  • Nobody else, however, seemed to notice it, for Winifred flung a swift glance round, and then fixed her eyes upon the dominant figure in the corn-straw dress that the glare of light fell shimmering on.

  • The girl favoured him with a swift glance of scrutiny.

  • Nobody else, however, seemed to notice it, for Winifred flung a swift glance around, and then fixed her eyes upon the dominant figure in the corn-straw dress.

  • She flashed a swift glance at Agatha, and saw the girl's expression change, but Sproatly broke in again.

  • The girl favored him with a swift glance of uncertainty.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    build upon; connective tissue; consumer goods; faint voice; fetch water; four lights; her time; house again; however well; negro labor; never occurred; only remains; perhaps even; powdered sugar; pretty strong; small distance; small state; stating that; subsequent chapters; swift current; swift glance; swift water; wheeled round; your service