Use gazing in a sentence
Sentences starting with gazing
- Gazing into vacancy with wild eyes and chattering teeth, she tried to make cakes and mould dumplings out of the snow, which she probably took for flour. [10]
- Gazing across the street towards the little post-office, he saw Rosalie Evanturel at the window. [11]
- Gazing at Ingolby now there was a great hungering desire in her heart. [11]
- Gazing at the high starry sky, at the moon, at the comet, and at the glow from the fire, Pierre experienced a joyful emotion. [2]
Sentences ending with gazing
- Now, I thought, when this horrible woman represented the transformation into the spider with such repulsive accuracy, Hermon will believe that this is the true, and therefore the right, ideal; nay, I was deceived myself while gazing. [10]
Short sentences using gazing
- They stood gazing at me. [9]
More example sentences with the word gazing in them
- He had not yet been admitted to Dion's presence, but this did not appear to vex him, for he stood leaning quietly against the wall beside the door, gazing at the broad-brimmed sailor's hat which he was slowly turning in his hands. [10]
- Here stood a wooden bench on which Wilhelm liked to sit, watching the flight of his doves, gazing dreamily into the distance or, when inclined to artistic creation, listening to the melodies that echoed in his soul. [10]
- How lovingly and with what enthusiastic reverence Ottavio was now gazing up into the face of his imperial father-in-law, and with what grateful fervour, as the youngest Knight of the Fleece, he kissed his hand! [10]
- The abbess watched with delight the influence of her words upon the soul of her darling, who, gazing thoughtfully at the floor, now seemed to be pondering over what she had urged. [10]
- She watched him with an unwonted tugging at her heart as he stood for a long time by the edge of the railing, gazing over the tree-tops of the valley towards the distant hazy hills. [9]
- A young man with an unusually tall and powerful figure was standing in this yard, gazing up at a window in the second story. [10]
- He would stop with an exclamation and stand gazing, self-forgetful, for incredible periods, and she would watch him, filled with a curious sense of the limitations of an appreciation she had thought complete. [9]
- They had come with a message, whose importance would permit no delay, to the Regent Mardion, who stood between Zeno and Iras, gazing gloomily at the ground with a frowning brow. [10]
- Publius was seized with a cold shudder--like a wanderer who carelessly pursues his way gazing up at the moon and stars, and suddenly perceives an abyss yawning; at his feet. [10]
- Agne was gazing wide-eyed into the darkness; Dada had long been asleep, but she breathed painfully and her rosy lips were puckered now and then as if she were in some distress. [10]
- She was gazing where she knew him to be; but she could not imagine him otherwise than as he had been here. [2]
- And one day, when a north wind had scattered the smoke and swept the sky, Howard followed her up the paths to the ridge's crest, where she stood like a Victory, her garments blowing, gazing off over the mighty billows to the westward. [9]
- Stephanus and Paulus were silent, and yet a tacit intercourse subsisted between them as they sat gazing towards the west, where the sun was near its setting. [10]
- The lictors who were keeping off the mob had stopped Melissa too; but while Alexander had been gazing into Agatha's imploring eyes, feeling as though all his blood had rushed to his heart and face, Melissa had contrived to creep up close to him. [10]
- The widow never wearied of gazing at the young man's fresh, bright face, for although her son could not compare with him in beauty, there was an honest expression in the Junker's eyes, which reminded her of her Wilhelm. [10]
- Barbara had soon wearied of gazing at the magnificent garments and horses of these grandees. [10]
- For a moment we stood gazing at each other, questioningly. [9]
- I made my way across the glistening deck to the saloon where, my newspapers and periodicals neglected, I sat all the morning beside a window gazing out at the limited, vignetted zone of waters around the ship. [9]
- Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
- While Mavra Kuzminichna was running to her room the officer walked about the yard gazing at his worn-out boots with lowered head and a faint smile on his lips. [2]
- How kindly he was now gazing at her. [10]
- When the likeness was no more than half done, he painted his own merry face to the falcon on my wrist gazing up at me with silly languor. [10]
- The Intendant, however, was gazing towards the door where I was, and I saw he was about to come, as if to welcome me. [11]
- How long I was gazing at the shifting coast I know not, for a strange wildness was within me that made me forget all else, until suddenly I became conscious of a presence at my side, and turned to behold the captain. [9]
- The old man was gazing at the innocent creature by no means tenderly, but with the utmost indignation. [10]
- When she had walked a little way she looked back over her shoulder to see him leaning idly against the post, gazing after her, and waving his hammer in friendly fashion. [9]
- And then I used to wonder--what became of you--and whether--" I hesitated, overwhelmed by a sudden confusion, for she was gazing at me fixedly with a look I did not understand. [9]
- Some are gazing upon the pyramids while he is staring at his andirons. [6]
- He had insisted upon gazing at the universe through the coloured glasses of an outworn theology, instead of using his own eyes. [9]
- When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal man. [2]
- Eva, with her up lifted eyes, seemed to be gazing directly into the open heavens. [10]
- When I looked up again, she was gazing into the water. [9]
- She lay there under the cedars, gazing up through the delicate lacelike foliage at the blue sky, and she thought and wondered and did not care. [13]
- Stepping ashore, he turned to where the Duchess stood on the deck, gazing out into the night. [11]
- Appalled by this transition, he alighted from the car, and stood for a moment alone in the darkness gazing at the great white houses that rose above the dusky outline of shrubbery and trees. [9]
- I beheld the tortured faces of the wicked gathered on the one side, and my mother on the other amongst the blessed, gazing across the gulf at me with yearning and compassion. [9]
- The sight nearly took his breath away!--He stood gazing at the fair young face like one transfixed; then presently ejaculated-- "Lo, the Lord of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows on his throne! [5]
- He had risen, too, and stood, with a smile on his face, gazing at the lawyer with an odd scrutiny. [9]
- The Seigneur Duvarney, to whom I had not yet spoken, nor he to me, stood leaning against the wall, gazing at me seriously and kindly. [11]
- But not listening to what Firhoff was saying, he was gazing now at the sovereign and now at the men intending to dance who had not yet gathered courage to enter the circle. [2]
- The first reference to Laura's trial had brought the old dejection to his face again, and he stood gazing out of the window at nothing, lost in reverie. [5]
- All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. [2]
- His back turned to her; if she could have seen the threatening scowl with which he stood gazing on the ground she would surely have remembered the architect's warning and have postponed her address till a future day. [10]
- Then she turned to her window, breathing in the perfumes, gazing out through the horse-chestnut leaves at the green, shadow-dappled lawn below. [9]
- When he was to guide the reed in the counting-house, he sketched; when he was sent to the harbour to direct the loading of the ships, he became absorbed in gazing at the statues placed there. [10]
- Then he took to gazing into the fire. [11]
- All the way to Boston she had sat gazing out of the window at the blinding whiteness of the fields, incapable of rousing herself to the necessity of thought, to a degree of feeling commensurate with the situation. [9]
- But Clark himself, tireless, stood with folded arms gazing at the scene below, and the sunlight on his face illumined him (to the lad standing at his side) as the servant of destiny. [9]
- For a long time she sat gazing at the young, corn waving on the prairie, fingering the bunch of June roses on her lap. [9]
- A chill ran through her veins, she began to be afraid, yet could not leave the portrait, and stood gazing upward with dilated eyes. [10]
- It seemed as though she were gazing a second time at the wedding procession which was approaching St. Sebald's, and the couple who led it. [10]
- Melissa felt as though she was gazing on the face of a stranger, for, though his eyelids still quivered, his eyes were bright with ecstatic fire and his features looked more youthful. [10]
- In this altar they used to keep one of the most curious relics that human eyes ever looked upon--a thing that had power to fascinate the beholder in some mysterious way and keep him gazing for hours together. [5]
- As soon as they saw him their talking and laughing ceased, and they stopped and stood still, gazing at him with strong curiosity; they presently began to whisper together, then they approached nearer, and stopped again to gaze and whisper. [5]
- Never once--just set there gazing with all his eyes at something else, I couldn't tell what. [5]
- Elizabeth stood watching them, and remained gazing after they had disappeared; then rousing herself, she turned to leave the room, and beckoned to Angele to follow. [11]
- Here, Pierre, tell them your opinion," said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince Vasili. [2]
- Both stood straining their eyes and ears to pierce the darkness; but instead of gazing upward the star-reader's eye was bent upon the city, the distant sea, and the level plain. [10]
- When he returned, the unhappy youth was still standing in the same place, gazing, panting for breath, at his condemned work. [10]
- Then leaning against the trunk of the ancient tree, while he sank down on the bench, gazing alternately at the ground and into her face, she began: "Childhood already lies behind me, and youth will soon follow. [10]
- Honora sat in the straight-backed seat of the smaller train with parted lips and beating heart, gazing now and again at the pearly mists rising from the little river valley they were climbing. [9]
- Unheeding Joshua, or the stir in the camp, she again flung herself down with uplifted arms under the sycamore, gazing upward with dilated, tearful eyes, as if expecting a new revelation. [10]
- In due time the shores of Italy were sighted, and as we stood gazing from the decks, early in the bright summer morning, the stately city of Genoa rose up out of the sea and flung back the sunlight from her hundred palaces. [5]
- There, leaning against the shaft of a pillar, under the shade of the blossoming shrubs, she stood gazing thoughtfully to the southward. [10]
- Victoria, gazing at the scene, drew a deep breath, and turned and looked at him in the quick way which he remembered so well. [9]
- When Cynthia turned, the points of color still high in her cheeks and the light still ablaze in her eyes, she surprised Jethro gazing at her from the porch, and some sorrow she felt rather than beheld stopped the confession on her lips. [9]
- Toward 4 P.M. the other day I was gazing and worshiping as usual when I chanced to notice that shadow No. [5]
- And there stood the monarch, a man no longer young, gazing at his performance and never weary of the amusement it afforded him. [10]
- At evening, when the March wind had torn the cotton clouds to shreds, we stood on the Mississippi's bank, gazing at the western shore, at Louisiana. [9]
- The joy of the king was unspeakable, and Uarda was never tired of gazing at his daughter and holding her hand. [10]
- She saw for the first time the dignitaries of so many different nations upon whom she was gazing down, and most of whom she did not even know by name. [10]
- This has been the finest party we have been to, sitting comfortably in such a beautiful ball-room, gazing at royalty in the flesh, and at the shades of departed beauties on the wall, by Sir Joshua and Gainsborough. [6]
- He now remembered the connection that existed between himself and this man who was dimly gazing at him through tears that filled his swollen eyes. [2]
- The members of the conference stared at the Honourable Hilary, who seemed to have forgotten their presence; for he had moved his chair to the window, and was gazing out over the roofs at the fast-fading red in the western sky. [9]
- As I entered the cabin door, tired but jolly, the dingy light of a tallow candle revealed Higbie, sitting by the pine table gazing stupidly at my note, which he held in his fingers, and looking pale, old, and haggard. [5]
- Gorgo sat by the bed of her apparently lifeless father, gazing fondly at the worn and wax-like features, and listening to his breathing, now soft and easy and again painful and convulsive, as it fluttered through his nostrils. [10]
- They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. [2]
- While Mathilde, in the adjoining chamber, unpacked her bag, Honora stood gazing out of the sitting-room windows, trying to collect her thoughts. [9]
- So it was that, with bowed head, Angele left the room with the Queen of England, leaving Lempriere and De la Foret gazing at each other, the one bewildered, the other lost in painful reverie, and Leicester smiling maliciously at them both. [11]
- The fragrant marshes that bordered it were a vivid green under the slanting rays of the sun, and she was gazing across them at the breakers crashing on the beach beyond. [9]
- She stood gazing tearlessly and fixedly into the desolate room, whose walls but a few minutes before had been echoing with joy and gladness, and it seemed to her that the deserted guest-chamber must be like her own heart. [10]
- She reached her table in the outer office and sat down, gazing out of the window. [9]
- Then with a strong effort he recovered himself and, after standing for some minutes gazing in silence at the ground, he said in a low tone: "I have borne enough for to-day. [10]
- The little woman stood still a moment gazing at the steaming bowl, lines growing suddenly around her mouth, then she looked at Aunt Kate quizzically. [11]
- And as she stood hesitating, gazing at him, a desire to hear more, to hear all of this creed he preached, that fed the fires in her soul, urged her forward. [9]
- Gradually, as she stood gazing, she became aware of a beating of feet upon the snow; over her shoulder she caught the gleam of steel. [9]
- And there she stood gazing, in a sort of stupefied fascination, till we turned a corner of the wood and were lost to her view. [5]
- He rose and stood gazing off down the valley once more, and she watched him with her heart beating, with a sense of an impending crisis which she seemed powerless to stave off. [9]
- For long he stood gazing into the quiet street, and watched a daughter of the night, with dilatory steps and neglected mien, go up towards the more frequented quarter of Piccadilly. [11]
- Ezra and I stood gazing at them. [9]
- And as he stood gazing at it, a message for which he had been waiting blazed up within him. [9]
- Honora, profoundly puzzled, stood for a while in the doorway gazing out into the night. [9]
- While I was still gazing, the owner discovered her loss. [10]
- His wife was still clapping her hands at his side, but Lienhard, as though deaf and blind to everything else, was gazing at the page which the miserable little elf was just giving him. [10]
- Mary only stood still as if petrified, and after gazing at the ground for a minute or two without a cry, she turned her back on her companion and silently went back into the shaded walk. [10]
- Austen, on the steps, stood gazing across at a square mansion with a wide cornice, half hidden by elms and maples and pines. [9]
- Each, with his steady, unmoved gaze, his stiffly-curled false wig and beard, and his solemn, deliberate manner, resembled the two huge statues, which, the one precisely similar to the other, stood also motionless in their respective places, gazing calmly into the stream. [10]
- The king stood, stately as a statue, gazing toward them--had forgotten himself again, of course--and before I could get a word of warning out, it was time for him to skip, and well that he did it, too. [5]
- And he was standing with his hands behind his back gazing in simple, silent appreciation at the big tapestry nearest the windows. [9]
- Ephraim was still standing in front of the tent, gazing at the spot where Pharaoh's chariots had disappeared. [10]
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