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Sentences starting with looking

Looking over this wonderful prospect of the St. Lawrence, he had an insistent feeling that he ought to remain in the land where he was born, and give of whatever he was capable to its life. [11]
Looking at the whole field for a moment dispassionately, objectively, as the dear Teutonic philosophers say, and merely as an exhibition of phenomena, I cannot imagine any other issue. [6]
Looking after Barry Whalen's retreating figure he saw this new, grave world opening out before him; and as the vision floated before his eyes, Barry's appeal that he should visit Jasmine at the hospital came to him. [11]
Looking intently that way one night, he plainly distinguished an eye gleaming and glistening at the keyhole; and having now no doubt that his suspicions were correct, he stole softly to the door, and pounced upon her before she was aware of his approach. [12]
Looking at his watch he saw that, if they got a cab, they would get to the station before the train started, and he wondered how he could retard Barouche. [11]
Looking to a very remote period in the history of the world, we find, to use Sir J. Lubbock's well-known terms, a paleolithic and neolithic period; and no one will pretend that the art of grinding rough flint tools was a borrowed one. [1]
Looking back upon this afternoon in the light of after-years, she probably could not feel--no one could say--that she had done wrong. [4]
Looking deeply into these things, we find that "a zeal . [5]
Looking down on the wreck, Mazarine saw his treasured porcelain shattered. [11]
Looking out from the windows of Mont Orgueil Castle, or from the deck of the Imperturbable, he could see--and he could scarce choose but see--the lonely Ecrehos. [11]

Sentences ending with looking

She said nobody was looking. [5]
Four times he walked me up the road to a point whence we could see a long distance; and there he would stand, shading his eyes with his hand, and looking. [5]
It is the union of simplicity with grandeur, for which we have all been looking. [4]
A walk through the grounds of Magdalen College, under the guidance of the president of that college, showed us some of the fine trees for which I was always looking. [6]
She was dressed simply in a shirtwaist and a dark skirt, but Honora thought her striking looking. [9]
What a fool she was, and M'sieu' Jean Jacques so rich and kind and good- looking! [11]
They were the scrawny, tough ponies of the plains, reasonably cheap, and it took no great discernment on my part to choose three of the strongest and most intelligent looking. [9]
The sun had reached the other side of the house, and its slanting rays shone into the open window, lighting up the room and part of the morocco cushion at which Princess Mary was looking. [2]
On board ship one tires of the aspects in a couple of days, and quits looking. [5]
The small, round, leaden-cased panes, however brightly they might be polished, permitted only a narrow portion of the street to be seen, but the burgomaster seemed to have found the object for which he had been looking. [10]

Short sentences using looking

He was looking tolerably mellow. [5]
Looking after those ten millions. [4]
Were they looking suspicious? [5]
Looking backward, we see this. [4]
Looking up he saw Sapphire. [11]
Signs are looking pretty fair. [7]
Looking for an opening? [5]
Everybody was looking on. [4]
You are looking older--older. [11]
Fine looking old man. [9]

Sentences containing looking two or more times

I never rightly understood until just now,--and that because I was always looking up, while you'd be looking down, and seeing nothing but the bent backs of them. [9]
Our bedroom has two great glass bird-cages (enclosed balconies) one looking toward the Rhine valley and sunset, the other looking up the Neckar cul-de-sac, and naturally we spend nearly all our time in these --when one is sunny the other is shady. [5]
It was looking toward the verge of the landscape, yet looking at nothing--nothing but distance and vacancy. [5]
Then he seemed to choke, and words would not come, but he kept looking, looking at Sebastian Dolores, as though fascinated and tortured by the sight of him. [11]
While your correspondent stood looking at the spectacle, the Duke of Newcastle came in, and he sat looking too. [9]
He went like stone, looking, looking at them. [11]
Clean shaven, with snowy linen and lace, his own natural hair, silver white, tied in a queue behind, he had large eloquent wondering eyes that seemed always looking, looking beyond the thing he saw. [11]
And there they set, now, and I told them they would be looking sick before I got done, and that is the way they're looking now. [5]
When she was not looking at him she felt that he was looking at her shoulders, and she involuntarily caught his eye so that he should look into hers rather than this. [2]
In the silence, looking neither to right nor left, she advanced almost to where the Greffier sat, and dropping on her knee and looking up to the Bailly and the jurats, stretched out her hands and cried: "Haro, haro! [11]

More example sentences with the word looking in them

The woman was young, good looking, she seemed intelligent. [11]
Of course the young schoolmaster will come, and that poor tired-out looking Helen, if only to get out of sight of those horrid Peckham wretches. [6]
He saw the young man was looking nervous. [6]
I said that you were in love with her once, Davy, when I saw you looking at the portrait. [9]
I have always you know, been looking for something. [4]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. [5]
It comes between you and your work; you see it looking out of the eyes of a friend. [11]
She was smiling, yet looking at us with shining eyes. [9]
First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
He does not work, except when people are looking, and only then when the observer has a green, naturalistic look, and seems to be taking notes. [5]
Kitty ceased her work for an instant and, looking away from him into the distance, said: "Three people said those same words to me all in one day a thousand years ago. [11]
As the morning wore on, they saw upon a crag of ice below the sloping glacier two men looking upwards towards the flag. [11]
Pierre, without a word, began cleaning his rifle, while Macavoy smoked, and sat looking into the distance, surveying the sweet warmth and light. [11]
But if he won't--that's his affair," said Marya Dmitrievna, looking for something in her reticule. [2]
Naturally, the distant witness supposed they were now looking upon three corpses; so they could hardly believe their eyes when they presently saw two of the men rise to their feet and bend over the third. [5]
Dolokhov walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face. [2]
Then she said, without looking up:-- "I do not know why I have tired you with this, why I have saddened myself. [9]
She spoke now without looking at Justine. [11]
Felion sat just within his doorway, looking out into the sunlight which fell upon the red and white walls of the little city, flanked by young orchards, with great, oozy meadows beyond these, where cattle ate, knee- deep in the lush grass and cool reed-beds. [11]
Seldom did Jane Withersteen enter her room without looking into her mirror. [13]
Verus at once withdrew into the window and pretended to be absorbed in looking out on the harbor. [10]
The barefooted lads, with their nimble, gazellelike legs, were all well looking, and might have been cast all in one mold. [10]
Her eyes filled with tears again, as she thought of her friend--her sister-sitting in that palace alone, forsaken, banished, and looking forward to an ignominious death. [10]
After my talk with McCann I was sitting on the forecastle propped against the bitts of the Maria's anchor-chain, and looking at the swirling foam cast up by the tug's propeller. [9]
He was sitting, with his legs crossed, looking up at her intently. [9]
Beside my couch, with his hands on his hips and his feet thrust out, stood Gabord, looking down at me in a quizzical and unsatisfied way. [11]
Fournel was standing with his back to the door, looking out into the moonlit night. [11]
When I sat with her on deck at night, I seemed to feel Boyd Madras's face looking at me from the half-darkness of the after-deck; and Mrs. Falchion, whose keen eyes missed little, remarked once on my gaze in that direction. [11]
Suddenly I discovered with a flush that she was looking at me intently, without embarrassment, but with an expression that seemed to hint of humor in the situation. [9]
I had a wife once," he added in a kind of troubled dream, looking at her as if she were very far away, "and her name was Mercy--her name was Mercy--Mercy Madras. [11]
The old man, whose name was Ripley, wore a nut-brown hunting shirt trimmed with red cotton; and he had no sooner slipped the packs from his horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. [9]
The third, upon whose figure Austen's eyes were riveted, was seated on a stone bench set in a recess of pines, and looking off into the Yale of the Blue. [9]
The handsome Vera, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. [2]
Mr Sampson Brass, who no doubt had his reasons for looking sharply about him, soon learnt to distinguish the pony's trot and the clatter of the little chaise at the corner of the street. [12]
A poor rope-dancer, who had been robbed by a thief in the crowd, of the little tin box containing he pennies he had collected, was running about, ringing his hands and looking for the watchman. [10]
The, stout woman, who had been looking on with that intensity of sympathy of which the poor are capable, began waving gently the palm-leaf fan. [9]
She was as white as ever, but she was looking no whit worse than she looked when she had first appeared the day before. [5]
His face was white and set; his head was thrust forward, as though looking at something far ahead of him; the pony stallions he was driving were white with sweat, and he had an air of tragic helplessness and panic. [11]
I asked him whether he had any objection to my looking it over before he read it. [6]
I was placed where, looking east, I could see the Island of Orleans, on which was the summer-house of the Seigneur Duvarney. [11]
He struggled, but when she released him he sat very still on her knee, looking into her face. [9]
I was thin when I went, but I was meagre indeed when I returned, my face looking grey and very old, with strange deep lines ploughed in it--my eyes stared unnaturally. [14]
After the dance, when he was taking her to her mother, he saw a pale intense face looking out to him from a row of others. [11]
It is not what they are looking for --especially a new guide. [5]
Daylight saw him, wet, haggard, broken, looking out over the waste of shaken water. [11]
Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly patronage at the dancers. [2]
All the gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted and very blue about the beards; and all the ladies were miraculous figures; and all the ladies and all the gentlemen were looking intensely nowhere, and staring with extraordinary earnestness at nothing. [12]
Lady Tynemouth's eyes were turned to the window; Stafford stood looking into the fire. [11]
At last they were roused by the sound of a horn, and, looking down, they saw a four-in-hand drawing smartly down the road to the village over the gorse-spread common, till it stopped at the Cloistered House. [11]
The gray squirrels were out looking for their breakfasts, and one of them came toward us in light, soft, intermittent leaps, until he was close to the rail of the burial-ground. [6]
Beyond the valley were mountains picturesquely grouped together; but bear in mind, we fancied that we were looking up at these things--not down. [5]
The other pirates were looking their last, too; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the current drift them out of the range of the island. [5]
Eagerly as we were looking out for it, we passed the great Ramsey's without knowing it, for it was the first of a little settlement of two houses and a saw-mill and barn. [4]
Thousands of eyes were looking at him from all sides awaiting a word from him. [2]
For those who were looking at her were the chief citizens of Alexandria; they stood on the stage, and among them stood kind tall Pollux, waving his hand to her. [10]
Snatches of song were heard, and voices of men who had had a full meal and had "taken observations"--as looking through the bottom of a glass of liquor was called by people with naval spirit--were mixed in careless carousal. [11]
Behind the house were clumps of lilacs with a century's growth upon them, and looking more like trees than like shrubs. [6]
The Boyne Works were buying up coal-mines, and this was a contract looking to the purchase of one in Putman County, provided, after a certain period of working, the yield and quality should come up to specifications. [9]
Passing Theddlethorpe, you went up to Faddo's house, and, looking through the window, you saw Faddo, not dead, but being cared for by his wife. [11]
On Saturday she went to Lambeth, where she had the pleasure and honor of shaking hands with the Archbishop of Canterbury in his study, and of looking about the palace with Mrs. Benson. [6]
From Switzerland I went to a foggy place called London, and thence I crossed the ocean to the solemn forests of the north of Canada, where I was many years, learning the characters of these gentlemen who are looking in upon us. [9]
Such a well-dressed, well-satisfied, well-fed looking crowd poured down the broad sidewalks before the handsome, stupid houses that March could easily pretend he had got among his fellow-plutocrats at last. [8]
You're not looking well; you've worked enough for to-day; go down to my cabin and eat what you want, and rest. [5]
Everything was looking well, and yet it was plain that one vigorous and determined enemy might eventually succeed in overthrowing all her plans. [5]
Here I am, well on the way to fifty, after twenty-five years of hard work, looking forward to the potential poor-house as confidently as I did in youth. [8]
She was looking well now, and most fair and beautiful after her fortnight's rest from wordy persecution. [5]
You are, looking well Mr. Sterling. [5]
He arrived alone, wearing the silk hat which had become habitual with him now, and stepping into his barouche at the station had been driven up Brampton Street behind his grays, looking neither to the right nor left. [9]
In our minds we were both looking at those miserable scenes on the 'Fulvia', when Madras sought to adjust the accounts of life and sorely muddled them. [11]
Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. [6]
An hour ago we saw the Falls of the Rhone, a prodigiously rough and dangerous looking place; shipped a little water but came to no harm. [5]
Having done this, we moved away to other parts of the cemetery, looking at the tombstones, many of which told sad tales enough of those who died far away from home and friends. [11]
In this connection we can safely say, also, that the new crop of Circassians is looking extremely well. [5]
He made his way to the door and saw the people in the choir room, standing silently, in groups, looking toward him. [9]
But in the way of looking in at shop windows I did a very large business. [6]
There's a weak way of looking at it, and a strong way. [9]
Did y' ever watch her at meetin' playing with posies and looking round all the time of the long prayer? [6]
But really he wasn't looking as delicate as he was feeling. [5]
But as it was, in the upper room where Louise sat all day looking out over the prairie, and on the prairie where business carried Orlando from ranch to ranch on this perfect day, no recreant thought or feeling existed. [11]
One day I was up among the rocks, looking for a strayed horse. [11]
Near as he was to her now, he very often saw her in his mind's eye as she passed over Ridley Common, looking towards him, her eyes shaded by her hand. [11]
In the distance was the ancient, but still almost perfect Temple of Theseus, and close by, looking to the west, was the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen. [5]
And then she was standing beside me, looking up into my face. [9]
Poor Leos, who was somewhere in the crowd, looking as attentively as if he was searching for a needle in a haystack; here is stood, wondering to himself why Ambulinia was not there. [5]
Presently the Governor was seated, and he said, looking round, "Monsieur Doltaire--he is not here? [11]
Mr Swiveller, who was not in the secret, was a little surprised to hear a suppressed scream, and, looking round, to see Mrs Quilp following him with a sudden jerk; but he did not remark on these appearances, and soon forgot them. [12]
Her sleeping-place, happily, was not far from a window looking to the west, so that she was able to refresh her brain after the bewildering impressions which had crowded on her in the inner rooms. [10]
He knew there was no help for him, and that he was looking his last upon earthly things, but "he would not sit. [5]
Louis the Fourteenth was looking out, one day, from, a window of his palace of Saint-Germain. [6]
William Wetherell, who was looking out of the window, drew his breath, and even Jethro drew back with an exclamation at the change wrought in her. [9]
He knew he was looking into her soul. [13]
I saw he was looking at the dim photograph of memory, and turned from him to Iris. [6]
Now, however, he was looking at me earnestly. [11]
I see he was looking at it, too. [5]
But Mr. Cooke was looking a trifle bewildered. [9]
The sombre daylight was drawing to an early close as the two stood looking out of the sitting-room window. [9]
While the Emperor was dining, Valuev, looking out of the window, said: "The people are still hoping to see Your Majesty again. [2]
She fancied she was deliberating, looking at life with great prudence. [4]
The advanced guard was composed of legions of cavalry, heavily armed, looking like moving masses of polished steel. [4]
Cambyses' first glance was bestowed on Nitetis; she sat by him in all the splendor and dignity of a queen, but looking very, very pale in her new purple robes. [10]

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