They looked up in surprise as Powers came in.

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

Benson looked up and saw Ramey's long head tilt forward to rub his chin on the stiff edge of the overall bib.

But Keith looked down more than up.

Waddell had looked the man over, trying to size him up.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.

He looked up and grinned.

She looked up and saw that, without knowing it, Mrs. Coolidge was holding it aloft.

He looked at her as she spoke, then got up as she was speaking still, and, simply and wordlessly, walked out.

At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.

Andrei glanced up over the top of the paper and looked into the mustached, homely face of Sergeant Styka.

Sometimes he didn't seem to because he hid them so well he couldn't find them himself or because he looked and didn't find anything and figured he hadn't hid one after all or had drunk it up.

Then he looked at his finger, at the wrinkled, heavy knuckle and the thick nail he used like a knife to pry up, slit, and open.

When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

Perhaps it was his misfortune, or good fortune, whichever way one looked at it, to belong to the former group, and he was struggling unconsciously to build up pressure in a world which demanded none, which was positively antagonistic to it.

the doors of the D train slid shut, and as I dropped into a seat and, exhaling, looked up across the aisle, the whole aviary in my head burst into song.

Each form represented by the dictionary is looked up in the text-form list.

Each dictionary form is looked up in the text-form list by the same method used to look up a new text occurrence in the form list during text reading.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

Plus flawless skin, smooth brow and cheeks, lips that looked as if you could get a shock from them.

His brown face looked gray from dirt streaks where his hand had come off the dusty pavement and rubbed across it.

But it could also be looked at from the other end of the spectrum.

I looked from her to him.

Wilson came by train from Birmingham and looked the city over ; ;

This figure looked like the slave dealer from that.

But it also looked like a toad, hopping away from the light.

Wherever you looked, you saw Committeemen running across the meadows, some away from the road, some toward it, some parallel to it ; ;

She looked at the girl speculatively from eyes which had paled with the years ; ;

Everywhere else his ideas lay or hung in visible form: his models, drawings, ten-foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days, and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac.

The shelves looked emptier than when Miss Celie had shown her the storeroom, and since the men from the Commissary had called ; ;

The price tag hung from the belt and he pulled it off as he entered the chartroom and looked at it curiously.

The guy is off his rocker, Haney thought to himself, and looked away from those eyes.

They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.

As a short, possibly not the best method, I looked up `` Word '' in the Concordance and noted that the Bible claims from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 to be God's personal message to man.

but never from Mr. Nixon, who looked on reporters with suspicion and distrust.

We went into Mrs. Monmouth's library, which had low bookshelves all along the walls, and above them a Modigliani portrait, a Jackson Pollock twelve feet long, and a gorgeous Miro with a yellow background, that looked like an inscription from a Martian tomb.

Jim turned back from the stairway and looked at her.

In the light from the bedside table his father looked so worried that the promise spilled out.

Though that may be unfair since Ben Cooper, John's first son, came along early in 1938, the cutest baby you ever saw and a blessing that he looked all Cooper from fontanel to pink toes, nary a trace of Edythe.

He looked very different from Johnnie -- in fact, he looked sort of like me.

When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.