She looked more like twenty-five or six.

Delphine stood like stone, her eyes alive with hate as she looked down at the sheeted corpse.

The countryside looked like a beautiful open park with gentle slopes and soft gray tree-clumps.

Indeed, he looked more like a well-fleshed lay brother of the Hospice of St. Bernard.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

Repnin, who had a rather narrow face, longish nose, high forehead, and arching brows, looked like a quizzical Mephistopheles.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Or that's what it looked like at the time.

This figure looked like the slave dealer from that.

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

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

A young woman who looked like Alix, with her two children.

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.

Pat O'Dwyer looked like a heavier Jim.

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.

Now the yard looked wet and bald, the trees bare under their buds, but in a while Miss Ada's flowers would bloom like a marching parade.

The suicide attempt looked to him like an opportunity to put his theory to the test.

pioneers who looked like off-duty gardeners even at parent-teacher conferences and who never called the school principal `` Mister ''.

It was predicted that Kohnstamm-negative subjects would adhere to more liberal, concretistic reports of what the ambiguous figure `` looked like '' as reflecting their hesitancy about taking chances.

After a conversation with another man, he was able to recount practically everything that had been said but could not describe at all what the other man looked like.

I didn't see her till several days later at the wedding, and her face looked like it had never had a blemish on it.

the scene looked like a Christmas card.

The lieutenant's sparse brown hair was heavily pomaded, and as Killpath raked the comb through it, it stuck together in thatches so that it looked like umbrella ribs clinging to his pink skull.

When the UN official seal, which depicts the world, was being selected, Romy looked it over and demanded, “ where is the Philippines ?” “ It ’ s too small to include ,” explained US Senator Warren Austin, who headed the committee.

After the Virginia lead business failed, Austin looked toward the rich lead deposits in Missouri, then a part of upper Spanish Louisiana.

" He looked like a stewardess from the golden age of air travel ," said the Austin Chronicle editor.

Long-serving player Ben Austin was given a temporary Player-Manager role while the Club looked a suitable replacement.

As it looked Austin was going to fight the officers, McMahon ran into the ring to lecture Austin about why he couldn't be " physically " able to compete.

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

He looked as if he was going to keel over.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

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.

As was only natural he confided his searchings to Ann, conceding ruefully that it certainly looked as if their own Congregationalists were wrong and the Baptists right.

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

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Harry ran to the side of the car where Alfred was sitting and looked at him, begging him to speak.

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

Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.

But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.

As for rebuilding, well, that might be looked into, but there was no hurry, no hurry at all.

The window looked out on the Place Redoute -- it was the only window of the apartment that did.

His sandy hair was already beginning to thin and recede at the sides, and Abel looked quickly away.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

She felt the look and looked back because she could not help it, seeing that he was neither as old nor as thick as she had at first believed.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??