He looked down at his big hands and slowly flexed his long fingers.

With this realization, sometimes, he saw himself as he looked down.

Ramey looked down and saw the white sneaker at the bottom of the man's tanned leg cautiously nudge a bit of folded, blood-flecked substance lying by itself on the pavement.

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.

But Keith looked down more than 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.

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

Cappy looked down at his wide hands, and did not reply.

She looked down at her hands, too.

One looked down on a sea of leaves, a breaking wave of flower.

Mrs. Coolidge looked down, saw Mama's horrified expression and quickly let the whole thing fall to the floor.

The sculptor looked at him, let the color drain out of his face, grinned, and looked down into his drink, a bad Martini made with raw Italian gin.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

The children looked at each other and sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably than ever.

Mr. Gorboduc looked down.

After a week of precarious uphill landings and downwind takeoffs, Fogg one day looked down at the shattered yellow wreckage of an Army plane strewn across snow-covered Towne field.

In the middle of the party Chandler looked up to see four smiling faces bearing down upon him, each beaming above the biggest, greenest shamrock he had ever seen.

Maude suddenly looked quite capable of pouring it down her throat.

He looked up and down the street.

It was enough for people to know that at one time he had looked down the street at the fleshy suppleness of a woman he had consumed -- watching her become thinner and thinner in the distance, as thin as the seams on her stockings, and still thinner.

Henrietta looked down at her bouquet, still lively with its color and scent, and set her feet on their journey's way again, leaving the village street and crossing the first field, Folly dancing ahead of her.

I swallowed hard and looked down at my feet plodding along beside Rachel.

I thought he would ask us to leave because Rachel and I were bare-armed, but he looked down into his beard and preceded us down the corridor.

He looked over his shoulder at the thin dotting of pursuers.

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

He looked as if he was going to keel over.

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

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Here in the cool darkness Mr. Podger could still feel the warmth of midday, could still see the yellow butterflies dancing over the road, could still see the friendly grin on the young, sun-browned face as the driver looked back over his shoulder for a moment before the car streaked out of sight.

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

During the next weeks he looked over the situation.

Then Wilson looked over the church and studied its condition.

The Presiding Elder looked him over rather carefully.

He looked over at him, lying there, asleep, and he felt a wave of revulsion.

He stopped stirring and looked over his shoulder.

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

He looked out over the expanse of the compound.

She looked at him impudently over the corner of the paper.

I looked over their faces and felt a twinge: they all looked so much more knowing than I.

His father looked him over closely.

I looked back over my shoulder while I went to join him ; ;

But while she is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal.

More and more, these days, she'd been driving that pretty little mare that looked like her, over to Tillie's and Nick's -- his own old square frame box on posts, chickens and cats and pups under the house, everybody friendly inside, making a to-do over the babies dressed like dollies.