It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.

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

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.

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.

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

It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.

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 ''.

Potemkin -- as King Stanislas knew, and presently informed Littlepage -- looked on the Cossacks as geopolitical tools.

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.

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.

Boxell looked at Lawrence with a searching glance, the kind that a prosecuting attorney would give a man on trial.

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

Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The policeman walked on, but he looked back once.

They looked as if they had been fed on vinegar and shavings.

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

She must have looked temptingly pretty to the dean as he put the crown on her head.

`` Of course it looked like an accident.

Of course, Church officials were enraged, and, for a time, it looked as though Charles might even be excommunicated for his actions.

Between the late 1920s and the 1950s, he traveled across the region, educating local people about what meteorites looked like and what to do if they thought they had found one, for example, in the course of clearing a field.

Poisson studied Fresnel's theory in detail and of course looked for a way to prove it wrong being a supporter of the particle-theory of light.

It is then revealed that the monk also looked like Plug and claimed that the entire class needed a makeover ' accept Plug, of course '.

While Gaye wasn't required to later attend Gordy's artist development course, he took advice on performing with his eyes open rather closed after Maxine Powell told him that it " looked like was sleeping when was performing.

The hearings also looked into the capability of the B-36, the cancellation of the super-carrier, and JCS procedures on weapon development, and ultimately examined the whole course of unification.

And, of course, he hasn't looked back since.

He looked at course options with a wider topic area, and was enthused by PhD adviser Barry Saltzman about climate modelling and research.

The man was sure he saw someone who looked like Thompson heading in the direction of the track which led to the golf course.

I myself at the time had almost gave up the CC method as not tractable and, of course, I never looked into the quantum chemistry journals.

Henry M. Levin, a professor of higher education at Teachers College at Columbia University, called its business degree an " MBA Lite ," saying " I ’ ve looked at course materials.

When asked why the magician looked so much like himself, he replied, " Well, of course he did.

While the doctrine of the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, in the form in which it is upheld today in the Roman Catholic Church, developed over the course of centuries often in reaction to challenges made against exercises of authority by popes, writers both of East and West declare that from a very early period the Church of Rome was looked to as the centre of reference for the whole Church.

They are both independent, vivacious, imaginative young women with troubled childhoods, educated in religious establishments and looked down on by the upper classes — and, of course, they both marry Mr Rochester.

At half-time it looked as if Kerry were on course for the ultimate victory.

By the middle of the 1998 – 99 season Stoke looked to be well on course for automatic promotion back to Division One.

By February 2002 Hull City looked well on course for automatic promotion from Division Three.

During the course of the HZ series, equipment levels were upgraded in 1978 effectively to match improvements in the opposition Ford Falcon range, but the life of the Kingswood looked set to end following Holden's release of the VB Commodore range of sedans and wagons in November 1978.

Nothing in the new understanding alters of course the need for continuing awareness of the dangers in the narrow perspective-of ' serious risks of unresolved countertransference difficulties being acted out within what is meant to be a therapeutic relationship '; but ' from that point on, transference and counter-transference were looked upon as an inseparable couple ..." total situation "'.

Neither our word nor our intentions are trusted in that part of the globe ... We have fed such countries as Burma on political formulae until they are sick at the very sight and sound of a formula, which has come, as far as my experience shows, to be looked upon as a very British means of avoiding a definite course of action.

Considering the robust phylogeny of the cockatoos now established, a comparison of characters gained and lost during the evolution of cockatoos suggests that the Gang-gang Cockatoo-while of course much changed and adapted during the perhaps 20 million years since its last common ancestor with any other living species lived-is probably still very similar in overall appearance to how the earliest cockatoos would have looked, and certainly the most primitive-looking of the species alive today.

To the British and the feuding politicians alike, this liability was looked upon as an asset ; he was considered to be unbiased toward any of the parties, except of course Britain.

When we looked at the sky again, the Forts, still relentlessly following their course, were mere silvery dots in the distance.