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looked and out
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
Pausing in the outside door to glance behind him, Pat looked his unspoken warning and stepped out.
Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.
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 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.
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.
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.
He looked out of the tent at the company street.
The window looked out on the Place Redoute -- it was the only window of the apartment that did.
He looked around the room and then called out: `` Come here, quick ''??
He looked out through windowpanes turned a faint violet by sun and weather, looked out at King's Bridge toward Westchester.
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.
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??
She looked out at the corn field, the great green deep acres of it rolled out like the sea in the field beyond the whitewashed fence bordering the grounds.
He filled a real need, showing society what it looked like, turning it inside out, portraying its wars and its leaders, its ugliness and its beauties, reflecting its profound religious impulses.
In the light from the bedside table his father looked so worried that the promise spilled out.
`` Well then, I'll get out '' -- But she looked uncertain.

looked and over
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He looked down over the banister at the hotel desk, with the telephone and pen set.
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.

looked and expanse
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.
It's said that it was when Swift looked across the expanse of Lough Ennell one day and saw the tiny human figures on the opposite shore of the lake that he conceived the idea of the Lilliputians featured in Gulliver's Travels.

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