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.

As he looked up from picking at a leg ulcer, he saw a marine in the jungle across the clearing.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.