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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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.

I looked with revulsion at the legs.

He turned and looked at them with clear blue eyes, immaculate eyes.

Shaffner looked at him, altogether without guile, and shrugged his shoulders, making a little spreading gesture with his two hands.

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.

I looked unceasingly With my cold mind and with my burning heart ''.

As they looked with nostalgia to a society which had been swept away, they were probably no more than half-conscious that they painted in colors which had never existed.

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.

He looked disapprovingly at an ash tray piled high with cigarette stubs, shook his head, and moved his hand back and forth in a strong negative gesture.

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.

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.

He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.

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.

He looked at the lined face with vague interest ; ;

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

The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.

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

The creature in feathers looked around and David saw the mad eyes, glazed with an insane fear.

She looked at the girl speculatively from eyes which had paled with the years ; ;

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.

We had looked forward to what we hoped to be our first informal meeting with a number of Moscow's artists.

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.