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stared and out
Frozen, they stared at it whirling down the valley, gouging and spitting out boulders and chunks of earth like a starving hound dog cracking marrowbones.
My host went over and stared out the window at his peacocks ; ;
I felt lonely and depressed as I stared out the bus window at Chicago's grim, dirty West Side.
Housewives refused to open doors for him and now people not only stared at him but began to follow him out of curiosity.
The man had lost one of his masking contact lenses, and the eye stared out a total blue so dark as to be almost black.
Judge Horton stared, the prosecutors seethed, and her companion Victoria Price, brought out for Bates to identify, glared.
He stared out the window for the longest time.
He stared at some other woman ( and attempted to flirt with her ) while eating the sandwich, and his friend yanked it out of his hands in disgust, cursed him and left.
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel
I could ... make out many more details ... Those huge lidless eyes which stared in hate at me, the jointed tendrils which seemed to twist from the head in cosmic rhythms, the ten legs, covered with black shining tentacles and folded into the pallid underbody, and the semi-circular ridged wings covered with triangular scales ...
Stocky & truculent, he stared menacingly out of his cage, was characterized by Frank Buck as " the most ferocious, most terrifying and most dangerous of all living creatures.
She stared at him blankly in death, and, unnerved, he blindfolded her and colored out the eyes of all the portraits.
are currently writing their sophomore release " Stare or be stared at " due to come out through Epitaph Records 2013
" In another version, Emmett stared out at the rainy evening and thought, " I wish I was in Dixie.

stared and .
He wiped his lips with a sleeve, then stared at Clayton in a childish kind of wonder.
`` That'll be a pleasure to see '', the big black murmured as he stared down the barrel of his rifle.
They stared at him.
Lips pursed mournfully, he stared down at its crazily sagging left side.
The tall sunburnt rustler-hunter stared in amazement.
Jess stared at him without answering and let his hands fall to his sides.
White-shirted and conservatively-cravated drivers stared conspicuously toward the eastern horizon and past my supplicating and accusing gaze.
He stared at the dipper, turning it over and over in his wide, calloused hands.
Anyway, he doesn't deserve to lie there in the sun and be stared at.
He stared at the shining, shining circles of hairs and heard the voice of his partner through trees, `` Don't do that, fella.
Some of the ruddiness was gone from his face and he stared at Ramey.
He stared stonily at the floor.
Guests stared with horror at Madame Lalaurie and made speedy departures.
Ernie stared at the man.
Idje still stared over our shoulders at the horizon.
If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.
Certain this menace was only imaginary, he yet stared in fascinated horror, his hand sticky against the stock of his weapon.
Lawrence stared a minute at the lighted ribbon of traffic, hoping that a clue to his dislike of the Vice President would appear.
Wilson stared at her.
He stared at the far morning, expecting a pendulum to swing across the horizon.
He stared at it, amazed, alarmed.
Now, Adam, in the gray light of afternoon, stared across at the hut opposite his tent, and thought of Simms Purdew lying in there in the gloom, snoring on his bunk, with the fumes of whisky choking the air.
Adam stared at the door and remembered that Simms Purdew had been awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Antietam.

out and window
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.
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
Dandy, curiosity overcoming his apprehensions, peered out at the doctor from the window of the vehicle.
Mrs. Victor Dominique, socially prominent and a neighbor of the Lalauries, chanced to glance out of her parlor window at dusk one evening and beheld an amazing sight.
Every day, when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stretch out on the window seat near him, like a perfect gentleman, and stare thoughtfully out the window, or he would take a little nap himself.
We went out of the office and down the hall to a window where documents and more officials awaited us, the rest of the office personnel hot upon our heels.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.
I sat down to wait, and I watched Tessie Alpert, who hadn't moved or said a word but kept staring out of the window.
Once, sitting at the front window in his parents' room, he saw Kate come out of her house.
Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.
The window looked out on the Place Redoute -- it was the only window of the apartment that did.
His worries harried him up out of bed, and he lighted a cigarette and went to the window.
a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.
When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.
After Mr. Jack drove away, Winston went on looking out the window.
I opened the window and threw the radish out ''.

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