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He turned and looked around at the lobby as though seeing things he hadn't before noticed.
He looked out through windowpanes turned a faint violet by sun and weather, looked out at King's Bridge toward Westchester.
Then the man he saved turned and looked squarely into the truck driver's face, without saying a word.
Yet she did not hesitate and only turned slightly, her neck tall as she looked in his direction, and continued on her way toward the end of the camp.
Jim turned back from the stairway and looked at her.
I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.
When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.
Zogu, however, quickly turned his back on Belgrade and looked instead to Benito Mussolini's Italy for patronage.
Having looked around in vain for the five members and commenting " I see the birds have flown ", Charles turned to Lenthall, who stood below and demanded of him whether any of those persons were in the House, whether he saw any of them and where they were.
: I turned and looked the other way
Both he and the other agents reported that Dillinger turned his head and looked directly at the agent as he walked by, glanced across the street, then moved ahead of his female companions, reached into his pocket but failed to extract his gun, and ran into a nearby alley.
[...] The taberna keeper's little lad came round to collect our plates, and when he turned and saw he, for just a second he looked -- scared.
President Kennedy may have initially looked to a strong Secretary of State to take charge of foreign policy-making, but turned to other strategies when it became apparent that the Department of State did not have sufficient authority over other departments.
After climbing to the summit (" as far as an arrow could shoot in one pull "), Baucis and Philemon looked back on their town and saw that it had been destroyed by a flood and that Zeus had turned their cottage into an ornate temple.
Despite failing to qualify for the Champions League, Rosenborg had enjoyed another great season and it looked like Hareide's beginning reforms were paying off, but 2003 turned out to be his one and only season at the club as he accepted an offer to lead the Norwegian national team in December of that year.
After the fasse was turned up, and the talliere and croupiere had looked round the cards on the table, and taken advantage of the money laid on them, the former proceeded with his deal ; and the next card appearing, whether the king, queen, ace, or whatever it might be, won for the player, the latter might receive it, or making paroli, as before said, go on to sept-et-le-va.
On January 9 he recorded " Our path to-day was sometimes along the edge of a low cliff, sometimes along the beach, till we approached Oamaru point, where it turned inland, and crossed a low range of hills, from which we looked over an extensive plain ...
Worse still, citizens eager to cross the river and unwary children skating and playing too far from the riverbank lost their lives when ice turned out to be thinner than it looked.
Asked about the unfavourable comments by other aristocrats when he turned the family home into a safari park, the 13th Duke said, " I do not relish the scorn of the peerage, but it is better to be looked down on than overlooked.
Climbing Devils Tower behind Jillian and faltering, Neary exhorts Jillian to keep moving and not to look back, similar to Lot's wife who looked back at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt.
Pressing records turned out to be a simple matter ; " I just looked in the phone book under record pressing plants and there was one there ", Ginn recalled, " and so I just took it to them and I knew about printing because I had always done catalogs.
In addition to his development plans, he looked to quickly modernize his military, and turned first to the US.
" Pitt wished for Canning to enter Addington's government, a move which Canning looked on as a horrible dilemma but in the end he turned the offer down.

turned and at
He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.
Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;
The haughty white girl turned to a distinguished, hawk-faced man standing at her side and murmured: `` Look at your watch, Col. Garvier.
I turned to look at the lubra.
As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.
The dreary camp at Valley Forge was turned into an arena of rejoicing.
From an exercise involving merely raucous, rough-and-tumble comedy, in his hands the performance turned into a revel of wit and word play, indecent at times, but always learned, pointed, and carefully aimed at some individuals present, and at the whole assembly.
They turned at the bottom of Kate's steps and moved off in the direction of the park.
Smiling at his quixotic thoughts, Warren turned back from the opening and lit a cigarette before sitting down.
Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.
Plunking themselves down on the front bench, they turned to smirk at those around them.
Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.
She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.
Now Abel turned his head to look at his brother.
There the bus turned right along the Bosphorus, past ocean liners at anchor, to Galata Bridge over the entrance to the Golden Horn, a brown sweep of water that empties into the Bosphorus.
Outside I walked past the entrance to St. Sophia, turned left at the end of it, and continued toward a gate in the wall ahead.
He piled everything neatly in a corner of the cellar and turned to stare at the blank stone wall.

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