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Barton turned away, his eyes falling upon Rankin beside his horse.
He turned and looked at them with clear blue eyes, immaculate eyes.
A shine in her eyes suddenly became tears and she turned back to her husband again.
A tall lady, with a ruffled collar very low on her bosom, turned insolent green eyes upon him.
The authors set about answering this fundamental question through a detailed investigation of the patient's ability, tactually, ( 1 ) to perceive figure and ( 2 ) to locate objects in space, with his eyes closed ( or turned away from the object concerned ).
He set out on his 700-mile return journey with five families of discontented and disappointed Swiss who turned their eyes toward the United States.
As the bus turned into the main highway and headed toward Hanover I settled back in my seat and closed my eyes, thinking over the events of the past two weeks, trying to put the pieces in order.
When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.
Alec turned him over and discovered a round, lumpy face with narrow, slanting eyes -- a primitive Tartar face from Russia or the Balkans.
Their eyes turned cold and accusing, even Via's.
Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.
They turned their eyes towards King Geirröth, who was reigning in the stead of his late father, King Hrauthung.
Earlier than any other German prince or any other member of the Hohenzollern line including even his younger brother Albert, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, he turned his eyes and heart to the new faith proceeding from Wittenberg.
Clerical and secular scholars from Europe turned their eyes to Iberian Peninsula as the arts and sciences prospered in an early Spanish " renaissance " under the patronage of Alfonso X, who was continuing the tradition of ( relatively ) enlightened and tolerant convivencia established by the Muslim emirate several centuries earlier.
Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: " and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea ; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed.
The eyes of David, with a warning glare, were turned towards Rome.
He supplied his countrymen with romantic tragedies at the very moment when all eyes were turned to the stage, and when the old-fashioned pieces were felt to be inadequate.
Information enters the eyes in one direction ( input ), and is then turned into an image by the brain that can be interpreted and recognized as a perception ( output ).
The jaundiced eyes of the famine-wasted wretches around them were instantly turned towards the poor girls, who appeared to thrive so well whilst others were famishing.
After the jumper has slipped or turned into the wind, they assume a prepare to land attitude by keeping the feet and knees together, knees slightly bent, elbows tight into the sides, chin on the chest and eyes open.
He turned Shearer down flat, reportedly calling her a " dog ", and criticized her crossed eyes and stubby legs.
Judge Dan Haywood ( Spencer Tracy ), the chief justice in the case, attempts to understand how defendant Ernst Janning ( Burt Lancaster ) could have passed sentences resulting in genocide, and by extension how the German people could have turned blind eyes and deaf ears to the Holocaust.
When he came to attack her, she turned on the fire torch and smudged ashes in the man's eyes.

turned and toward
He turned and raced across the parade ground toward the rock house.
He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.
Brassnose turned a stricken face toward me and said brokenly, `` Sommers, you meddling Yank, you're a fool!!
He looked out through windowpanes turned a faint violet by sun and weather, looked out at King's Bridge toward Westchester.
He turned slowly and began to crawl back up the bank toward the rampart.
She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.
Then Angelina turned and with an easy grace walked toward the kitchen.
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.
Jones relented, he did not order his men to apply the torch -- the drove of livestock was driven up the valley, via Beverly, and across the mountains to feed and serve the Confederate army, while Jones and his raiders turned toward Buckhannon to join forces with Imboden.
After finding that its coasts led nowhere, however, he turned north again, toward the main, ice-filled passageway -- and the crew, at first uneasy, then frightened, rebelled.
He turned, then, to look toward the lighted Boulevard, and saw Rourke's tall, emaciated figure come out of the lounge and hurriedly start to angle across the street toward the opposite side.
Then, as he turned toward the telephone, it rang shrilly to shatter the stillness in the room and he reached for it eagerly.
Elaine turned and started toward the companionway.
That meeting produced the `` spirit of Camp David '' -- a spirit, it later turned out, that masked a basic misunderstanding about progress toward a Berlin settlement.
He bellowed orders and watched the alert response of some of his men and watched, too, the way a dozen or more turned their heads questioningly toward the shackled figure as though for further instruction.
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.
She turned and began to walk toward the house.
It is explained that those souls that have turned toward God will experience gladness, while those who have lived in error will become aware of the opportunities they have lost.
Hanjour's brother later explained that, frustrated at not finding a job, Hanjour " increasingly turned his attention toward religious texts and cassette tapes of militant Islamic preachers ".
Although he assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Billy ( as he was known then ) turned fifteen that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.

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