But a glance at Songau and the other women confirmed what Brassnose had blurted out.

The physician led the horses to the stable after a cursory glance at the cringing slave.

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.

These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

Yes, I went to the city, And there I did bitterly cry, Men out of touch with the earth, And with never a glance at the sky.

The trouble is that at first glance the idea looks like such a good one.

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

In Missouri ( which we are including in our general Midwest region ) you can glance into Mark Twain's birthplace at Hannibal, see the landmarks of his life and writings and visualize where Huck Finn hatched his boyish mischief.

There had been some coconut in it, for I remember my mother's taking a quick glance at a stringy bit of this nut on the cheek of one of them and then putting down her radish with a shiver.

I took another sidelong glance at the other registration card, then took the key to Unit 13 that she had given me and went down long enough to park the car.

The thin man stopped his pacing long enough to glance at the clock.

He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;

Killpath sailed the paper across the desk, but Matson didn't pick it up or even glance at it.

To be reminded of this we need only glance at the world map and note the extent to which religious divisions have compounded political ones, with a resultant fragmentation of the human race.

He knew at a glance that the biggest sandals belonged to Niobe, the neatest ones to Concetta, and the laced ones to Romeo, Concetta's idiot brother.

Spencer's potential followers were openly sullen and morose, missing muster without excuse, expressing in ominous tones their displeasure at the prisoners being kept in irons, communicating with the three by glance and signal.

Since they did not glance curiously at us once, I guessed that there was a penalty for distraction.

One of these days, I'm going to organize a gigantic exhibition that will span everything that's being painted these days, from extreme abstract expressionism to extreme photorealism, and then you'll be able to see at a glance how much artists have in common with each other.

I saw it all at a glance.

Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.

They ignored the ladder down to the planet surface and, with only a glance at the seismological gauge to judge surface resistance, dropped to the ground.

Early computers permitted only a few letters or digits in the name of a file, but modern computers allow long names ( some up to 255 characters ) containing almost any combination of unicode letters or unicode digits, making it easier to understand the purpose of a file at a glance.

Men, however, may stare at Western women in such countries who might get in trouble if returning the glance.

The gamemaster must also keep hard copies of all the players ' characters himself, since he can not glance at them as he would in a normal game.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

And a gray-haired man whose glance -- direct, lifelike, and mildly accusing -- was contradicted by the gilt and black frame.

From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

Only then, when his glance focused on the divan and saw that it was empty, did he remember his earlier problem.

The game was still tightly contested as it entered its final 15 minutes, but then Peters swung over a curling cross from the left flank and Hurst, anticipating his clubmate's thinking, got in front of his marker to glance a near post header past the Argentine keeper.

Upon arrival at the Central Station: " the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.

Even such a question as to whether Khayyam was pro-or anti-alcohol gives rise to more discussion than might at first glance have seemed plausible.

Characteristics are written down using the " Universal Personality Profile " code ( or UPP ) which was a series of hexadecimal numbers used as a shorthand way of gauging a character's primary characteristics at a glance, with numbers 0 to 9, and the letters A thru F used for 10 and above ( A = 10, B = 11, C = 12 and so on ).

It was said to be impossible to give even a hurried glance at everything in less than a week.

The Basilisk, the venomous " king of serpents " with the glance that kills, was hatched by a serpent, Pliny the Elder and others thought, from the egg of a cock.

The upward glance when the heart was bitten again by the fangs of emotion, the hysterical joy of the Latin nature when in high spirits, all these phrases were delineated by this artist in a way that moved and thrilled.

The interesting office of the god of love is held by Kamadeva, also called Ananga, the bodyless, because, as the scriptures relate, having once tried by the power of his mischievous arrow to make Siva fall in love with Parvati, whilst he was engaged in devotional practices, the urchin was reduced to ashes by a glance of the angry god.

In December 1953, Asimov was thumbing through a copy of the March 28, 1932 issue of Time when he noticed what looked at first glance like a drawing of the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion.

Wolf had scornfully rejected the libretto to Der Corregidor when it was first presented to him in 1890, but his determination to compose an opera blinded him to its faults upon second glance.

The Tzemach Tzedek cites a question asked by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk: At first glance, this appears to have been mainly a test of Isaac, for he was the one to be giving up his life al kiddush Hashem ( in order to sanctify God ’ s Name ).

Formerly, a glance at a U. S. stock symbol and its appended codes would allow an investor to determine where a stock trades ; however in July 2007, the SEC approved a rule change allowing companies moving from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq to retain their three letter symbols ; DirecTV was one of the first companies to make this move.

After several km, the driver realized something was wrong as cars coming in the opposite direction flashed their headlights at him ; a glance in his mirrors showed white smoke coming out from under his cab.

Brettonais from the village of Plouha ..." Wretched though she was, some of the mystery of that mysterious land still clung to her ... the gravity of her glance, the innocence and primitive mind ... there were dark corners of Celtic brooding ... a little scarecrow.