The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

Plus flawless skin, smooth brow and cheeks, lips that looked as if you could get a shock from them.

He looked as if he was going to keel over.

It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.

As was only natural he confided his searchings to Ann, conceding ruefully that it certainly looked as if their own Congregationalists were wrong and the Baptists right.

Still, he had liked the way she had looked, in a fresh, neat cotton dress -- citron yellow, if he remembered.

Our respective families looked as if they had quadrupled.

She it was who had looked to see if I was wearing shoes upon learning that I couldn't drive.

They looked as if they had been fed on vinegar and shavings.

And if by some wild chance Mahzeer was the man, he wouldn't dare try anything now -- not after Docherty had looked in on the two of them to see that all was well.

He looked up with bloodshot eyes and beheld the stranger sitting across the table, smiling a secret smile at him, as if they were fellow conspirators.

yet if you looked closely you'd see that his eyes did not pick up the smile on his lips.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

She looked crestfallen, as if he had somehow disappointed the whole human race.

He wondered if he might bag a tourist, but they looked frightened of him.

She looked as if she were accusing me of some fraud.

The saints, although they would have had to have been hundreds of years old, looked as if they had just died.

It was as if he feared that if he looked upon them they might vanish like the gossamer gold of the leprechaun.

The National network might have looked like this by the 1980s if the lines not proposed for development in Beeching II had closed

For example, according to Erewhonian law, offenders are treated as if they were ill whilst ill people are looked upon as criminals.

" Groucho replied, " Sir, if my wife looked like that, I wouldn't need any help thinking of insults!

For a while it looked as if a new civil war would begin as the New Model Army split into factions.

For if this argument works, then any property that has changed from the last time we looked at a thing would mean that the thing does not exist anymore, and there is a new thing in its place.

The next Test match, at Edgbaston, looked almost as hopeless, if not hapless, from England's point of view.

The contest was ultimately decided by a coin toss, with Nelson unseating the incumbent as national and local media looked on.

It at first looked as though he would run unopposed ; however, at the last minute local lawyer Nelson D. Mills publicly accused Rutherford of being not a true independent, but a dyed-in-the-wool Haultain supporter, and announced that he would run against him.

When series originator and host Joel Hodgson decided to leave the show half-way through the fifth season, he chose Nelson as his replacement — reportedly because he thought Nelson was a natural leader, a gifted comedian as well as a gifted muse, and also that Nelson simply looked good standing next to the show's puppets.

Series creator Joel Hodgson reportedly chose Nelson personally as his replacement, on the grounds that Nelson was a natural leader, a gifted comic and that he simply looked good standing next to the show's puppets.

Nelson entered the ring for his final throw and unleashed what looked to be a gold medal winning 70 foot throw, but fouled by stepping on the line to the left front of the circle.

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.

They were far off and looked tiny.

They were increasingly looked upon as a means of establishing the new rural communes as the focus of a new, constructive national effort.

One night there were some dried peas lying on our kitchen table, and these peas looked to me like a little group of atoms ; ;

I thought he would ask us to leave because Rachel and I were bare-armed, but he looked down into his beard and preceded us down the corridor.

" The students looked at the package, and were shocked.

In societies influenced by Confucianism, the farmer was considered an esteemed productive member of society, whereas merchants who made money were looked down upon.

Another group of animals discovered subsequently, whose filtering mechanism looked similar, was also included in " Bryozoa " until 1869, when the two groups were noted to be very different internally.

After Bennett's death his son took over the company, and the posters were replaced with pictures of the son ( who looked imposing and stern in contrast to his father's kindly demeanour ) with the text " Let me be your big brother.

Anthony decides to take this as a compliment: " Anthony remembered that they were white and always looked unnaturally hungry.

After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

Of course, Church officials were enraged, and, for a time, it looked as though Charles might even be excommunicated for his actions.

Chicago committed numerous critical errors and were outscored 20 – 6 in a Dodger sweep, which provided yet another sudden and stunning ending to what had once been looked at as a season of destiny.

However, wives were usually looked after with care, and bigamous men were expected to ensure that they give their first wife food, clothing, and sexual activity.

Although the very act of codification was a radical innovation, given the precedent-based design of the Roman legal system, the jurists were generally conservative, and constantly looked to past Roman practice and theory for guidance.

The Japanese destroyer commander finished with, " Yesterday I looked at myself in a mirror for a long time ; I was disagreeably surprised to see my face thin, full of wrinkles, and as old as though I were fifty.

The famous Totentanz by Bernt Notke in Lübeck ’ s Marienkirche ( destroyed during the Allied Bombing of Lübeck in World War II ) presented the dead dancers as very lively and agile, making the impression that they were actually dancing, whereas their living dancing partners looked clumsy and passive.

The English Dominicans looked for this complete unity as well, but were not so focused on ecstatic experiences.

After the first three negative calls, a caller named Julie told Plato that she looked and sounded great, and could not fathom why people were attacking her the way they were, and although they were cruel to her, she was supportive.