She looked more like twenty-five or six.

Delphine stood like stone, her eyes alive with hate as she looked down at the sheeted corpse.

The countryside looked like a beautiful open park with gentle slopes and soft gray tree-clumps.

Indeed, he looked more like a well-fleshed lay brother of the Hospice of St. Bernard.

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.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

Repnin, who had a rather narrow face, longish nose, high forehead, and arching brows, looked like a quizzical Mephistopheles.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Or that's what it looked like at the time.

This figure looked like the slave dealer from that.

But it also looked like a toad, hopping away from the light.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

A young woman who looked like Alix, with her two children.

At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.

Pat O'Dwyer looked like a heavier Jim.

Then he looked at his finger, at the wrinkled, heavy knuckle and the thick nail he used like a knife to pry up, slit, and open.

Now the yard looked wet and bald, the trees bare under their buds, but in a while Miss Ada's flowers would bloom like a marching parade.

The suicide attempt looked to him like an opportunity to put his theory to the test.

pioneers who looked like off-duty gardeners even at parent-teacher conferences and who never called the school principal `` Mister ''.

It was predicted that Kohnstamm-negative subjects would adhere to more liberal, concretistic reports of what the ambiguous figure `` looked like '' as reflecting their hesitancy about taking chances.

After a conversation with another man, he was able to recount practically everything that had been said but could not describe at all what the other man looked like.

I didn't see her till several days later at the wedding, and her face looked like it had never had a blemish on it.

the scene looked like a Christmas card.

The lieutenant's sparse brown hair was heavily pomaded, and as Killpath raked the comb through it, it stuck together in thatches so that it looked like umbrella ribs clinging to his pink skull.

On 27 February 1914, two days after his death, the Daily Graphic recalled Tenniel: " He had an influence on the political feeling of this time which is hardly measurable … While Tenniel was drawing them ( his subjects ), we always looked to the Punch cartoon to crystallize the national and international situation, and the popular feeling about it — and never looked in vain.

An advanced test was called a " Schmoo test " in which the half select currents were modified along with the time at which the sense line was tested (" strobed ") It seems the data plot looked like a cartoon character called " Schmoo " and the name stuck.

In 1908, he had four plays running simultaneously in London, and Punch published a cartoon of Shakespeare biting his fingernails nervously as he looked at the billboards.

Scully said on the audio commentary that he thought the design of Bart looked " great ", though he added that it was " slightly disturbing " to see the older versions of Homer and Marge in the episode, and joked that it is " a little bit sad to watch cartoon characters age.

A political cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly on September 1, 1864 depicting Lincoln on a tightrope, pushing a wheelbarrow and carrying two men on his back-Navy Secretary Gideon Welles and War Secretary Edwin Stanton-while John Bull, Napoleon III, Jefferson Davis, and Generals Grant, Lee and Sherman, among others, looked on.

Hosted by " Rowdy " Rudy R. Moore ( a marionette puppet of a young boy, who looked a little like Howdy Doody ), and his pet goat Gogo ( a live action nanny goat ), the show featured a variety of cartoon short subjects from Turner Entertainment's library, including pre-July 1948 Warner Bros .' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, MGM cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Droopy, and Fleischer / Famous ' Popeye the Sailor.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.

Benson looked up and saw Ramey's long head tilt forward to rub his chin on the stiff edge of the overall bib.

Ramey looked down and saw the white sneaker at the bottom of the man's tanned leg cautiously nudge a bit of folded, blood-flecked substance lying by itself on the pavement.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

One looked down on a sea of leaves, a breaking wave of flower.

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

Potemkin -- as King Stanislas knew, and presently informed Littlepage -- looked on the Cossacks as geopolitical tools.

Here in the cool darkness Mr. Podger could still feel the warmth of midday, could still see the yellow butterflies dancing over the road, could still see the friendly grin on the young, sun-browned face as the driver looked back over his shoulder for a moment before the car streaked out of sight.

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

The window looked out on the Place Redoute -- it was the only window of the apartment that did.

Her house stood on a rise of ground, and before she got into her car she looked at the houses below.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

The policeman walked on, but he looked back once.

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

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

She must have looked temptingly pretty to the dean as he put the crown on her head.