[permalink] [id link]
It looked to me as if the whole town would break out into a riot ... Then suddenly I heard a heavy thump, and as if by magic the whole crowd dispersed in every direction ... One of the regular patrons had felled one of the noisiest rioters .... And it was the effect of this which had scattered everybody so suddenly.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
looked and me
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??
About halfway through the second bottle, Charlie looked at me across Pops, who was sitting between us and asked `` Now ''??
One night there were some dried peas lying on our kitchen table, and these peas looked to me like a little group of atoms ; ;
It looked to me as though he had everything an artist could want, joy in his work, standing in the profession, a large and steady income.
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.
For days, he told me he has looked at the rushes and felt he was failing ... the things did not click as it should.
There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.
I looked for an agent and she sent me away three times because I was a little girl but I kept coming back.
In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in Cigar Aficionado magazine, Falk said " One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, ' Young man, why are you always late?
Lang later recounted how humbled Orbison had been by the show of support from so many talented and busy musicians: " Roy looked at all of us and said, ' If there is anything I can ever do for you, please call on me.
I must have shown that I was not only puzzled but crestfallen, at this exception to what looked like a very pretty rule of stellar characteristics ; but Pickering smiled upon me, and said: " It is just these exceptions that lead to an advance in our knowledge ", and so the white dwarfs entered the realm of study!
looked and if
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
0.102 seconds.