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was and looking
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.
Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.
Up to now, Gorton had been looking for trouble, and now that he was trying to get away from it, trouble started looking for him.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.
Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.
Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.
When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.
Pa was on his side, looking at me, his eyes winking, the hand that had hit me a fist in the pillow.
Howard ( the thick middle-aged man ) was looking at her.
She was looking out at the garden.
Miss Ada was looking fine ; ;
The moonlit night was made for romance, and he had been looking at her soulfully for some time.
but a few seconds later she was standing directly across the room from me, looking me in the eyes and saying in a scathingly condemnatory tone, `` Your father despises you ''!!
Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.
and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.
It was nothing that he said or did, but it seemed so natural to her that she should be working for him, looking forward to his eventual proposal.

was and certain
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
In certain respects, their task was incomparably greater than ours today, for there was nobody before them to show them the way.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.
The reaction of certain City Council members to California's newest anti-secrecy laws was as dismaying as it was disappointing.
The impression was unmistakable that, whatever one may choose to call it, natural law is a functioning generality with a certain objective existence.
The stimulus from the confrontation of philosophical systems involving certain differences was undeniable.
His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.
And I was certain he would refuse ''.
There a certain farmhouse was a station for the Sons of Liberty.
David Cortlandt had certain psychic intuitions that this rebellion was not wholly what it appeared on the surface.
But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.
It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

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