"Searchingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dorothy of this conversation was a greater kindness than ever on the part of Molly's people; who now seemed to take her into their hearts as if she were of kin to them. She often found them looking at her searchingly, trying to trace that "likeness" which one of them had discovered. But no word of what was in their minds was said to her. She was merely invited to call Mrs. Hungerford "Aunt" as she was ...
— Dorothy's Travels • Evelyn Raymond
... Indeed, there was something even tender in her voice as she spoke to Hannah and inquired after her father. Then, turning to Grey, she laid one hand on his head, and taking his chin in the other, looked searchingly in ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... in order for you in no time! No? Are the men going out on a strike, then? or is your great-grandma down with the measles? Then, for Heaven's sake, why such a doleful expression? It is enough to give one the blues to look at you!" and he re-crossed his legs and looked searchingly ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth
... knitting. She looked searchingly into her husband's face. She was very far from indifferent to his ...
— The Zeppelin's Passenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... its curling smoke played lightly about his nostrils. His jaw fell. His eyes protruded. He looked for a long moment like one of those deep-sea fishes concerning which the recent lecturer had spoken so searchingly. Then with the cry of a stricken animal, he bounded from his seat and fled ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... glanced at her swiftly for a second, and then, with perfect good breeding, fixed his eyes on the ground. She put out towards him her hand, covered with a corner of her face-veil, and he took it, pressed it twice, and dropping it turned towards Willems. She looked at the two men searchingly, then backed away and seemed to melt suddenly ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... start and look at her searchingly. She could not have stopped and exchanged a word with him if her life had depended upon it. She hurried past him with desperate haste, praying that he might not hear the beating ...
— Mischievous Maid Faynie • Laura Jean Libbey
... her with his old extravagant demonstrations of affection and delight, and when she looked searchingly into her mother's face she was met with a beaming smile. There was no trace of the ordeal she had faced alone, and Hansie's anxious heart ...
— The Petticoat Commando - Boer Women in Secret Service • Johanna Brandt
... go, and would give me her blessing, but she herself would die of grief. That is what I fear. To go away together," she said dreamily, "and what then?" She looked up at him searchingly. ...
— The Precipice • Ivan Goncharov
... on ordinary subjects, till at last Erminie folds her arms, looks him searchingly up and down, and ...
— When the Birds Begin to Sing • Winifred Graham
... Oh, you found him here in this condition! Curious!" Over his shoulder he spoke to the butler: "Mullins, you had better call the guard." He picked up the slender weapon that lay beside Samoval. "A duelling sword!" Then he looked searchingly about him until his eyes caught the gleam of the other blade near the wall, where himself he had dropped it. "Ah!" he said, and went to pick it up. "Very odd!" He looked up at the balcony, over the parapet of which his ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... at her feet as she guiltily remembered a certain pair of new shoes which she was wearing and saw the sharp, black eyes fixed searchingly upon them. ...
— The Lilac Lady • Ruth Alberta Brown
... her arms, while we sat silent, rocking, rocking, until long, long after I had fallen asleep. And once, at the end of a sweet, strange hour, making believe to play, she gently pried my eyes wide open and looked far into their depths—so deep, so long, so searchingly, so strangely, that I waxed uneasy ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan
... the bowed form at his feet, and in his eyes there was a great compassion. But his lips pronounced, with sternness and decision, the words of the heavy penance imposed, and at the end of the prescribed formulas he raised the boy and looked searchingly ...
— The Secret Chamber at Chad • Evelyn Everett-Green
... looked down, searchingly, into her angry little face, as it confronted him so fiercely in the starlight. And ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... TESMAN is certainly a bit of a bore. (Looks searchingly at her.) What on earth made ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 2, 1891 • Various
... in answer. She looked long and searchingly into Ruth's eyes, then whispered brokenly, "God bless you, dear. ...
— Lavender and Old Lace • Myrtle Reed
... about how I had phrased my answer that caused her to look at me more searchingly than before. Suddenly she turned her face away and gazed at the passing ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve
... of you, of the death of your mother, of our flight to New Zealand, our experiments, the Dodans, and then turning to him, as we saw the Martian moon rise in ruddy fullness far away over the hill of Tiniti, I said, searchingly: 'Chapman, you remember Martha? How beautiful and good she was! I have kept one long, sad, and still deathless hope in my repining heart. I shall see her again! It must be! I have felt so certain of this ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
... afternoon before he had been sent for by Godfrey and most searchingly examined. He had thought himself the spy, when all the while he had been the spied upon. The accursed Justice knew everything. He knew a dozen episodes each enough to hang a poor man. He knew of Mr. Lovel's dealings with the Jesuits Walsh and Phayre, ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan
... for the job of office-boy presented his credentials in a manner that bespoke his entire confidence that the position would be his. The sour-looking old gentleman at the head of the establishment read the paper carefully and then surveyed the boy searchingly. ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... at each other searchingly as the Portland boat pulled out, and a wind swept straight from the ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis
... his brother searchingly. I honestly believe that he didn't very much care about the money, but it cut him to the heart that Lawrence should treat him so shabbily. The soul of generosity himself, he could not understand how anyone could frame a speech so ...
— Derrick Vaughan—Novelist • Edna Lyall
... coat, a sash, and peg top trousers, appeared in the doorway of the presidential mansion. He also wore an expression of deep amazement. He glanced from the tall smiling youth to the diminutive General, on whom his eyes dwelt searchingly. ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... for any sound of firing on the right as an indication that the action had begun. But all was still quiet. A damp dull autumn morning was just dawning. On approaching Tarutino Kutuzov noticed cavalrymen leading their horses to water across the road along which he was driving. Kutuzov looked at them searchingly, stopped his carriage, and inquired what regiment they belonged to. They belonged to a column that should have been far in front and in ambush long before then. "It may be a mistake," thought the old commander ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... both her white trembling hands in the large hand of the good old man. He drew her near his failing eyes; and looked searchingly into her young, ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur
... searchingly at the faces before her, and waited for an answer; but nobody spoke. There was a flush of annoyance on her cheeks, and that firm set about the mouth which generally indicated ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... beyond my power to describe the tone in which he made that reply. I can only declare that it struck me dumb for the moment. I drew a step nearer to him. With vague misgivings in me, I looked him searchingly in the face. He looked ...
— Poor Miss Finch • Wilkie Collins
... Coquenil searchingly. "Nom d'un chien, I guess you're straight, after all, but—how did she come to write that?" He scratched his ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... a good wife, my boy," she returned, gazing searchingly yet tenderly into his eyes; "and I think no woman with any heart at all could have failed to be such ...
— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley
... had gone and come back, this time with the local commissary of police and a couple of agents, who had every man, woman and child in that house out of bed and examined at great length, their identity books searchingly overhauled, their rooms turned topsy-turvy and their ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... child looked very searchingly into Tony's face. It was pale and meagre; but there was a pleasant smile upon it, and his eyes shone down upon the two children with a very loving light in them. The lady took Dolly's hand in hers, nodding ...
— Alone In London • Hesba Stretton
... to the ordinary world just as Mrs. Milton- Cleave was saying good-bye to the hostess. She glanced at them searchingly. ...
— The Autobiography of a Slander • Edna Lyall
... very late to-night—what's that for?" he enquired, shaking the leaf he wore upon his head, and looking at Marianne searchingly. ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... at the bed head on one side, and the doctor, with his fingers on the patient's pulse, sitting on the other, waited with widely different anxieties for the answer to Mr. Neal's question. Mr. Armadale's eyes turned searchingly from his child to ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... the doctor soberly, turning to look searchingly down at her in the moonlight, "would you be willing to let me ...
— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond
... off his peculiar noise again, and fell to at his right-hand nails. Arthur looked searchingly at him; he returned ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... them. "You shouldn't have parquet floors," Lady Staines remarked, holding out her hand; "in the country, it's the ruin of them unless you wear paper soles," she glanced searchingly at Mrs. Fanshawe's and Estelle's feet. "And that of course is the ruin of your feet. Probably you've lived in London ...
— The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome
... the child to a stop and he glanced up at him in vague wonder. The General stooped and gazed at him searchingly, almost fiercely. The next second he had pounced upon him and lifted him in his arms while the bundle fell to ...
— The Christmas Peace - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... at him a moment searchingly, and then turned wearily away. "Well," she said, sinking into her chair again, "he said if I'd shut my mouth he'd shut his—and—I did. And this," she added, throwing her hands from her lap, a gesture half of reproach and half of contempt,—"this is ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
... knelt beside him, and looked searchingly into his now colorless face, while the others hastened with restoratives. Nor did she leave him during the days of illness that followed, except when obliged to rest. Little by little they had told ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts
... on the piano bench and his fingers left the keys. He rose impulsively and came over to where Hamilton stood with an unquenchable light blazing in the eyes. The dreamer laid a hand on each of the achiever's strong shoulders and gazed long and searchingly into the confident face. Hamilton read a fear in that gaze and affectionately ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... at me searchingly. "Or what, Lillian," I pleaded. "Tell me. I am strong enough to stand the truth, ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... his dignity. His countenance was impassible. He even maintained the frown which appeared when D'Artagnan announced his enemies. He made a gesture which signified, "Speak;" and he remained standing, with his eyes fixed searchingly on these desponding men. Pelisson bowed to the ground, and La Fontaine knelt as people do in churches. This dismal silence, disturbed only by sighs and groans, began to excite in the king, not compassion, ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... who was sitting next to him. The latter whispered, "Remember your word of honour. Get up and leave the room." There was a dead hush from those present as the young cornet rose and left the room, and then a low murmur of indignation. Captain Marshall looked round searchingly, as if to pick out one of those who had thus shown signs of resentment. But directly the door closed upon Wilmington, Frank rose ...
— Through Russian Snows - A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow • G. A Henty
... Searchingly, at first suspiciously, then hesitatingly, with a return of the colour that came as easily as a prairie wind stirs the down of a milk-weed plant, Elizabeth Landor returned his look. It was an instinct that at last caused ...
— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge
... "Peal!" and his friend, the commercial traveller, stood before him, looking at him searchingly, and yet with an ...
— In Midsummer Days and Other Tales • August Strindberg
... Catherine says, and has lovely times, winding balls of yarn and cutting paper chains. She has to get a certain number of them done before the enchantment will be broken. I know who suggested that idea to her," said Hannah, looking searchingly into the doctor's face. "I've found out a lot of things this afternoon about you, professionally. Perhaps that was what ...
— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett
... said the yeoman, looking searchingly at her and blushing like a little fire. 'What do you see ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy
... his lip, looked searchingly into Bartja's face, and finding that the boy grew uneasy under his glance, exclaimed abruptly and angrily: "Your first business is to hasten to the Tapuri. My wife needs your care no longer; she has other protectors now." So saying ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... full of curiosity as to who that unknown executioner could be who presented himself so opportunely to assure to the people the promised spectacle, when the people believed it had been postponed until the following day. All gazed at him searchingly. ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... perfection what was afterwards to be an inconvenient—if endearing—characteristic: At any call or whistle he would look in precisely the opposite direction. How many times all through his life have I not seen him, at my whistle, start violently and turn his tail to me, then, with nose thrown searchingly from side to side, begin ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the saddle and forced both ponies back below the crest of the hill, his swift glance sweeping back over their trail. Then he gazed again searchingly into the ...
— Molly McDonald - A Tale of the Old Frontier • Randall Parrish
... street went to the jail and asked to see her. A whim, perhaps, the fruit of idleness or curiosity. But Ellen thought otherwise. She was clothed and in her right mind now, and sat inside of the iron door, looking with her large, grave, blue eyes searchingly at her visitor. "God sent you," she ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various
... me—his instability—one thing one moment, and another the next. It seems to me the only way to break this up is to throw him completely on his own resources so that he may realize for once what life really means. Now tell me—" and she looked searchingly into Cobb's face, as if eager to note the effect of her question—"if he were your only son, would you, in view of all I have told you, send him to New York to make his start in life, or would ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith
... no impatience now, but only trembling anxiety as she went on in a timid voice: "I asked Him to, over and over, and said I would wait two months, and now it's more than three. Are you quite sure He hears now?" She raised herself on her elbow and gazed searchingly into The Pilot's face. I was glad it was not into mine. As she uttered the words, "Are you quite sure?" one felt that things were in the balance. I could not help looking at The Pilot with intense anxiety. ...
— The Sky Pilot • Ralph Connor
... by the fence and peeps into the garden. When he catches sight of ELLIDA he stands still, looks at her fixedly and searchingly, and speaks in a ...
— The Lady From The Sea • Henrik Ibsen
... coffee and tobacco," he replied. He looked about searchingly. "Where are the others?" he ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... and drew his sleeve across his forehead. Most of his hearers were silent now, on tiptoe of expectation. Dimick looked searchingly at Captain Cy. Then ...
— Cy Whittaker's Place • Joseph C. Lincoln
... in a collection of telegrams and papers, and the chief glanced through them. Then he looked at me searchingly and suddenly smiled again. ...
— Trapped in 'Black Russia' - Letters June-November 1915 • Ruth Pierce
... you that they were far less deliberate in my day," said she, with a delicate hint of reminiscence in her tone. Whereupon she looked searchingly at each of us in turn. Then, with a little gasp, she wept daintily upon my ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson
... no French stock!" cried the companion stranger, who had remained silent until now, looking searchingly round the clearing, and examining Humphrey himself with curiosity; "I have no drop of French blood in my veins, whatever Julian may have. I am Fritz Neville. I come of an English family. But you shall hear all later on, as we sit by our fire at night. I would ...
— French and English - A Story of the Struggle in America • Evelyn Everett-Green
... that, I should think," answered Mike, swinging round on his thwart and shading his eyes with his hand as his gaze searchingly swept the river bank. And the other three escaped mutineers expressed ...
— A Middy in Command - A Tale of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... past the Great House up from Chapel street, when a girl came out of the western gate, and with her hand above her eyes looked after them. She seemed in doubt, but looked again, quite searchingly. Then, as one who is not sure, but does not wish to miss a chance, called out, "Nick ...
— Master Skylark • John Bennett
... time a hearty meal. Her place at the table was between Wilfrid and Patty; on the opposite side sat Miss Hood and Minnie. As often as her eyes fell upon the governess's face, they rested there for a moment, searchingly, as if with endeavour to recall ...
— A Life's Morning • George Gissing
... ag'in," he said, briefly, as the man leaned over and helped him up the steps, the boy sweeping his keen eyes searchingly over the faces of the crowd. "It's the RIGHT arm, though," he continued, glancing at the injured member dangling helplessly at his side—"THIS-'UN'S all right yet!" and as he spoke he jerked from the man's assistance, wheeled round, and an instant later, as a buggy-spoke went ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley
... had preserved all his dignity. His countenance was impassible. He had even maintained the frown which had appeared when D'Artagnan had announced his enemies to him. He made a gesture which signified, "Speak:" and he remained standing, with his eyes searchingly fixed upon these desponding men. Pellisson bowed down to the ground, and La Fontaine knelt as people do in churches. This obstinate silence, disturbed only by such dismal sighs and groans, began to excite in the ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... the captain dismissed these painful reflections from his mind, and turned his attention to matters nearer home. He had already searchingly scrutinised the aspect of the weather with most unsatisfactory results. As far as his experience went there was every prospect of a continuance—nay more, an increase—of the gale. The sky to windward looked wilder and more threatening than ever; while that the sea was still rising was ...
— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood
... courtly fashion. He was the ideal host leading a valued guest to his sanctum for a few moments' pleasant conversation. But when they arrived in the little beamed room and the door was closed, his manner changed. He looked searchingly, almost challengingly at Francis. ...
— The Evil Shepherd • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... spoke, Jonathan looked at him sharply and searchingly. The light of the lamp shone on his altered features, which bore the stamp of death. The physician seized his hand; the pulse was almost gone; there was no possibility of saving his life; each moment brought the end nearer. Then Jonathan's hate, revenge, and scorn broke ...
— Sister Carmen • M. Corvus
... paid me last evening," he said. "You will observe the letters I. W. as described by the landlord. Now, where did you get this bill?" he asked searchingly. ...
— Five Hundred Dollars - or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret • Horatio Alger
... to an invisible cross. Now at length, suddenly illumined as it were from within, her features grew plain to Casanova's vision. A smile flitted across her face. Her arms fell to her sides; her lips moved strangely, as if whispering a prayer; once more she looked searchingly across the garden, then nodded almost imperceptibly, and at the instant someone who must hitherto have been crouching at her feet swung across the sill into the open. It was Lorenzi. He flew rather than walked across the gravel ...
— Casanova's Homecoming • Arthur Schnitzler
... she went closely, searchingly over old ground again from the new point of vision. What had always been interesting to her, became now vital, since these characteristics belonged to the man who wanted to wed her. She tried to be remorseless and cruel that she might ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... Jim looked searchingly at the half-averted face of his friend for a moment; then seeming to have come to some conclusion, arose and began to ...
— Three People • Pansy
... own the marsh?" I asked carelessly. I saw instantly in his face the change working in his mind. He looked at me searchingly, almost fiercely, and said, weighing ...
— A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others • F. Hopkinson Smith
... this just yet, not even The Woman, for she too was crying over Gavin's empty sleeve, and thinking of the one who would never come back. Every one was coming up to shake his hand now and Gavin's eyes were wandering searchingly over the crowd, even when Marmaduke and Tremendous K. and the minister were making ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
... while longer, then all said good-night, but not before Nate had been promised the best counsel money could procure. As Joyce shook hands with him, Nate held her soft fingers an instant, and looked searchingly into her face, upon which the smoking lantern ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... open spaces a man must have sand. Courage is the basis upon which the other virtues are built, the fundamental upon which he is most searchingly judged. Let a man tell the truth, stick to his pal, and fight when trouble is forced on him, and he will do to ride the river with, in ...
— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine
... not a human sound interrupted the stillness reigning in the desolate room. Only the hum of a few flies, rushing with their heads against the window-panes, was heard. Once a rustling noise was heard in a corner, and a mouse glided across the floor, its piercing, glittering eyes looked searchingly around, and the sight of the bloody, motionless form, lying prostrate on the floor, seemed to affright it, for it turned and slipped away even faster than it had approached, and ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... rooms," he said, taking in the revolvers with a swift glance of his little, deep-set eyes. "I can give you two that have a door between. Only ones I've got left. Had to put Pinky Jackson into the barn to clear one of 'em. And he's a reg'lar boarder, too." He looked the little girl up and down so searchingly that she shrank behind the ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... sure," remarked Ransford dryly. "They all like to shift the blame from one to another! But," he added, looking searchingly at her, "you don't know anything ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... alone. On the other hand, when, after the arrival of my cousin, I received his first letter and found it filled with enthusiastic descriptions of her, and of how anxious she was to make him happy, I felt a little thrill of jealousy. It gave me some sharp pangs of remorse, and I asked myself searchingly if I had always done my utmost to please my grandfather and to give him pride and pleasure in me. I determined for the future I would think only of how ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... true poor man's book, the true 'Voice of God against tyrants, idlers, and humbugs, was the Bible.' The Bible demands for the poor as much, and more, than they demand for themselves; it expresses the deepest yearnings of the poor man's heart far more nobly, more searchingly, more daringly, more eloquently than any modern orator has done. I say, it gives a ray of hope—say rather a certain dawn of a glorious future, such as no universal suffrage, free trade, communism, organization of labour, or any other Morrison's-pill-measure can give—and yet of a future, ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... man searchingly, for somehow a sense of doubt began to trouble him as to the man's trustworthiness, and the lad began to turn over the position in his mind. For though the man's story seemed to be reasonable enough, ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn
... irritating memory of the Italian and his impossible music recurred to Suvaroff. A sudden sinister cruelty came over him; he felt a wanton ruthlessness that the sight of ugliness sometimes engenders in natures sensitive to beauty. He went up to the hunchback and looked searchingly into the man's face. It was a strangely handsome face, and its incongruity struck Suvaroff. Had Nature been weary, or merely in a satirical mood, when she fashioned such a thing of horror?—for Suvaroff found that the handsome face seemed ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... searchingly upon her in his old suspicious "business" way, his fuzzy grey eyebrows almost meeting in the intensity ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... see her now, ready to start? She was wearing her brown jacket with the fur collar, over which she used to look so searchingly at Tommy. To think there was a time when that serene face had to look searchingly at him! It nearly made her sad again. She paused to bring out the ring and take another exultant look at it. It was attached now to a ribbon round ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... closed the door behind her, and looked searchingly at the prostrate figure; then, lifting the master-key which hung from her girdle, locked ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay
... of the listeners, and fixed his gaze searchingly on the speaker. There was an uneasy movement among the company, but Leonardo ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
... themselves upon her mind, seeming to prove that she had been deceived; while the motives, so powerful with her but a moment before, had either vanished from her memory or lost all their efficacy. Her companion, who gazed searchingly into her face, where the moonlight, coming down between the pines, allowed him to read its expression, probably discerned somewhat of the ...
— Fanshawe • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... anxiously about him, taking in the while that he was close to the river where it ran in a deep, precipitous gully; and as he looked up now to right and then to left, eagerly and searchingly, for the danger that he knew could not be far away, his eyes ranged through densely wooded slopes, lit up here and there by the morning sunshine, and always sweeping the sides of the valley in search of the vedettes, but without avail, ...
— !Tention - A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War • George Manville Fenn
... assassinate him as he slept, but the one whose tablet was marked with a poniard was found lifeless the next day, with his weapon still clutched in his stiffened fingers, and none knew how he died. That day the eyes of Yu Chan grew sterner set than ever, as he gazed searchingly into the face of each bonze as they passed in a long procession before him, while the conspirators grew livid with fear and baffled rage at the cold smile with which he seemed to mock at the failure of their schemes. Then they made one last effort a few days after, and ye shall hear ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... the man who had looked so searchingly at Ellerey in the vestibule. He looked at him now, as though his answer had some reference to him; and the Queen, who did not seem too pleased with the frankly spoken answer, following the direction of ...
— Princess Maritza • Percy Brebner
... exactly young, but of an age that is perhaps more interesting than youth, certainly more sophisticated. She, too, I noticed, had a tense, excited expression on her face. As Kennedy and I entered she had looked us over searchingly. ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve
... fixed her lovely, tear-gemmed eyes upon him searchingly as she asked, "Would you wed me, a beggar, dowered only ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... Graham, that you are a soldier whom any commander will be glad to enroll for life service in his army, but"—and here his Highness looked searchingly at Graham as he had once done before—"I doubt whether your calling be in the Dutch army or in any army that is of our mind or is likely ...
— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren
... B Company moved off in column of fours. A long practice march followed. While out, the company was halted and drilled searchingly. It was a hard morning's work, B Company returning just in time for dinner. In the afternoon there was another drill. ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... Louis, his eyes fixed searchingly on La Mothe's face. The lad's prompt response promised well, all that was needed was to keep this enthusiasm of devotion keyed to the pitch of action. "Body and soul! Be sure I shall not forget. But what you promise in hot blood you will forget when your mood cools. No? Well, Molembrais' mood ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond
... searchingly, wondering if they could possibly guess the state of her finances, concluded they couldn't and said smilingly: "Indeed I will gladly let you saw for an hour or two if you'll come and sit by the fire on Saturday night, when we are going to play spelling ...
— Mother Carey's Chickens • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... I learned from his lips later, that as he stood there in all the ecstacy of his sweet intercourse with the well-beloved, the painted image of the God of Love that stood beside the bridge, above the fountain, came to life again, and moved and came in front of Dante and looked upon him very searchingly. The God of Love lifted the hand that carried his fateful arrow and pointed with the dart toward the gray palace, and it spoke to Dante in a voice of command, and said, "Behold thy heart." Then Dante felt ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... Gracie?" queried Betty in increasing wonder and astonishment, and glancing searchingly round the room. "Is ...
— The Two Elsies - A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket, Book 10 • Martha Finley
... The mother of such an elk? You have one mother already, and if you need another, go to Mitsha's mother." With these words she fixed her gaze on the youth searchingly and inquiringly. As her face was in the shadow Hayoue could not well notice its expression. But he said again, and ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... firma, and finding plenty of space around, they scrambled from off the pile of loose stones and stalks cast down by the Indians, and commenced groping their way about. Again touching the firm surrounding of rock, they groped searchingly along it. ...
— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid |
