Overlooks
[,əuvə'luks]
Examples
- For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The traveller from the deck of the steamer, as from some floating castle top, overlooks the whole country for miles and miles around. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The lady who built the new part of this house as that tablet records, and whose son overlooks and directs everything here. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To take care, in doing this, that one end of the stick shall be at the edge of the rocks, on the side of them which overlooks the quicksand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But it overlooks the fact that fear need not be an undesirable factor in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- After that I determined to lie in wait, so I got out my revolver and I sat up in my study, which overlooks the lawn and garden. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Miguel