Beheld

Examples

• On another occasion when reconnoitring thus she beheld two female figures walking in the vale. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I had never before beheld one killed by pestilence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then she is no rule for Mrs. Churchill, who is as thorough a fine lady as any body ever beheld. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The most extraordinary thing about the man was, that he was contorting his face into the most fearful and astonishing grimaces that ever were beheld. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Why, hermit, was the yeoman's first question as soon as he beheld the knight, what boon companion hast thou here? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I thank God, that I have beheld his throne, the heavens, and earth, his footstool. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Gerty felt the poverty, the insignificance of her surroundings: she beheld her life as it must appear to Lily. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Never before have I beheld such a change produced in a woman by her marriage as has been produced in Madame Fosco. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On opening my eyes, I beheld at my side an aged man, whose white beard descended to his middle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The woman looked at Yeobright, and beheld him colourless, in a cold sweat. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I had not advanced another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy approaching. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• On similar grounds he never beheld an inmate at any one of its windows but he touched his hat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I perceived that it was I myself whom I beheld in a large mirror at the end of the hall. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At last, the lighted way, he cried, and looking up I beheld at a long distance before us a dim radiance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• His whiskers had made an impression upon her, on the very first night she beheld them at the ball at Messrs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He wheeled instantly and charged me with the most appalling speed I had ever beheld. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• At this time, I beheld, coming towards me, a being of extraordinary beauty. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I never beheld any thing so utterly destroyed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Charley had always regarded Eustacia as Eustacia had regarded Clym when she first beheld him--as a romantic and sweet vision, scarcely incarnate. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He was alive to every new scene; joyful when he saw the beauties of the setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise, and recommence a new day. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I grieve for the maiden, for she is of fair and comely countenance,--I beheld her in the lists of Ashby. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Upon the whole, I never beheld, in all my travels, so disagreeable an animal, or one against which I naturally conceived so strong an antipathy. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Murchison at their head, were until recently convinced that we beheld in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum the first dawn of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She was sitting with four of the most lovely children I ever beheld at one time. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Turning in surprise, she beheld at her elbow one whose presence instantly caused her to flush to the temples. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I had done so, and was looking along the desolate garden walk, when I beheld a solitary figure in it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• If I had beheld a thousand roses blowing in a top set of chambers, in that withered Gray's Inn, they could not have brightened it half so much. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But, when night came, and with her veiled eyes beheld him stumping towards Boffin's Bower, he was elated too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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