Looking
['lʊkɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of searching visually.
(adj.) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; 'left their clothes dirty looking'; 'a most disagreeable looking character'; 'angry-looking'; 'liquid-looking'; 'severe-looking policemen on noble horses'; 'fine-sounding phrases'; 'taken in by high-sounding talk' .
Checked by Juliana--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Look
(a.) Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.
(n.) The act of one who looks; a glance.
(n.) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face.
Checker: Nicole
Examples
- She stood looking at him in gloomy, heavy silence, for some time. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Bradley, very white, sat looking at him in silence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No my dear lady, in regard to my being employed just now, looking out for work. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I beg you will not do anything of the kind, Tertius, said Rosamond, looking at him with something more marked than usual in her speech. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He might have seen his old acquaintance Amelia on her way from Brompton to Russell Square, had he been looking out. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That stupendous character looked at him, in the course of his official looking at the dinners, in a manner that Mr Dorrit considered questionable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Then it slowly arose, and sat in the window looking out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They stood looking at each other; Mr. Gradgrind's face as white as the pursuer's. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I approve of her looking at me; it does me good. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They stood in the door, looking after me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- At one of the theatre doors, there was a little girl with a mother, looking for a way across the street through the mud. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- That is not the way things come about: we grow into a new point of view: only afterwards, in looking back, do we see the landmarks of our progress. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But that gentleman, looking at Darcy, seemed to think the country was nothing at all. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Miss Murdstone had been looking for us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They have been looking at the house in St. Peter's Place, next to Mr. Hackbutt's; it belongs to him, and he is putting it nicely in repair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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