Looks
[luks]
Examples
- How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I quickened my pace, and, passing among them, wondering at their looks, went hurriedly in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It looks as if the old man's spirit had found rest at last; don't it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She looks; the moon is up. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Do your looks belie you? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Besides, I choose to please myself by sharing an idea that at this moment beams in your mother's eye while she looks at you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To see how pretty the Maypole looks in the moonlight? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It's enough to make one ill to be told one looks so! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She's got such a soft heart, it will melt like butter in the sun if anyone looks sentimentlly at her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- My Lady turns her head inward for the moment, then looks out again as before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The buff finish looks all right, but it does not harden the silver sufficiently and in consequence the latter does not wear well. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I forgot it, but I want it done though it will spoil my looks. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What other changes have come upon me, besides the changes in my growth and looks, and in the knowledge I have garnered all this while? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have encountered her looks and smiles like--why, like a tutor, as I am. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Jo stops in the middle of a bite and looks petrified. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He is slender, not tall, wiry, and looks as if he could endure any amount of physical exercise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He will be marquis some day, and there is no denying that she would make a good marchioness: she looks handsomer than ever in her mourning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Pain, for her, has no result in good: tears water no harvest of wisdom: on sickness, on death itself, she looks with the eye of a rebel. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mother’s dress looks dark and baby’s dress white--just as the lens saw it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He looks sadly changed--terribly shaken. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And I hope that he may find it--Mr. Bucket again looks grave--to his satisfaction. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Give her a door-key to carry in her t'other one, Fagin,' said Sikes; 'it looks real and genivine like. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Lennox wondered how his brother, the Captain, could have reported her as having lost all her good looks. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Only tip him a nod every now and then when he looks off his paper, said Wemmick, and he'll be as happy as a king. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She looks so cut up and altered that I'm sure she can't last long. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She looks like a corpse now. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- These are again the words of Jarvis Lorry, as he clasps his hands, and looks upward. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Now, about some things, St. Clare is really frightful--he frightens me--good-natured as he looks, in general. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checked by Bernie