Beholding

Examples

• How can I describe my sensations on beholding it? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Have I the pleasure of again beholding Copperfield! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He appeared somewhat reassured, on beholding her in the same listless attitude from which he had first roused her. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Arabella, who was sitting at work, rose on beholding a stranger--a little confused--but by no means ungracefully so. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But Gerald looked back as he rowed, beholding her, forgetting what he was doing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Beholding him in which glow of contentment, Mr. Guppy says, You are a man again, Tony! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle looked on, petrified at beholding such a scene between two such men. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The distinctively human function is reason existing for the sake of beholding the spectacle of the universe. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Only one of my young people,' said Fagin, observing that Monks drew back, on beholding a stranger. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Her frantic joy at beholding me again moved me much. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Presently one of the blacks looked up, and beholding Tarzan, turned, shrieking, toward the palisade. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Hence people who began by beholding him ended by perusing him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In heaven, I replied, there is laid up a pattern of it, methinks, which he who desires may behold, and beholding, may set his own house in order. Plato. The Republic.

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