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...y well pleased, both with my prop- erty and its situation. While I was yet surveying it with growing content, I espied, at one of the upper lattices w...

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...ng began to dawn I was awakened by the voice of a man standing over me and surveying me. I know not what he was: he was an ill-looking fellow, but not... ...ances. Most people, indeed, cannot be addressed on such a business without surveying you with looks as austere 35 Thomas de Quincey and unpropitious ... ... such a state of suffering necessarily presumes in the recorder a power of surveying his own case as a cool spectator, and a degree of spirits for ade...

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...ile William. We next find Capt. Boldheart about three leagues off Ma deira, surveying through his spy glass a stranger of suspi cious appearance mak...

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... Ask me no more: the truth is known to none, Save the earth fostering, all surveying Sun. Aeschylus 25 LEADER Say, by what doom the fleet of Greece w...

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...th,” said the young fisherman to Tregarthen. “O!” returned Kitty’s father, surveying the unfortunate captain with a look of extreme disfavour. “I conf...

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...the Major does nothing by halves as witness his great delight in going out surveying with Jemmy when he has Jemmy to go with, carrying a chain and a m...

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... made this remark. He as sitting on the fence at the end of his garden and surveying the great Bun Hill gas- works with an eye that neither praised no... ...-pins,, a cap with ear-flaps, and so forth. “A ‘ome from ‘ome,” said Bert, surveying this provision as he tied the ear-flaps under his chin. He looked... ...some seconds he stood staggering in the car, which now swayed sickeningly, surveying the exasperated crowd below him and trying to collect his mind. H... ...e up out of the haze above the houses and came round in a long curve as if surveying the position below. The fire of the Germans rose to a roar, and o... ...d meditated. “Blowed if I don’t think I’m a rather lucky fellow!” he said, surveying the pleasant sun-bespattered ground under the trees. Then he beca... ... the fleet of Prince Karl Albert had crossed England, while Bert was still surveying Manchester in bird’s-eye view, the diplo- matic exchanges were go...

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...ss about the eyes and complexion I think,’ replied she, somewhat dubiously surveying my face;—‘and I think I saw you at church on Sunday.’ I smiled.—T... ...ck, and, in a minute or two more, the little fellow was seated on my knee, surveying with eager interest the various specimens of horses, cattle, pigs... ...eted your painting,’ said I, approach- ing to observe it more closely, and surveying it with a greater degree of admiration and delight than I cared t... ...unobserved by an one but me, and had been standing before the door, grimly surveying the company. He now stepped up to Annabella, who sat with her bac... ...he dark? What ails you, young woman: you look like a ghost!’ he continued, surveying me by the light of his candle. ‘No matter,’ I answered, ‘to you; ... ...age to himself, and went up- stairs. ‘You are poorly, ma’am,’ said Rachel, surveying me with deep anxiety. ‘It is too true, Rachel,’ said I, answering... ...en I was tired of leaning forward, with the cold, raw wind in my face, and surveying the russet hedges and the damp, tangled grass of their banks, I g... ...od and his gun; the former walked in, and stood with his back to the fire, surveying Mr. Hargrave and me, particularly the former, with a smile of ins... ... It was a clear, frosty morning. The very fact of sitting ex- alted aloft, surveying the snowy landscape and sweet sunny sky, inhaling the pure, braci...

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... this side and now on that, as if it were actually the question, and he were surveying it in various aspects, Mr. Britain replied that he wasn’t alto... ..., ‘and many thanks to him.’ ‘Man’s the creature of habit,’ said Mr. Britain, surveying her, over his saucer. ‘I had somehow got used to you, Clem; and...

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...oisy enormity. Its common aspect is one of unsolicitous observation, as if surveying a full field and hav- ing leisure to dart on its chosen morsels, ...

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...ver catch one of them, when you wanted anything of him, making a system of surveying the Line through a transparent medium composed of your head and b...

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...“Anything. Koh-ring let it be.” He looked thoughtfully at the chart as if surveying chances and distances from a lofty height—and following with his ...

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...Compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels, But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage, With furbish’d arms and new supplies of men Began a fres...

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...bin’s room, and his own hard by— “Y ou ain’t got young,” John said, calmly surveying his friend of former days. Dobbin laughed. “Ten years and a fever... ...with all her voice, brought up those wor- thy people, who had already been surveying the Major from the casement of the ornamental kitchen, and were a... ...esty: it was, on the contrary, much perturbed and puzzled in look. Jos was surveying the queer little apartment in which he found his old flame. One o... ...rning of Waterloo, as the young men stood together in front of their line, surveying the black masses of Frenchmen who crowned the opposite heights, a... ...e, Amelia,” said Becky, marching up and down the room before the other and surveying her with a sort of contemptuous kindness. “I want to talk to you....

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...e to speak of for the sun to spoil. Stand- ing in the bare stone hall, and surveying a staircase of superb breadth, but cracked and carpetless, she fu... ...e looking-glass, and compressing his face into the likeness of a commander surveying a field of battle, or a martyr watching the flames lick his toes,... ... knew to be the manager of the hotel, stood quite near them in the doorway surveying the scene—the gentlemen loung- ing in chairs, the couples leaning... ...ndly depressed. “They are not satisfactory; they are ignoble,” he thought, surveying his guests from a little distance, where he was gathering togethe... ... “How it makes one long to be a man!” she exclaimed. Mr. Perrott answered, surveying the plain, that a coun- try with a future was a very fine thing. ... ...ords roused her husband, who had been mutter- ing rhythmically to himself, surveying his guests and his food and his wife with eyes that were now mela...

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...yance, and a safe one. ‘ Appears against the boy, does he?’ said Mr. Fang, surveying Mr. Brownlow contemptuously from head to foot. ‘Swear him!’ ‘Befo... ...ry ill at ease, however. ‘Grin away,’ said Sikes, replacing the poker, and surveying him with savage contempt; ‘grin away. You’ll never have the laugh... ...ipe with tears in his eyes. ‘You’ve been brought up bad,’ said the Dodger, surveying his boots with much satisfaction when Oliver had polished them. ‘... ...of a thing, a knock coming at such a time in the morning,’ said Mr. Giles, surveying the pale faces which surrounded him, and looking very blank him ... ...e, a married man,’ replied Mr. Bumble, shading his eyes with his hand, and surveying the stranger, from head to foot, in evident perplexity, ‘is not m... ..., that ain’t.’ ‘W ot department has he got, Fagin?’ inquired Master Bates, surveying Noah’s lank form with much disgust. ‘The cut ting away when ther...

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...e answered, and continued his work; moving his lantern jaws meanwhile, and surveying my dress and countenance (the former a great deal too fine, but t... ... recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented. Some- times, indeed, while surveying the country from her nursery window, she would observe— ‘Ellen, h... ... and entrust your message to me.’ ‘Which is his rahm?’ pursued the fellow, surveying the range of closed doors. I perceived he was bent on refusing my... ...I am not like him, am I?’ ‘Not much,’ I answered: not a morsel, I thought, surveying with regret the white complexion and slim frame of my com- panion... ... idea of relieving his embarrassment, took up my station in the door- way, surveying the external prospect as I stood. He followed my example, and lef... ...ted his arms on the table, and looked at the opposite wall, as I supposed, surveying one particular portion, up and down, with glittering, restless ey...

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...Ella sat on a high chair by the coffee things, and he stood in the doorway surveying the peaceful scene for a moment or so, before he went across the ... ...vanished out of the world. It is dreadful to look upon the young. He stood surveying the faces of the young people as the rector read the Preface to t... ... the room and exchanged greetings with Lady Ella. Then he stood for a time surveying his chil- dren. Phoebe, he noted, was a little flushed; she put p...

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... here.” She reflected for a moment on the word. “It isn’t that,” she said, surveying him. “I oughtn’t to get over the wall,” she explained. “It’s out ... ...he old woman must be there alone. He went back to the shop front and stood surveying it in infi- nite perplexity. The other activities in the street d... ... bleeding, but indomitable, Uncle Jim entered the house. “Bolls!” he said, surveying the bar. “Fightin’ with bolls! I’ll show ‘im fightin’ with bolls!...

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...ou now, at a average rate of going, to be a Judge?’ asked Mr Boffin, after surveying his small stature in silence. The boy answered that he had not ye... ...ing flow- ers on the rosy hours and on the staircase, and that T wemlow is surveying the ground on which he is to play his distin- guished part to-mor... ...d an unacknowledged member of that gentleman’ s family. Whom Lady Tippins, surveying through her eye-glass, considers a fine man, and quite a catch; a... ...d lo the rest of the characters. Whom Lady Tippins, standing on a cushion, surveying through the eye-glass, thus checks off. ‘Bride; five-and-forty if...