"Look on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was nothing; the next, wicked pencils of orange light were snaking across the attic! And then two guns clanged on the floor, unfired, and the man called Jake staggered forward, crumpled and fell, a puzzled look on his face and accurately between his eyes a little round neat hole that had come as if by magic. Two others, similarly stricken, toppled down, their fingers still tensed on ray-gun triggers; the fourth pirate, his heart drilled, went back from the force of it and ...
— Hawk Carse • Anthony Gilmore
... from 25 to 35 cents, while the cost in the Douglas fir type, in Montana and Idaho, averages about 40 cents, and in Engelmann spruce type the cost is only about 25 cents a thousand. It is certain, however, that the cost of piling will everywhere be materially reduced when the operators begin to look on piling as part of the swampers' regular work and not as an ...
— Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest • Edward Tyson Allen
... Look on the travellers kneeling, In thankful gladness, here, As the boat that brought them o'er the lake, Goes steaming ...
— Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin • Unknown
... I disapprove of it, as I do other Faults in Writing; only I would not have Men punish'd, or any other way disturb'd about it, than by a Return of Ridicule and Irony. This I think fit to conclude with, more to prevent Misrepresentation from others, than from you; whom I look on to have too much Sense and Integrity ...
— A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) • Anthony Collins
... his whip, and off galloped the horses, the men cheering and waving their hats at the same time, and throwing showers of silver among the boys in the street, who had gathered to look on, and who were soon engaged in a pretty scrimmage to pick up the coins thus profusely bestowed on them. Tom and I could with difficulty refrain from ...
— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston
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