"Look up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... She seemed to look up gratefully, as if she could already behold the lovely, celestial gardens told of in ...
— Heidi - (Gift Edition) • Johanna Spyri
... means of controlling the public the minister has at his command! Of their own accord, men "assemble and meet together," and look up to him. In the country, the town-roads centre at the meeting-house, which is also the terminus a quo, the golden mile-stone, whence distances are measured off. Once a week, the wheels of business, and even of pleasure, drop into the old customary ruts, and turn thither. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... the next morning Polly sat in a big chair in the library, reading her favorite fairy book. A slight sound caused her to look up ...
— Princess Polly's Playmates • Amy Brooks
... "the fellow is unbearable." He gave another look up to the house, turned his horse's head, and set off like a man who has nothing either annoying or embarrassing in his mind. When he was at the end of the wall, and out of sight,—"Well, now, I wonder," said he, breathing quickly, "whether Athos was at home. ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... we smile, we sing, we contrive to be glad of being alive, and we take great interest in the changing of our jails. But no man knows where his neighbor's prison lies. How bravely and cheerily most eyes look up! This is one of the sweetest mercies of life, that "the heart knoweth its own bitterness," and, knowing it, can hide it. Hence, we can all be friends for other prisoners, standing separated from them by the impassable iron gratings and the fixed gulf of space, which are not inappropriate ...
— Bits About Home Matters • Helen Hunt Jackson
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