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Look on   /lʊk ɑn/   Listen
Look on

verb
1.
Observe with attention.  Synonym: watch.
2.
Look on as or consider.  Synonyms: esteem, look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, think of.  "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician" , "He is reputed to be intelligent"






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"Look on" Quotes from Famous Books



... they love to follow Deerfoot across the great river? His heart was sad for them because so many bowed to his bow and arrow—so he left them that his eyes might not look on their warriors who fell by his hand; the Shawanoes are fools, because they follow Deerfoot. They cannot harm him, for he is the friend of the white man, and the Great Spirit gives him his care; let the Shawanoes send Tecumseh and the Hurons send ...
— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis

... Seraphine's predecessor Miss Jones, whose views were wholly material; yet if, on bright mornings, I forget to immediately open all the library windows on coming down, the April baby runs in, and with quite a worried look on her face cries, "Mummy, won't you open the windows and let the lieber ...
— The Solitary Summer • Elizabeth von Arnim

... Osmond to Sir Giles. "Look on me if you can. Never should my name have been revealed to you, except at a moment when there should have been no chance of its repetition, on your part, but for my brother's will, of the existence of which I have only been lately aware, and which has obliged me to avow myself. But ...
— The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth

... a five years child— He is my youngest boy: To look on eyes so fair and wild, It is a very joy:— He hath conversed with sun and shower, And dwelt with every idle flower, As fresh and gay as them. He loiters with the briar rose,— The blue-belles are his play-fellows, That dance ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... it would mean to you to be shut away from your little girl, never to look on her for two long years, with no decent friend to care for her—and then keep my little Chris! Oh, Doctor, keep him, and don't let him know ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd


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