"Look up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grew terrified. "Look up! speak to me! Winifred, dear Winifred, my own Winifred, in spite of all!" he broke forth. "Smile at me, my dearest, once more, and keep these foolish letters you so value, keep them all." And he thrust them into her ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various
... the first page. You look up for a moment, hesitating to turn the next page. Already you suspect ...
— Hall of Mirrors • Fredric Brown
... minute ago, but now I am in earnest. I mean what I say. Your voice takes the load off my heart and the darkness off my brain, and we are standing again by that stone bridge over yonder—Arthur's Bridge—and I see you in all your beauty—oh! such beauty—as I look up from Ply's cut collar against the sunset sky. That was my last hour of vision, and its memory will go with me to the grave. And now when I hear your voice, it all comes back to me, and the terrible darkness has vanished—or the sense ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... his affection and respect for her really were we may see from his own words: "I am a fool bereft of her co-operation. I am used to look up at her in the worst and biggest perplexities. To say all that I find her would be more than I think anybody could possibly understand. She is older, wiser, and better than I am, and all my wretched imperfections I cover to myself by resolutely ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester
... while he was writing, surrounded by books, drawings and papers, Masin came and stood silently at his elbow, waiting till it should please him to look up. Malipieri carefully finished the sentence he had begun, and laid down his pen. ...
— The Heart of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford
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