"Glance over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a cursory glance over his shelves. There were a number of small glass jars containing earthy substances, labeled "Pavement and Road Sweepings," from the principal thoroughfares and suburbs of London, with the sub-directions "for identifying foot-tracks." There were several other jars, labeled "Fluff ...
— New Burlesques • Bret Harte
... speak, then? You are not dumb? I had thought it was a pretty waxen effigy of Our Lady, for the padre here," and she laughed mockingly, with a glance over her shoulder. ...
— Margaret Tudor - A Romance of Old St. Augustine • Annie T. Colcock
... her a quick glance over the tow yarn rack, but the fair face was very serene, and without a trace of personal feeling ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... could be continued. It is practically certain that there was no painted scenery, the absence of which would greatly facilitate the expeditious passage from scene to scene. Stage properties, however, were probably a valuable part of the theatrical belongings. If we glance over the stage-directions in the plays of Greene, Peele, Kyd and Marlowe, we come upon such visible objects as a throne, a bower, a bed, a table, a tomb, a litter, a cage, a chariot, a hearse, a tree; more elaborate would be Alphonsus's canopy with a king's head at each of three corners, Bungay's ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne
... exclaimed as he reached her. Then, after a swift glance over the fields, he drew her into the shelter of the trees, and holding his cigar in his ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
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