"Look around" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... girl at home has this feeling of unrest, she may be too ready to marry the first suitor, because she thinks more about the ideal home she can make than about the husband. If, on the contrary, she goes away and earns her living, she will look around her with less prejudiced eyes. If her home is really unhappy, she will be free from it. If its troubles are merely superficial, she will find this out as soon as she compares it with other homes. If she has not been willing to meet her share of trial and responsibility, she will ...
— Girls and Women • Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
... his other patient, whom he reckoned as good as dead, Charley stepped outside the wigwam and cast a quick look around. A smile of satisfaction parted his lips as he noted the distant figures of his companions behind the tree barricade, each at his post, gun in hand, nervously alert. From them, his glance went on to the point, where the battle was still going on. To even an unobserving ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... Craig," the former said good-humoredly. "I thought better of you than that. However, you will have all day tomorrow. Get on your new clothes, and look around. There 's plenty would jump ...
— Gordon Craig - Soldier of Fortune • Randall Parrish
... dread shadow! Can I then forget My father's look—his voice? He beckons yet! Now on that glimmering rock I see him stand: Avenge! he cries, and waves his dim-seen hand! Thus mused the youth, distempered and forlorn, When, hark! the sound as of a distant horn 70 Swells o'er the surge! he turned his look around, And still, with many a pause, he heard the sound: It came from yonder rocks; and, list! what strain Breaks on the silence of the sleeping main? I heard the song of gladness; It seemed but yesterday, But ...
— The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 • William Lisle Bowles
... this apathy, Restores to me my tears? Each moment, as I look around, How changed ...
— The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi • Giacomo Leopardi
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