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Look away   /lʊk əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Look away

verb
1.
Avert one's gaze.






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"Look away" Quotes from Famous Books



... he had taken her in his arms and kissed her lingeringly. Yet he had not moved except to turn his face toward her. She could not look away, could not even try to pull her eyes from his. It was as though she yielded. She felt suffocated, though her breath came ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower

... it," said Nyoda, with that smile of hers that never fails to win a confidence. The girl looked into Nyoda's eyes and did not look away again. ...
— The Campfire Girls Go Motoring • Hildegard G. Frey

... an odd, almost wistful way, and I couldn't look away from him, though I wanted to, for it was as if he were reading my inmost Me—using my eyes for windows, of which ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... feature was his eyes, which seemed to observe all that was going on, not only what was on the surface, but beneath the surface, and that not rudely or covertly but with the frank, quick look of the trained observer. Miss Langham found it an interesting face to watch, and she did not look away from it. She was acquainted with every one else in the room, and hence she knew this must be the cowboy of whom Mrs. Porter had spoken, and she wondered how any one who had lived the rough life of the West could still retain the look when in formal clothes of one who ...
— Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis

... look away. She smiles—yes, she smiles upon me, and inclines her head to see me, like a sunflower following the sun, ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro


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