"Scanning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was touched. "Is he like me?" she said, scanning his features. He, without heeding her, said ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
... time approaching the spot where they had seen the marks, and Shaddy advanced more cautiously, scanning every leaf and twig before he stepped forward for signs of him they sought. Here and there he was able to point out marks such as Mr Brazier might have made— marks that had been passed over during their journey in the other direction. For there were places where he had evidently torn down leaves, ...
— Rob Harlow's Adventures - A Story of the Grand Chaco • George Manville Fenn
... adventurers dropping down the Thames with the first of the ebb tide, and a slight breeze from the south-west; Mabberly and Jackman in the very small cabin looking after stores, guns, rods, etcetera; Barret anxiously scanning the columns of a newspaper; Quin and the skipper making each other's acquaintance with much of the suspicion observable in two bull-dogs who meet accidentally; the boy in the fore part of the vessel coiling ropes; and the remainder of ...
— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne
... pursued my way more cautiously and silently, but in a cold perspiration with terror at the peril I had just escaped. Bruised, cut, and shaken, I still held on my path till break of day, when I lay down under a huge log, and slept undisturbed till noon. Then, getting up, I climbed a great hill, and, scanning the country round, I saw, to my unspeakable joy, some habitations of white people, about ...
— The Red True Story Book • Various
... the very thing that I was thinking, Zizine, but I should not have put it so neatly," said Stanislas, scanning himself from top ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
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