Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ground first, and catch all the fish before he was up. Then how I would grin at him when he came along an hour afterward! With what coolness I would hold up my twenty-pounders to his astonished and chagrined gaze! A glorious opportunity for revenge...
...meditations were at this point interrupted by a loud cry of "Yang, yang!" and suddenly before my affrighted gaze there stood the form of an aboriginal and autochthonous native. Of course I was scared perfectly indigo, the more so as he poured forth a torrent of unintelligible sounds, among which I barely distinguished the familiar syllables of Lardy and Linda. When I did recognize these, however, I leave the reader to imagine what feelings I experienced. All that impotent rage and hate mingled with love, all that blighted hope and the consciousness of personal injury combined with everlasting affection, could...
...were refused because they appeared in print as complaints. It is therefore to be wished that those who feel that their gall must be poured out should indeed pour it out, but should keep it at least three days for their own inspection before they submit it to public gaze. After that time their own judgment will tell them what to do with...
That held our fixed gaze...
...from the exhibition room above. Almost every visitor tramps through the reading-room, but searcely one in ten ascends to the exhibition room, where the curiosities of the Library are displayed to any wishing to see them. Visitors are not admitted behind the counter of a banking-house to gaze over the shoulders of the busy clerks; why should they be admitted into our counting-house, to disturb us by their stares and whispered comments...