Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three days, various sorts of dogs padded around a sawdust circle-terriers, shepherds, spaniels, collies, retrievers, chihauhuas, whippets, elk-hounds, greyhounds, wolfhounds, setters, pointers, pinschers, griffons, poodles, pugs, Newfoundlands, Pomeranians, beagles, basset hounds, bulldogs-while humans in corresponding variety watched them with admiring gaze. At last, after many ribbons had been awarded, it was time to decide which was the best...
...light of fellowship is to light up Mem Hall for a last carouse. Next week the pall of unlighted vacancy will descend from its timbers, cover the wainscoting, and shut off the inquiring gaze of the gentlemen whose portraits have stared indifferently over the heads of several generations. For tonight, at least, decaying grandeur will be enlivened by a farewell feast. Rumor has it that Mem has splurged on turkey, the royal American bird, and invites all her remembering sons to dine with...
When Professor King was asked what the amateur could do in the way of observation, he said, "I should suggest either a smoked glass or a blackened negative. Perhaps the latter would be preferable," he added, smiling slightly, "as it won't smudge your face as you gaze heavenward...
...emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...
...intellect, be it sufficiently subtle, may be able to explain logically how spirits are substantial enough to reflect light, and why the timid creatures, shrinking to invisibility before human gaze, pose so graciously for the photographer. But who will explain the face of Battling Siki among the ethereal throng? Perhaps, the spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined...