Word: gazing
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...that she is naked and stretched out on a bed-no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...
...newest edition of the Harvard Lampoon, which out-Esquires that noble men's magazine and carries its burlesque to great lengths, has been adjudged unfit for the gaze of virtuous Bostonese. So the metropolitan censors have it banned as indecent from Boston newsstands...
Most metropolitan newspapers keep heir private squabbles politely hidden from public gaze, but Washington, D. C. presents two notable exceptions. One is the Washington Post, published by bald, scholarly Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. The other is Hearst's Washington Herald, run by saucy, red-haired Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson...
Eliot House, like its symbol, the elephant, is the largest of its kind. But, also like the elephant, it is not its physical size which makes it great. Impressive to gaze upon, it becomes even more appreciated when its inner characteristics are known...
...pleasant to walk airily up Holyoke Street these brisk spring mornings, once again convinced that the world is essentially round, and its Creator in His appointed place. Humming a measure or two from Mendelssohn, one crosses Mt. Auburn Street, headed Yard-wards. But as one's gaze falls on the new University Parking Place, the smile of joy is likely to vanish from one's face...