Word: look
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Taking confidence, the boy directed his new-found friend, and, after a fifteen-minutes fight with the storm, they came to the battered and shabby little cottage. The boy was for running right in, but the stranger held him back. "No, let's take a look first," said...
...jest questhin the boss when he comes 'long. But gosh! look at that picter of a hoss up there: he's a fine-looking critter, ain't he? Speaking of hosses, you know that old un I had last year: he was a good puller, but unsound from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. He was spavined and hed the heaves, but I'll be blamed if I did n't sell him for a clean hunded and a watch ter boot to a city fellah who thought he was powerful cute...
...want to have it supposed that I forthwith began to ogle and beam upon those eyes, just because I liked their looks. By no means. I'd like to have you know that I'm a Baptist, and Baptists are not that kind of people. But the more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that those two eyes supplied a long-felt need in the completion of my temporal happiness. Somehow, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to look in their direction; and I always do what is natural when I can conscientiously. Half...
...noticed that they did not wear that look of ineffable sweetness that had been so marked before. They looked cold; I thought even a little severe. "The poor child," I said, "she takes it much to heart. She's really quite enraged at these intruders who so unconsciously disturbed our charming vis-a-vis. I'll have to cheer her." And thereupon I concentrated all the amiability of my naturally lovely disposition into one enchanting, bewitching smile, and cast it full into her face...
...does so, he seizes her hands and holds her fast, glancing up back at her laughingly. They are in this position, when, suddenly, enter Mrs. Flynn. He drops the hands and springs to the opposite side of the room, where he begins to whistle and tries to look as unconcerned as possible...