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Taking off his hat, the old man wiped the sweat from his face, then turned an observant eye upon the river, whose muddy waters were already lapping the boughs of the overhanging trees, and with a long-drawn breath exclaimed, "Bank an' bank!" Then, as his experienced eye noted the angry swirls near the shore and the débris borne rapidly upon the turbid current, "An' still on de rise.
Mangan, who was more observant than she appeared to be, noted the gloom with a gratified eye, and being entirely aware of its cause, said to herself with satisfaction: "Ha, ha, me young man!" This picnic was, in truth, made ever memorable in the circle of Mrs. Mangan's friends by reason of the triumph of Tishy. "Ah, that was the day she cot the two birds under the one stone!" "Well!
Lady Shalem was a woman of commanding presence, of that type which suggests a consciousness that the command may not necessarily be obeyed; she had observant eyes and a well-managed voice. Her successes in life had been worked for, but they were also to some considerable extent the result of accident. Her public history went back to the time when, in the person of her husband, Mr.
Dan felt more lonely than ever after this new-made friend had gone, and, with Crippy in his arms, he started wearily out in search of uncle Robert, hardly knowing where he was going. In his bewilderment he had walked entirely around the same block four times, and an observant policeman asked him where he was going.
The stately observant way in which they stalk about, and their great size, compared with the others, always impressed me with the idea that in their bulky heads lay the brains that directed the community in its various duties. Many of their actions, such as that I have mentioned of two relays of workmen carrying out the ant-food, can scarcely be blind instinct.
Everywhere, I say, and all day long, the seaman has to observe facts and to use facts, unless he intends to be drowned; and therefore, so far from being a superstitious man, who refuses to inquire into facts, but puts vain dreams in their stead, the sailor is for the most part a very scientific-minded man: observant, patient, accurate, truthful; conquering Nature, as the great saying is, because he obeys her.
"And apparently got one or more." "Apparently so, Sir John." "Moreover " Lady Cantourne turned on him with her usual vivacity. "Moreover?" she repeated. "He did not need to write it down on the card; it was written there already." She closed her fan with a faint smile "I sometimes wonder," she said, "whether, in our young days, you were so preternaturally observant as you are now."
The most important transactions, schemes, and journeys, are undertaken without once committing themselves to the guidance or protection of that Providence which is observant of their steps, and supplies them, notwithstanding their ingratitude.
Anything particular?" "Nothing at all particular before half-past four or so, sir." Collingwood took a closer look at Jabez Naylor. He saw that he was an observant lad, evidently of superior intelligence a good specimen of the sharp town lad, well trained in a modern elementary school. "Oh?" he said. "Nothing particular before half-past four, eh?
He was wrong in the first terms of his comparison: for he underrated the creative, hence spontaneous element in his own nature, while claiming primarily the position of an observant thinker; and he overrated the amount of creativeness implied by the poetry of his wife.
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