Reaching the place where I had shot that first creature, I stopped, and made a careful scrutiny; but could see nothing.

NOTE.The severest scrutiny has not enabled me to decipher more of the damaged portion of the MS.

A keen, breathless scrutiny, a frenzied clutch with both hands, and then he was upon his feet again, holding close to the lantern the thing he had found.

He used it like an epicure, poking his viands apart for sharpest scrutiny.

As for the Indian, the hesitating gesture excepted, the strictest scrutiny, or the keenest suspicion could have detected no signs of feeling.

Many of these laws would not stand the rigid scrutiny of the Supreme Court; to many of them the Government's title may now be valid by a kind of "squatter's sovereignty" in legislation,merely so many years of undisputed possession.

Louis put the question suddenly, watching his friend's face with a jealous scrutiny.

After having made the most minute scrutiny of the room in the tower they had every one of the servants in one by one and put them through a most searching examination.

The Colonel was the first to drop his eyes; but the other, pitilessly, like a judge arraigning a felon, his steady scrutiny never flinching: "Do you want that kind of a man round, Colonel?" The Kentuckian turned quickly as if to avoid the stab of the other's eye, and sat hunched together, elbows on knees, head in hands.

She was looking at him with an anxious scrutiny.

As nearly as we could tell from our brief scrutiny a great change had come over the dwellers in southern Belgium.

She seated herself on the bench by the unknown, willing to humour him a little; and he turned himself about slowly, as if every bone in his body were stiff with age, and looked at her with a deliberate scrutiny.

Were they alive today, and willing to submit themselves to scientific scrutiny, the X-ray would tell us of the state of the pituitary and thymus in them, chemical examinations of the blood the condition of the thyroid and adrenals, detailed investigation of the body and mind a flood of light upon their maladies as well as their personalities.

His eyes, accustomed to the gloom, pierced me long with an earnest scrutiny.

A system that cannot withstand the assaults of truththat replies to arguments with threatsthat cannot be "talked about"that flourishes in secrecy and darkness, and dies when brought forth into the light and examined, must in this time of inexorable scrutiny and relentless agitation, be a dangerous one.

No: there had been malice in that, Duchemin was satisfied, if not some darker purpose which perplexed the most patient scrutiny.

A keen, breathless scrutiny, a frenzied clutch with both hands, and then he was upon his feet again, holding close to the lantern the thing he had found.

" My pockets were bulging with papers, which I thrust hurriedly into the lantern-light for a close-eyed scrutiny.

Meanwhile he would himself institute a slight preliminary scrutiny.

"And when and where did you make his acquaintance?" he enquired, with a stern, unsparing scrutiny of the calm face opposite.

He approached the couch not unkindly and stood in preliminary professional scrutiny of his patient.

How was I to pass this double scrutiny?

Not a single branch of the administration of the kingdom escaped their conscientious scrutiny: law, finance, and commerce by turns engaged their attention; and in all these different matters they sought to ameliorate institutions, but never to usurp power.

I marked them all with a calm scrutiny that belongs to terror in some phases.

Thus left to himself, and as effectually screened from remark as if he sat alone, Sir George devoted himself to an eager scrutiny of the night, looking first through one window and then through the other; in which he persevered though darkness had fallen so completely that only the hedges showed in the lamplight, gliding giddily by in endless walls of white.