One of them he held up to the light in order to inspect it more minutely.

The Colonel was a big tanned fellow, nearly fortyeldest of the partywhom the others used to guy discreetly, because you couldn't mention a place anywhere on the known globe, except the far north, which he had not personally inspected.

And you consider me somewhat better-looking than she is!" He inspected her critically, and was confirmed in his opinion.

Gravely he inspected all the portraits of his feminine ancestors that he might decide, as one without bias, whether Matocton had ever boasted a more delectable mistress.

" They duly inspected the marsh where Obed hunted his big greenback frogs when he thought the crop warranted a thinning out.

But further, a Man whose extraordinary Reputation thus lifts him up to the Notice and Observation of Mankind draws a Multitude of Eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every Part of him, consider him nicely in all Views, and not be a little pleased when they have taken him in the worst and most disadvantageous Light.

" "How do I know they did not try?" "Perhaps we'd better ask the Administrator to come and inspect this place officially and put the exact facts on the record," Goodenough retorted.

Piggy Wadsworth, the plump owner of the dance-hall, legs widespread and arms akimbo, was inspecting the red stain thoughtfully.

Maggie hastily inspected the contents of the green box, and having satisfied herself that it was all there, she laid it up, high and dry, on the clock shelf.

Schoelcher calmly inspected the overturned vehicles.

Instantly at the high windows of mysterious houses veiled heads appeared and sidelong eyes cautiously inspected us.

In these moments of abstraction she inspected him curiously.

" Thorndyke and I sat down opposite the lawyer and his client, and we mutually inspected one another.

There have been regiments formed of thirteen companies, instead of ten; but it was found, that as the officers of a company may be over-charged with soldiers, a colonel may likewise have more companies than he can conveniently inspect, and the ancient regulation was restored, as the least liable to difficulties and objections.

He inspected the silent figure at his side ingenuously, almost quizzically; as in his schoolboy days he had inspected his plodding master of physics before propounding a query no mortal could answer.

She paused and inspected him almost insolently.

Howard shifted in his saddle seat and inspected the ground at his right as intently as though there might be jewels scattered about.

This clause should be jealously inspected, otherwise great annoyance may be produced.

" They introduced themselves to the immobile-featured Celestial when they had jointly and severally inspected the house from top to bottom.

Here they regard you curiously, stifle a yawn, languidly inspect your papers and send you to the Paymaster, who, after wandering disconsolately round the Pay Office, exclaiming pathetically, "I say, hasn't anyone seen that Mixed Muster book?

He met one of the gardeners, whom he promised to bring some of the nobles to inspect a special kind of blue lily, in which the gardener took great pride.

Perchance he inspected the juvenile wardrobe of the future Empress of his own Germany.

He inspected the silent figure at his side ingenuously, almost quizzically; as in his schoolboy days he had inspected his plodding master of physics before propounding a query no mortal could answer.

(l) The chambers of rifles are frequently neglected because they are not readily inspected.

He visited the Moros and the Bukidnons in the south, and the Negritos, the Benguet Igorots, the Lepanto Igorots, the Bontoc Igorots, the Ilongots, the Ifugaos, the Kalingas, and both the wild and the civilized Tingians, in the north, repeatedly inspecting the several sub-provinces of the Mountain Province.