Those who are disposed to scrutinize narrowly and severely into the human heart, may question the sincerity of his sorrow, because he was collected enough to write her funeral sermon.

" It was not a very nice remark, but it had the effect of bracing the other up, and moving forward a little more he began anxiously scrutinizing Martin's face.

You will find, if you scrutinize the matter minutely, that its tenure proved of great value to the city.

"Thus I suppose my innocent epistles are severely scrutinized; and when I talk of my grandchildren, they are fancied to represent all the potentates of Europe.

The old man scrutinized Hewitt's face sharply.

My "paper face" was examined as suspiciously as though I had had the appearance of a travestied Achilles; and M's, which has as little expression as a Chinese painting, was elaborately scrutinized by a Dogberry in spectacles, who, perhaps, fancied she had the features of a female Machiavel.

Then she scrutinized my face calmly, critically.

" The captain set down his bag, leaned on his stick, deliberately scrutinized the other man.

She stopped presently before a jeweller's and watchmaker's shop in the Brick Row, and eagerly scrutinized the long line of clocks standing in the window.

A pair of violet eyes was scrutinizing him gravely over the edge of it.

"Nor do we charge ourselves," says Edward Irving, "with the defence of those backslidings which David more keenly scrutinized and more bitterly lamented than any of his censors, because they were necessary, in a measure, that he might be the full-orbed man to utter every form of spiritual feeling.

"Nice-looking people," said Miss Lavinia, meditatively scrutinizing the room through her lorgnette without a trace of snobbery in her voice or attitude, yet I was aware that she was mentally drawing herself apart.

" "We'll discover that," asserted the Major, shrewdly scrutinizing the letter, which he had taken from Patsy's hands.

No one of my acquaintance has ever alluded to it," continued she, half laughing, half crying, "but I see them trying to scrutinize it slyly when they are not observed.

People either scrutinized them suspiciously, or mon Dieu!

" Placing upon his nose a pair of vast silver spectacles, which gave him an aspect of having two attic windows in his countenance, the landlord bowed his head over the plate until his nose touched the beans, and thoughtfully scrutinized the living raisin.

As I turned the matter over in my mind, I half unconsciously scrutinized my visitorsomewhat to his embarrassmentand I liked his appearance as little as I liked his mission.

Wistfully he scrutinized the lists of arrivals at the different houses day after day, for the familiar names; but they were not to be found.

As she scrutinized it wonderingly, she was conscious of an humble, apologetic voice murmuring something at her elbow: "Forgive me, Anna Iurievna.

She continued to scrutinize her husband broodingly.

Then she scrutinized my face calmly, critically.

It is quite as dangerous to give up your faculties to the guidance of the author you are perusing, as it is unprofitable to be captiously scrutinizing every syllable he may happen to advance; and Sir Edward was, if anything, a little inclined to the dangerous propensity.

" The fat man coldly scrutinized Priam's appearance, from his greenish hat to his baggy creased boots.

He continually scrutinized and questioned his own motives and those of others.