though he was, and used to summing up strangers at a glance, he could not quite make out who Rolfe might be.

" She knew them at a glance, had read them many times, but now they came home to her with sudden force, and, seeing that his eye had followed hers, she said in her impulsive fashion.

"They seem perfect," he said as, after surveying the exterior, he entered and looked down the long reach of stalls and loose boxes, many of which were occupied, as he saw at a glance, by valuable animals.

She can tell a genuine Old Master at a glance, and she knows a lot about diamondsher father was in that trade at one time, out in South Africa.

I took in the situation at a glance, and, releasing my brake, I let the old bike have her head.

Indeed, if we compare this serio-comic exaggeration of the Carle with the purely comic picture of Don Armado given by Holofernes, we shall see at a glance that both depict the same object of ridicule.

At a glance, Merry saw that Bloodgood was "shakey."

'Twill be pleasant to see him wonder and guessmy life on it, however, that he knows me at a glance.

Whatever fears I had felt were quickly banished, for he seemed, at a glance, to divine my situation, and let drop no word that would have aroused suspicion as to the truth.

When I was on land a little while, I noticed in front of a few houses, walks, that I knew at a glance were made from clam-shells.

"You spotted him at a glance.

All this was seen at a glance, and almost at once I concluded that I could not jump the crevass and began to try along the cliff lower down, but without success, for the ice rose higher and higher until at last farther progress was stopt by the cliffs becoming perfectly smooth.

Or again let the village hand-loom weaver be pitted against the Bombay Mill-owner, and we see at a glance that under certain circumstances it pays infinitely better to do things on a large than on a small scale, and that in so doing the amount of labour and risk are also economised.

He saw that at a glance, and drew his own conclusions.

A little later he managed to read at a glance: Meet the old military man you saw me with last evening.

He turned at the shouting, and seemed to take in the whole thing at a glance; but he strolled along as slowly as ever.

In tracing the history of women's rights in the United States my plan will be this: I shall first give a general review of the various movements connected with the subject; and I shall then lay before the reader a series of tables, wherein may be seen at a glance the status of women to-day in the various States.

And any one with a keen, penetrating eye for physiognomy can grasp the general character of his whole being at a glance.

We can, however, see at a glance the weakness of any argument which contends that because the name and even the general duties of the tax gatherer were the same in each case, that the whole system of administration of the taxes or of the community were necessarily identical or even closely allied in character.

But whereas his smooth, silent, secret face remained with me, and I knew him at a glance, it was, I judged, clean impossible that he could know the beardless stripling in the mustached leader of soldiers, walking well-accustomed and unafraid through palaces.

It was to this bewitching picture, "with the perfume and light as of a goddess of love," that Jean du Barry, self-styled Comte, adventurer and roué, succumbed at a glance.

[Illustration: "The beauty of her teeth"] All this I saw at a glance, and immediately afterwards I also perceived that she had most beautiful teeth; for when she beheld me as I rose from my chair and stood in my elevated position before her she could not restrain a laugh; but for this apparent impoliteness I did not blame her at all.

At a glance I took in all the bearings of the scenethe table with its untasted dessert; the shaded lamp; the closed curtains of red damask; the thoughtful figure in the easy chair.

I recognized in this sable assistant (or thought I recognized at a glance)

On the opposite side of the chimney from these inscrutable guests sat two ladies, elaborately dressed and rouged, in whom I recognized at a glance Evelyn Erle and Mrs. Raymond.