582 examples of lookout in sentences

Dismounting, he looked at his watch and made a pretense of tinkering with the engine, while Jane kept a sharp lookout on the main thoroughfare, by which they expected the Hoffs to approach.

Keep a sharp lookout for tire tracks leaving the main road.

There was an hour and a few minutes, I found, to wait for the next train, and that time I occupied as best I might, keeping a sharp lookout across the quadrangle.

"I must keep a lookout at each station, in case our friend goes off unexpectedly.

Between ourselvesI don't mind telling youI'm having a sharp lookout kept over there"Plummer jerked his head in the direction of Mr. Woollett's chambers"because the robbery's an unusual one.

During the day our companions were on the lookout from both ends of the cars.

This manso the legend runsis on the lookout for unusual personalities.

Tom Edwards, a young foretopman, had the lee lookout, and as seven bells struck he sang out, 'Lee cat-head;' but the last syllable died away on his lips as his eyes rested upon an objecta white objectstanding bolt upright in the water before him, about a hundred yards distant and broad off on the lee bow.

I was on the lookout for the taint, the abnormal signs, of vice.

No, he didn't need no lookout, so I got myself into a game of "bounce the stick," which same, as you prob'ly know, is purely a redskin recreation.

Coming down to a later date, perhaps no event of its character has attracted so much comment, and been the subject, of more gross misrepresentation than the "Lookout Lynching."

In the course of time Hall sold the sawmill and settled on a piece of land not far from the present town of Lookout.

They were taken to Lookout and a guard placed over them.

They then applied to the District Attorney to go to Lookout and prosecute the criminals.

Disinterested men were brought from Tule Lake to prove that the boy Hutton was on his way to Lookout from that place when the lynching took place.

At the porter's lodge that functionary frequently left his little room, with its brazier of glowing coals, and walked up and down beneath the porte-cochère, flapping his arms vigorously in the biting wintry air, and glancing between the bars of the great outer gate up and down the road as if on the lookout for some person or persons.

"In Tennessee we stayed at the foot of Lookout Mountain and I can remember seein' the cannon balls.

But she was fairly well handled, and in due course of time she approached so near the coast that her lookout sighted land, which land Cardatas, consulting his chart, concluded must be one of the Patagonian islands to the north of the Gulf of Penas.

As night came on, Cardatas determined to change his course somewhat to the south, as he did not care to trust himself too near the coast, when suddenly the lookout reported a light on the port bow.

But then that is not my lookout.

] PONTIAC'S LOOKOUT.

Panting from her long walk, Jenieve came out of the woods upon a grassy open cliff, called by the islanders Pontiac's Lookout, because the great war chief used to stand on that spot, forty years before, and gaze southward, as if he never could give up his hope of the union of his people.

Pontiac's Lookout had been the spot from which she watched her father's bateau disappear behind Round Island.

She had heard that, though his bones had been buried forty years beside the Mississippi, he yet came back to the Lookout every night during that summer month when all the tribes assembled at the island to receive money from a new government.

But Jenieve could sit and spin in solitude all day, and think of that chill silver face she had seen at Pontiac's Lookout, and the floating away of the figure, a phosphorescent bar through the trees, and of that spoken word which had denounced the French and Indians as good for nothing.

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