Diana could not resist a sigh of relief as her observant glance noted this detail.

The two regarded one another in silence a moment, Miss De Graf's frank eyes covering the other with a comprehensive sweep while Miss Von Taer's narrowed gaze, profoundly observant, studied the beautiful girl before her with that impenetrable, half-hidden gleam that precluded any solution.

Arthur Weldon had been her first and only declared admirer, and no one living had studied his peculiar nature more critically than this observant girl.

"Why do you ask?" "Jealousy," Norgate sighed, "makes one observant.

That afternoon I marked out my corn-field, driving the mare to my home-made wooden marker, carefully observant of the straightness of the rows; for a crooked corn-row is a sort of immorality.

The savages and barbarians, who are the principal inhabitants of hot countries, are seldom observant of the habits or the voices of the singing-birds.

"General Lee is known to the world as a military man; but it is easy to divine from his history how mindful of all just authority, how observant of all constitutional restriction, would have been his career as a civilian.

He had completely lost, in his own case, the keen power of diagnosis of the observant physician, and if he still continued to reason about it, it was only to confound and pervert symptoms, under the influence of the moral and physical depression into which he had fallen.

Besides, if Moll's in trouble, how am I to pretend I know nothing of the matter and care less, and this Mother Butterby and a parcel of sly, observant servants about to surprise one at any moment?

But the observant eyes of the spinster detected what had escaped the cooper and his wife, in their joy at Ida's return.

The only contemporary portrait (and this is very doubtful) is in a picture in the Louvre given to Uccelloa serious, thoughtful, bearded face with steady, observant eyes: one of five heads, the others being Giotto, Manetti, Brunelleschi, and Uccello himself.

she's grown up rather good-looking, Jem?" "You are observant," said Mr. Hardy, admiringly.

"These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness, Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends, Than twenty silly ducking observants.

"This kind of knaves I know, who in this plainness Harbour more craft, and hide corrupter ends, Than twenty silly ducking observants.

Natasha watched her face following the symptoms of unconsciousness, and when she was convinced that sleep had finally taken complete possession of her, and that for several hours the old woman was deprived of the power to hear anything or to wake up, she slowly moved her chair nearer the bedstead, and without taking her quietly observant eyes from the old woman's face, softly slipped her hand under the lower pillow.

A keen awareness of life suffused her now and made her observant of everything about her.

ArtistsSomoff and Benois and Dobujinsky; novelists like Sologub and Merejkowsky; dancers like Karsavinaactors from all over Petrogradthey were there, I expect, to add criticism and argument to the adulation of friends and of the carelessly observant rich Jews and merchants who had come simply to display their jewellery.

Very observant.

The body was gone, it was true, but as he turned he beheld Miss Porter, at a few paces distant, sitting her horse as energetic and observant as on the first morning they had met.

Gradually her breath grew more rapid and hysterical, her smarting eyes became humid, and at last, encountering two observant horsemen in the road, she turned and fled, until, reaching the wood, she began to cry.

The Franciscan friar, Garcias de Padilla, was made Bishop of Santo Domingo, the capital of Hispaniola; the doctor Pedro Suarez Deza was appointed to Concepcion, and for the island of San Juan, the licenciate Alonzo Mauso was named; both these latter being observants of the congregation of St. Peter.

At that he lowered his head and maintained a fiercely observant silence.

When the Coquette had tacked, the calm and observant Skimmer was satisfied with throwing his head-sails flat to the mast.

It would have been difficult to trace the emotions of the stern but observant free-trader, as he watched the progress of this scene.

He was really a clever, observant man, and Cecil had not had any one to talk Italy to her for a long time past, and responded with all her full precision.