At that, I got me upon a thwart, intending to take another look over the country about us; but the banks of the creek had become higher; moreover the vegetation acted as a screen, even had my stature and elevation enabled me to overlook the banks.

" "I know you think, Gar'ner, that it will be impossible for us ever to get our craft off; but you overlook one thing that we may dowhat is there to prevent our breaking her up, and of using the materials to make a smaller vessel; one of sixty tons sayin which we might get home, besides taking most of our skins?" "I will not say that will be impossible; but I do say it will be very difficult.

On Mystery Trail - 1921 11 - Tom Slade's Double Dare - 1922 12 - Tom Slade On Overlook Mountain - 1923 13 - Tom Slade Picks a Winner - 1924 14 - Tom Slade At Bear Mountain - 1925 15 - Tom Slade:

Remarks have been passed about my tummy which it is impossible to overlook.

" A nephew's love made me overlook the slur.

The French, sensible of their present weakness, found it prudent to overlook this insult [l].

" "We happen to have a pointer about that same thing," Andy could not help saying, though he hardly liked the superior air of the other, not being able to overlook such things as easily as his cousin did.

Though we have sometimes seen anglers catch more than they need, or sneak ahead of brother fishermen to the best pools, we are glad, for Walton's sake, to overlook such unaccountable exceptions, and agree with the milkmaid that "we love all anglers, they be such honest, civil, quiet men.

Besides, she split against another rock, that she had either chosen to overlook, or the importance of which she had undervalued.

No matter who wrote the Paraphrase, we have the poetry, a fact which critics too often overlook.

I passed along the edge of the mountains where I could easily overlook the village, but it was in many instances impossible to determine by a survey of their external appearances, which were the stables and which the houses or huts, so I counted them all, large and small, and found their number between 60 and 90.

I do not overlook tho fact that I do not pretend to believe I do not question this.

How many gradations there would be in the law I should impose upon myself to overlook them successively and even leisurely?

But speaking of legends, don't overlook the most beautiful, since it is the truest: that of the miracle of St. Nicholas, the ruins of whose church you may have noticed.

V. be inattentive &c adj.; overlook, disregard; pass by &c (neglect) 460; not observe &c 457; think little of.

V. be negligent &c adj.; take no care of &c (take care of) &c 459; neglect; let slip, let go; lay aside, set aside, cst aside, put aside; keep out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of. overlook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at, connive at; gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account of, take no notice of; pay no regard to;

V. not discriminate &c 465; overlook a distinction &c (neglect) 460, confound, confuse.

I believe his intention was sincere; I believe he did not mean to overlook those natural borders, which, besides the affinity of language, God himself has drawn between the nations.

Their only means of safety lay in delivering up the city either to the Carthaginians or to the Romans, both of whom could not but be so strongly set upon acquiring that important place as to overlook all other scruples.

But, whilst I thus eulogize the Ruscombian case, let me not be supposed to overlook the many other specimens of extraordinary merit spread over the face of this century.

At the same time, however disagreeable to the artist, this tendency in murder to excite and irritate the subject, is certainly one of its advantages to the world in general, which we ought not to overlook, since it favors the development of latent talent.

Things that were settled, he said, should remain settled; he was not one for changes; it was a man's task this and no child's play; a boy would not have his senses about him, and might overlook the place.

But this is the grounding, and at the same time pervading, error of the Swedenborgians;that they overlook the distinction between congruity with reason, truth of consistency, or internal possibility of this or that being objectively real, and the objective reality as fact.

It was extremely easy to write blank verse after a fashion; and playwrights who found it flow almost spontaneously from their pens were only too ready to overlook the world-wide difference between their verse and that of the really great Elizabethans.

" "But you said" "We can't overlook anythingthat's what I said.

I often look over the "Personals," for I know well the connection between fortune and the Press.

Even having the surveyor of the company to look over your house before the insurance will not save you, unless your policy is correct."

" "If I do," promised Dave, "I shall merely look over his head when we meet, unless he repeats the offense that brought him that thrashing.

Look over the furniture in the house and telegraph me what condition it is in.

I always wear glasses, but that's to look sage, And not 'cause my eyesight is dim, For when sweet maids I view of a loveable age, I contrive to look over the rim.

You have only to look over such good old books as Williams's "Wild Sports of the East," Campbell's "Old Forest Ranger," Lloyd's "Scandinavian Adventures," and last, but not least, Waterton's "Wanderings," to see what valuable additions to true zoologythe knowledge of live creatures, not merely dead onesBritish sportsmen have made, and still can make.

But on the very next day, John Bellingham called on me with the draft of his will which he wished me to look over before it was executed.

And I had gone to comfort her, but that in the same moment, I saw a naked maid run very swift over the edge of the hollow, and did look over her shoulder, as she ran.

He was up by dawn, and the villagers on their way to their fields sometimes stopped to cast an inquisitive look over his garden palings.

A desire seized upon him to look over into the other valley, and as his knee was giving him no trouble he cut a zigzag course upward that in half an hour brought him almost to the top.

" Axel himself was altogether out of it with these two town-folk; he found it dull with them, and preferred to go out and look over his land.

"And, Phoebe, I want you to go out there this afternoon, and look over Mr. Haverley's linen, and see what ought to be washed or mended, and take general notice of how things are going on.

To look over Wall street is quite another matter, and P. knows how to do it to a T. Many a time at midnight, from his perch on the tip of the spire of Old Trinity, (a tip-top point from which to look over Wall streetyou see the point?) has PUNCHINELLO beheld the ghosts of dead speculations floating hopelessly through the murky air.

I'll go over it, in part, with the author, and let her take it to look over.

When I look over their photographs, now it is like shuffling an old pack of cards which have been played out,they have nearly all gone to the Upper Chamber,in this world or the next.

and cantered off, followed by the rest of us, to the upper part of the field, where we could look over the hedge and see several fields beyond.

The man called Evans came swaying along the canoe until he could look over his companion's shoulder.

When tea was over and we walked out on the lawn on the north side of the house to look over the field of the battle in which most of them had taken part, they were all ready to talkthey were on ground they knew.

We had hardly got that over when the adjutant came back to look over the ground again, and see if it were not possible to canton a demi-section in the granges.

I was asked to look over his papers, but there was not a private memorandum among themnot one; there was nothing in fact but receipted bills.

RAISINS.Carefully look over and wash a cupful of pearl barley.

The special inspector was kept so busy for the next week that he never had time to look over the winter drift and strays, which now numbered nearly two thousand cattle.

He presently went to inspect the repairs and restorations, to look over the garden and the stables; and it was not till the next morning that she found occasion to ask some advice of him.

Even by standing on tip-toe she could not look over them, and she dared not try to raise the sash.

By-and-by, he said he should have to go up to the library, and look over the last of some books of my uncle's, and finish an inventory that he had begun.