He also knew that if he stood where he was, perfectly still, the bear would get uncomfortable under his stare, and would retreat from him.

Grumps was there, and all that Grumps did was to sit on his haunches and stare at Fan and Crusoe, and wag his tail as well as he could in so awkward a position!

If people trod upon him accidentally, which they often did, Grumps uttered a solitary heart-rending yell proportioned in intensity to the excruciating nature of the torture he endured, then instantly resumed his position and his fascinated stare.

He turned in his saddle to stare wonderingly at her.

Sheila's little face looked out of the whipped windows with a pinched and shrinking stare.

all I know is, that I can draw pleasure from the mere sight of you, as, perhaps, you do from the mere sight of me; so let us sit together, Nature and I, and stare into each other's eyes like two young lovers, careless of the morrow and its griefs.'

I cannot describe her either as to feature, or color of her hair, or of her eyes; she was so young, so fair, so ethereal, that I felt to stare at her would be a violation; yet I was distinctly conscious of her beauty.

My glance immediately turned into a stare.

I felt her hand grow cold, and when I looked up, she was gazing at me with a wild, fixed stare as though I was some object she had never seen.

Joseph sat on a bench, with bent shoulders, and was dreaming with fixt gaze into the west, as seamen stare across the interminable wave at the pale green horizons that are like the grassy shores of home.

Robin's first act was to stand and stare, for the heap consisted of bales similar to those with which he had seen the mules laden a couple of days back, and tied up together a few yards away were the very mules, while the little crowd of men who were busy bore a very strong resemblance to those by whom the attack was made on the previous day.

We send abroad gigantic stories of huge antediluvian lizards, 'larger than the largest size,' and we ourselves are kept upon the stare at our own wonders from Georgia to Maine, until we find out we have been exulting over the stranded remains of a common spermaceti whale.

A show they want, they come to gape and stare.

His audacity so astonished me that in silence I could only stare at him and walk on.

Aunt Cynthia looked at me with her childlike convent stare.

She met his stare, on this evening, with eyes clouded with tears.

" Huckstep came swearing on: when within a few yards of Harry he stopped, looked at him with a stare of mingled rage and drunken imbecility; and bid him throw down his hoe and come forward.

She could do nothing but stare at him.

" The strange look in his face made old Donald stare.

"I always told Ned that no woman could stand him," said Susanna, with sodden vivacity, after a pause, during which Marian had to endure her astonished stare.

and what have you done with her?" The party on the steps ceased chatting and began to stare.

Of course her story was known to all the domestics, half a dozen of whom quickly collected to stare at her, with more or less malicious smiles.

I've got to stare this town out of countenance.

"Shak. 3. Verbs made nouns: "Avaunt all attitude, and stare, and start theatric."Cowper.

There will be royalty for my wife; German officers for Bee; heaps of people for you to stare at, and as for me, I don't need any attraction.