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Mr. Pickwick stood in the principal street of this illustrious town, and gazed with an air of curiosity, not unmixed with interest, on the objects around him.
The young ladies were pretty, their manners winning, their dispositions unexceptionable; but there was a dignity in the air, a touch-me-not-ishness in the walk, a majesty in the eye, of the spinster aunt, to which, at their time of life, they could lay no claim, which distinguished her from any female on whom Mr. Tupman had ever gazed.
Mr. Tupman gazed on the fat boy, and the fat boy stared at him; and the longer Mr. Tupman observed the utter vacancy of the fat boy's countenance, the more convinced he became that he either did not know, or did not understand, anything that had been going forward.
Mr. Pickwick stopped, and gazed on each of his friends in turn.
'Tom gazed at the chair; and, suddenly as he looked at it, a most extraordinary change seemed to come over it.
If their most intense gratification had been awakened by seeing him wheeled in, how many hundredfold was their joy increased when, after a few indistinct cries of 'Sam!' he sat up in the barrow, and gazed with indescribable astonishment on the faces before him.
He fell backward in his chair, and, clasping his hands together, gazed on the apparition with a mingled look of abhorrence and fear.
Mr. Magnus started; gazed on Mr. Pickwick's intelligent face, for a short time in silence; and then (the dial pointing to the ten minutes past) shook him warmly by the hand, and rushed desperately from the room.
As Mr. Pickwick bowed, he took his spectacles from his waistcoat pocket, and put them on; a process which he had no sooner gone through, than, uttering an exclamation of surprise, Mr. Pickwick retreated several paces, and the lady, with a half-suppressed scream, hid her face in her hands, and dropped into a chair; whereupon Mr. Peter Magnus was stricken motionless on the spot, and gazed from one to the other, with a countenance expressive of the extremities of horror and surprise.
The Pickwickians gazed on each other with wondering eyes.
Dismay and anguish were depicted on every countenance; the males turned pale, and the females fainted; Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle grasped each other by the hand, and gazed at the spot where their leader had gone down, with frenzied eagerness; while Mr. Tupman, by way of rendering the promptest assistance, and at the same time conveying to any persons who might be within hearing, the clearest possible notion of the catastrophe, ran off across the country at his utmost speed, screaming 'Fire!' with all his might.
There was a sympathising expression, too, in the features of Mr. Ben Allen, as he gazed intently on the coals, and a tone of melancholy in his voice, as he said, after a long silence--'Well, it is unlucky she should have taken it in her head to turn sour, just on this occasion.
Mr. Pickwick put on his spectacles, and gazed at the foreman with an agitated countenance and a quickly-beating heart.
Mr. Benjamin Allen gazed abstractedly on his friend for some minutes in silence, and then said--'You have never proposed to her, point-blank, Bob?''No.
Suddenly aware that he was in the presence of a stranger, Mr. Ben Allen advanced and, shaking Mr. Winkle most affectionately by both hands for about five minutes, murmured, in some half-intelligible fragments of sentences, the great delight he felt in seeing him, and a hospitable inquiry whether he felt disposed to take anything after his walk, or would prefer waiting 'till dinner-time;' which done, he sat down and gazed about him with a petrified stare, as if he had not the remotest idea where he was, which indeed he had not.
He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful.
"You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he held up the lantern and gazed about him.
He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective fashion which was characteristic of him.
Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment.
Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it.
"You can call it what you like," Tarvin told her, while she gazed at the moon; "you can call it duty, or you can call it woman's sphere, or you can call it, as that meddling missionary called it at church to-night, 'carrying the light to them that sit in darkness.'
He forced her to turn her face to him, and gazed wistfully into her eyes for a moment.
It ended in his making her take his arm, and then they stood and rocked together with the motion of the train, Tarvin steadying their position with outstretched legs, while they gazed up at the monster spires and sovereign hills of stone wavering and dizzying over their heads.
She gazed a moment affectionately into the liquid depths of the brilliant.
Tarvin gazed about him dispiritedly for the blue and white sign of the Western Union, or its analogue in this queer land.
Kate gazed long after his retreating figure, and then took herself into the house, where a warm, healthful chat with Mrs. Estes, chiefly about the children at Bangor, helped her to a sane view of the situation she must face with the reappearance of Tarvin.
He stopped, and gazed ruefully at her for a moment.
The commercial travellers came out one by one, gazed at the walled bulk of Rhatore, and cursed it.
The man from Topaz gazed at him shrewdly, filled with his purpose.
She gazed over Tarvin's shoulder at the two cuts of Topaz which appeared in every issue of the "Telegram," the one representing the town in its first year, the other the town of to-day, and a lump rose in her throat.
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