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Glance in sentence

762 examples of Glance in a sentence

But her voice choked; she had followed her neighbour's glance, and her eyes also fell on the bottle.
And as M. Hennebeau went back into the middle of the room, giving a glance at each article of furniture, he noticed in the open bed a bright point which shone like a star.
She was frozen at the thought that a glance between the planks of that disjointed door might suffice to murder them.
They wished to find out, and went back into the hall to venture a glance through the glass panel of the door.
And they began again, in a row, each taking his glance as at a peep-show.
Towards eight o'clock Dansaert passed to give a glance at the work.
And the glance she cast round her slowly fell upon the old man in the cassock.
Emma bit her wan lips, and rolling between her fingers a piece of coral that she had broken, fixed on Charles the burning glance of her eyes like two arrows of fire about to dart forth.
"You must," he said, throwing a satisfied glance all round him, even to the very extremity of the landscape, "hold the bottle perpendicularly on the table, and after the strings are cut, press up the cork with little thrusts, gently, gently, as indeed they do seltzer-water at restaurants."
Emma read with a glance that all her furniture was for sale.
His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences.
Julien went after them from force of habit, without so much as a glance at M. de Renal, whom he left in a state of intense annoyance.
As she watched him go, overwhelmed by the sombre pride which she read in that glance, so friendly the evening before, her eldest son, who came running up from the other end of the garden, said to her as he embraced her:'We have a holiday, M. Julien is going on a journey.'
What charm, what nobility dwells in that woman's glance!'
Presently, seeing that this solitary glance was not repeated, she took alarm: 'Can it be that he does not love me any more,' she asked herself; 'alas, I am far too old for him; I am ten years his senior.'
These gentlemen, yielding in spite of themselves to Julien's imperious glance, surrendered it to him.
While this rival's head was lowered as he familiarly poured himself out a glass of brandy upon the counter, with a glance Amanda ordered Julien to lower his gaze.
The sole feeling that Julien's rapid glance could discern in that long, smug face was a profound contempt for every subject that might be mentioned to him, which did not refer to another and a better world.
At length the man stopped writing, and with a sidelong glance at Julien asked:'Are you in a fit state to answer my questions?''Yes, Sir,' said Julien in a feeble voice.
This is the abbe Pirard's favourite,' exclaimed the Bishop, with a laugh, and with a glance at M. de Frilair; 'we ought to have expected this; but it is all in fair play.
A glance from a woman was enough to terrify me.
The Marquise barely deigned to glance at him.
When the party tired of discussing poets, the Marquise, who made it a rule to admire anything that amused her husband, condescended to glance at Julien.
Mathilde's glance derided Altamira's Liberalism to M. de Croisenois, but she listened to him with pleasure.
Look at Principe d'Araceli; every five minutes he casts a glance at his Golden Fleece; he cannot get over the pleasure of seeing that trinket on his breast.
After a long glance at him, she slowly left the room.
Besides, when these gentlemen say anything which they consider clever and startling, is not their first glance always at Julien?
Her glance, which was so sparkling, took on all the expressionless pride of an old family portrait.
Julien was overjoyed, he had not known what to say to her.'If all this is not a trick arranged with Comte Norbert, plainly it must have been my frigid glance that has kindled the freakish love which this girl of noble birth has taken it into her head to feel for me.
She was strolling with him at the moment of this unfortunate utterance; she left him, and her final glance was expressive of the most bitter scorn.
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