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Glance in sentence

762 examples of Glance in a sentence

But she read me at a glance, and there in an instant was a little moleskin purse with a silver clasp thrust into my hand.
But suddenly he staggered up to his feet, and pulled his shirt to, with a quick suspicious glance at us.
He turned at the shouting, and seemed to take in the whole thing at a glance; but he strolled along as slowly as ever.
'Nay,' says the alderman, taking him short, 'now you contradict yourself, for just now you said she was in the shop with her back to you, and did not see you till you came upon her.'Now it was true that my back was partly to the street, but yet as my business was of a kind that required me to have my eyes every way, so I really had a glance of him running over, as I said before, though he did not perceive it.
Nobody speaks, nobody stays there, all hurry about their business with bent heads, stepping out rapidly, without taking a single glance at the shops.
Then he cast a glance into the Port aux Vins as he went past, and after that counted the cabs coming from the station.
This penetrating glance troubled the young woman, who, nevertheless, gave a forced smile, and after exchanging a few words with Laurent and her husband, hurried away to join her aunt, feeling ill at ease.
She did not move, she did not cast a glance at Laurent, who stood erect behind her.
As he spoke, Olivier looked at him fixedly, and with so straight a glance that he terrified him.
As Laurent went off, he exchanged a rapid glance with Therese, a glance full of urgent enjoinment.
At times, he could not prevent himself casting a side glance at the canvas; and, then, in the depth of the darkness, he still perceived the dull, deadened eyes of the drowned man.
Therese cast a deep, grave glance at him.
Not daring to move, they half blinded themselves staring at the scorching flames, and, when unable to resist any longer, they cast a timid glance aside, their eyes irritated by the glowing coal, created the vision, and conveyed to it a reddish glow.
She barely, at long intervals, cast a glance into the arcade, and was particularly at her ease in cloudy weather, when it was dark and she could conceal her lassitude in the gloom.
It was particularly for her beloved children that she placed all her gratitude, all the affection of her soul into a simple glance.
The impotent woman cast a terrible glance at the old clerk, and returned to the word she wished to write.
But he failed to get even a glance from her.
He, showing no astonishment when he saw them, stood still with his head bent down upon his breast like one in deep thought, without raising his eyes to look at them after the first glance when they suddenly came upon him.
I don't know what sort of folk they can be, so unfeeling and heartless, that rather than bestow a glance upon a worthy man they leave him to die or go mad.
"Very good, so be it," said the squire; but in the meantime a man had got out of the coach whose dress indicated at a glance the office and post he held, for the long robe with ruffled sleeves that he wore showed that he was, as his servant said, a Judge of appeal.
At the poor man people only throw a hasty glance; on the rich man they fix their eyes; and if the said rich man was once on a time poor, it is then there is the sneering and the tattle and spite of backbiters; and in the streets here they swarm as thick as bees."
"He would be wanting in wits, senora countess," said the duke, "who did not perceive your worth by your person, for at a glance it may be seen it deserves all the cream of courtesy and flower of polite usage;" and raising her up by the hand he led her to a seat beside the duchess, who likewise received her with great urbanity.
He passed the wine, coughed twice, and looked at the stranger for several seconds with a stern intensity; as that individual, however, appeared perfectly collected, and quite calm under his searching glance, he gradually relaxed, and reverted to the subject of the ball.
If I could have entertained any doubt of it, for an instant, one glance at the woman's pale face and wasted form would have sufficiently explained the real state of the case.
'And--and that person, too, if I am not mistaken,' said the doctor, bestowing a scrutinising glance on the green-coated stranger.
Mr. Pickwick had bestowed a hasty glance on these interesting objects, when he was again greeted by his faithful disciple.
'I should, if their aunt wasn't here,' replied the ready Pickwickian, with a passionate glance.
Many a look was turned towards him, and many a doubtful glance he cast on either side to see whether any knew and shunned him.
Mr. Pickwick paused, and looked steadily on Mr. Winkle, who quailed beneath his leader's searching glance.
Not a word, not a look, not a glance, did he bestow upon his heart's pride of the evening before.
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