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Stared in sentence

236 examples of Stared in a sentence

Ben stared a moment and then said: "_Hi-Yi!
The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly.
So he lay still, and stared up into the dark.
Then he betook himself to his seat, rested his elbows on his desk and his jaws in his hands, and stared at the wall with the stony stare of suffering that has reached the limit and can no further go.
First one and then another pair of eyes followed the minister's, and then almost with one impulse the congregation rose and stared while the three dead boys came marching up the aisle, Tom in the lead, Joe next, and Huck, a ruin of drooping rags, sneaking sheepishly in the rear!
The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly.
Injun Joe sat up, stared around--smiled grimly upon his comrade, whose head was drooping upon his knees--stirred him up with his foot and said:"Here!
Tom and Huck rose up, weak but vastly relieved, and stared after them through the chinks between the logs of the house.
Right yonder's where I saw Injun Joe poke up his candle, Huck!"Huck stared at the mystic sign awhile, and then said with a shaky voice:"Tom, less git out of here!"
Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted, admired, stared at.
"One learns to behave," says I."Ah, but, Jack, I liked you so much better as you were!"Well, when she said that I fairly stared at her, for I had thought that she could never have quite forgiven me for the way I used to carry on.
Then suddenly he stuck in his speech, and stared with his mouth open over my shoulder.
Jim and I stood staring, but we stared the more when out came the Major, with a great quart pot in his hand, and at his heels his old sister who kept house for him, and two of the maids, and all four began capering about round the fire.
Jim Horscroft and I stood and stared at each other.
My mother stared, for she thought he was making fun of her; but Cousin Edie fell into it in an instant, as though it had been a game, and away she went in a great curtsy until I thought she would have had to give it up, and sit down right there in the middle of the kitchen floor.
Never in my life did I look upon so astonished a face, and he stared at our friend for a long minute without so much as a word.
De Lapp started, and stared again at our neighbour.
I turned my eyes on the keep, for it looked so fine with the flush of the level sun beating full upon it and the blue sea stretching out behind; and as I stared, I suddenly saw the face of a man twinkle for a moment in one of the holes in the wall.
But I can tell you that I stared when I saw that it was none other than Major Elliott that had roused me up.
When the young woman heard the sound of his voice, she started, and stared at him with eyes wide open.
The men who had first of all stared her in the face, turned round to take a back view.
The hostess, her daughter, and the worthy Maritornes listened in bewilderment to the words of the knight-errant; for they understood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of good-will and blandishments; and not being accustomed to this kind of language, they stared at him and wondered to themselves, for he seemed to them a man of a different sort from those they were used to, and thanking him in pothouse phrase for his civility they left him, while the Asturian gave her attention to Sancho, who needed it no less than his master.
They then posted themselves on the level ground at the outlet of the Sierra, and as soon as Don Quixote and his companions emerged from it the curate began to examine him very deliberately, as though he were striving to recognise him, and after having stared at him for some time he hastened towards him with open arms exclaiming, "A happy meeting with the mirror of chivalry, my worthy compatriot Don Quixote of La Mancha, the flower and cream of high breeding, the protection and relief of the distressed, the quintessence of knights-errant!"
The youth rubbed his sleepy eyes and stared for a while at him who held him, but presently recognised him as one of his father's servants, at which he was so taken aback that for some time he could not find or utter a word; while the servant went on to say, "There is nothing for it now, Senor Don Luis, but to submit quietly and return home, unless it is your wish that my lord, your father, should take his departure for the other world, for nothing else can be the consequence of the grief he is in at your absence."
Lady Clubber took a telescopic view of Mrs. Smithie and family through her eye-glass and Mrs. Smithie stared in her turn at Mrs. Somebody-else, whose husband was not in the dockyard at all.
That gentleman started, stared, retreated, rubbed his eyes, stared again, and, finally, shouted, 'Stop, stop!''What's all this?' said Doctor Slammer, as his friend and Mr. Snodgrass came running up; 'that's not the man.''Not the man!' said Doctor Slammer's second.
He started up, and stared eagerly in my face.
He stared wildly at her, with a look of deadly apprehension, and then whispered in my ear,"I beat her, Jem; I beat her yesterday, and many times before.
There were insects, too, hideous crawling things, with eyes that stared upon him, and filled the very air around, glistening horribly amidst the thick darkness of the place.
The horse paused, stared, shook his head, turned round, and quietly trotted home to Rochester, leaving Mr. Winkle and Mr. Pickwick gazing on each other with countenances of blank dismay.
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