"Scrutinize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over the candle to scrutinize the shading of her silks, the hollow sound of hoofs broke upon the silence, and in a minute afterwards ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... think out, reflect, meditate on, deliberate, , CP: examine, penetrate, scrutinize, look closely into, : ...
— A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary - For the Use of Students • John R. Clark Hall
... time later was on his way toward The Towers of Jetan, which he had no difficulty in finding owing to the great crowds that were winding along the avenues toward the games. The new keeper of The Towers who had succeeded E-Med was too busy to scrutinize entries closely, for in addition to the many volunteer players there were scores of slaves and prisoners being forced into the games by their owners or the government. The name of each must be recorded as well as the position he was to play and the game or games ...
— The Chessmen of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... lonely woman bent over to scrutinize the distorted, burning face, and softly took into her cool palms one hot and swollen hand, which in other days she had admiringly stroked, and tenderly pressed against her cheek and lips. How totally unlike that countenance, which, handsome as Apollyon, had looked ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... corridor before. The court was quiet; my eye ran to the little window—at a glance I saw it had not its usual appearance. A light cambric handkerchief, with lace border, was pinned across it from side to side; and just at the moment that I began to scrutinize what seemed to me like a coronet stitched on the corner, a couple of delicate fingers reached over the hem, removed the fastening, first on one side, then on the other—the handkerchief ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
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