How To Use Look upon In A Sentence

Only when I had repented, that is to say, when I had ceased to look upon myself as a regular man, and had begun to regard myself as a man exactly like every one else, -- only then did my path become clear before me. What to Do?
Day after day I have obtained more satisfactory results, and now I look upon Apis mellifica as the greatest polychrest, next to Aconite, which we possess. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
They add that, although it is loathly and horrible to look upon, being in the form of a skeleton, I yet give it especial honour and call it in the Greek tongue, basileus, my king. The Defense
To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain; 'and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr Martin Chuzzlewit
He again applied his eye to the glass, and turning his ear to the partition, listened attentively: with a subtle and eager look upon his face, that might have appertained to some old goblin. Oliver Twist

You see, most human beings," and he ran a hand down his Neanderthaloid body, "find me unpleasant to look upon. The Man Who Used the Universe
He increased his feigned ardour for the bushwoman, at the same time increasing the imperiousness of his will of desire over her to be led to look upon the Red One face to face. THE RED ONE
Krishna devotees ardently look upon him as the Godhead, more emotively evocative than most of the other avatars.
[422] Note in passing that this marks the beginning in general of the universal chronography of history, and consequently of the general Christian outlook upon the entire course of human history. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
As far as I know, none but the votaries of monotheistic, that is to say, Jewish religions, look upon suicide as a crime. Studies in Pessimism
About 125 years later, the town erected an enormous, life-sized model of the squid, so that all who look upon it might be awestruck.
Despite the huge vexation it certainly causes, many of us have become so accustomed to it that we look upon it as a ‘normal’ phenomenon or something laughable.
The word intuition comes from the Latin intueri, which means “to look upon”; it refers to our ability to observe a situation instantaneously, without our sense perception or our logic acting as intermediary. The Answer
A maiden was a good creature to look upon, full-breasted and strong, with spring to her step and light in her eyes. THE LAW OF LIFE
Let me but look upon my own flesh and blood, let me baptize the unbaptized with my tears, and I shall feel this horrible load removed from my heart. Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
-- 'For my own part,' he at once replied, 'I look upon Aeschylus as the first of poets, for his verses roll superbly; 'tis nothing but incoherence, bombast and turgidness.' The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
The letter was a feeler to see how he would look upon such a movement.
Instead, we look upon a bewildered bear dressed incongruously in a white shirt with cuff links. Times, Sunday Times
Don’t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.
Ulysses says, 'do not give all good things to all men, and often a man is made unfair to look upon, but over his ill favour they fling, like a garland, a power of lovely speech, and the people delight to _look_ on him. Short Studies on Great Subjects
Often they are middle-aged or elderly ladies, who look upon it as a social club.
At times, Sir, let me tell you, that I hate your whole sex for his sake; even men of unblamable characters, whom, at those times, I cannot but look upon as persons Clarissa Harlowe
They look upon him as a political sage, a voice of freedom, a speaker of truth to power.
Nevertheless, I managed to fill up the car out by the Harbour View station when I drove out there in the evening to look upon two skin rashes and earn a smalls.
I look upon this as an absolute necessity.
During the four following months it goes in and out, and strolls about between meals, like other young ones of its class, and is then an animal at nurse affording thus a twofold example of the tendency of the great Creator to repeat Himself in His conceptions, here using for the infancy of the mammal the system invented for adult insects -- elsewhere repeating the butterfly in the humming-bird, who may fairly be called a vertebrated butterfly, and reproducing the gnat in the vampire-bat, which I look upon as an enlarged and perfected revise of the original pattern, whence comes the scourge of our sweet summer nights. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
To him he says that, if the King's occulted guilt does not come out ( 'unkennel itself'), he (Hamlet) will look upon the apparition as a damned ghost, and (this is new) will think that his 'imaginations are as foul as Vulcan's stithy.' Shakspere and Montaigne
It's the way Xavi, Barcelona et. al. and all the Spain/ tika-taka devotee's look upon anything else as vaguely heretical. How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams
Gallicanism and all forms of French and German regalism affected to look upon the Holy See as an alien power because it was beyond the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
The other was a smaller and tubbier man, pleasant to look upon, a man evidently who lived for and by good eating and drinking. Patsy
But let a client or patient make the experiment of omitting this little ceremony of the honorarium, which is cense to be a thing entirely out of consideration between them, and mark how the learned gentleman will look upon his case. The Fortunes of Nigel
The Amir is strongly motivated by the Pashtoon concept of "izzat" (self-respect) and tends to look upon any suggestion of concessions to international opinion as an affront to his "izzat". IntelliBriefs
In all candor I must say that she approached closely to a realization of the ideals of a book -- a sixteenmo, if you please, fair to look upon, of clear, clean type, well ordered and well edited, amply margined, neatly bound; a human look whose text, as represented by her disposition and her mind, corresponded felicitously with the comeliness of her exterior. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
He was ugly to look upon, but he created great beauty.
He dare not hope: he would not expect that one like her could so soon, so unsought, unwooed, have learned to look upon him as anything more than a friend whose loyalty to Marion's Faith.
He, as well as Yarchenko, knew well the value of popularity among the studying youths, and even if he did look upon people with a certain contempt, from above, still he never, by as much as a single movement of his thin, clever, energetical lips, showed this. Yama: the pit
It was not unnatural that Welhaven should look upon the corybantic music of Wergeland as the source and origin of an evil of which it was really the symptom; he gathered his powers together to crush it, and he published a thunderbolt of sonnets. Henrik Ibsen
The Israelites must look upon the bronze serpent lifted on the pole, to be healed from the poison of the snakes (cf. Numbers 21, 4b-9). Mauro Gagliardi on the Centrality of the Crucified Christ in the Liturgical Celebration
The hog is all nature, the ship is all art, “coarse canvass,” “blue bunting,” and “tall poles;” both are violently acted upon by the wind, tossed here and there, to and fro, and yet nothing but excess of hunger could make me look upon the pig as the more poetical of the two, and then only in the shape of a griskin. Life of Lord Byron
As to replevying Yeomans's stock that was arrested by the sheriff, 1 look upon it to be very illegal, because when once any thing is in the custody of the law nothing but a judgm 'of law can remove it. Collections
He really seemed to look upon himself as the most important person in the parish.
Dutchman's mouth water -- a "polder" of surpassing excellence, but it is viewed in a different light by enthusiastic wild duck shooters, who, like the owner of a grouse moor, look upon drainage and reclamation as the visible work of the devil. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
I know only that I was good to look upon, crowned with fragrant maile, clad in Princess Naomi's wonderful holoku loaned me by Uncle John from his taboo room; and I know that I advanced alone to him across the Mana lawn, and that he stepped forth from those about him to meet me half-way. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
They are the enchanted herd of Slieve Fuad, and from their abode subterrene they have come up late into the world surrounded by night that they may graze upon Eiriu's plains, and it is not lawful even to look upon them. The Coming of Cuculain
The slave-traders in the Congo look upon their employment as did the contrabandist in the golden days of smuggling; the “free sailor” whom Marryatt depicts, a law-breaker, yet not less a very pleasant, companionable fellow. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Constitution to fetter the hands of conscientious loyalty in grappling with them, is a political creed which argues ill for the patriotism of its confessors; but it embodies the exact logic of those who look upon The Assassinated President
August at the convention of treason he took the material where and as he found we see him trying hard to bring the money power of the union into his service, we find him extorting large sums for his political campaigns from the so-called despisable trusts, since then we became accustomed to look upon every man of wealth and the great industrials corporations who have been and are today of incalculable value and benefit to our national welfare, as nothing more or less than contemptible criminals, whom he offended in the most profane language during his crusade against them, if they refused to become a part of his machine. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt
Radical and socialist theories look upon the present order as merely tran - sient and emphasize a dialectical tension between a provisional state of affairs and an ultimate classless future. CLASS
His eyes were bright and glassy, and their expression frightful to look upon. Strange Visitors
I only ask you not to quite forget me, though I hope -- _I hope_ -- I shall never look upon your sweet face again. Molly Bawn
The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem. Sole Music
They will stand as a continual inspiration for the living who look upon them and are sheltered by them from sun and storm.
He watched as she closed her mouth, an inquisitive look upon her mature, yet unwearied face.
We are therefore obliged to look upon the arguments for affirmative action with sympathy and an open mind.
I wonder whether the boys who live in Roxbury and Dorchester are ever moved to tears or filled with silent awe as they look upon the rocks and fragments of "puddingstone" abounding in those localities. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
We tend, I think, to look upon the advice that we give to young people as something that shall disillusionize them. Craftsmanship in Teaching
I laughed, and told him 'He had better keep his mind on the team, and not think about such things as the kind of hosiery I was wearing, that he must not look upon me as a dry-goods window.' A California Girl
This revolt against ideas is carried so far that able men have come seriously to look upon progress as a matter for the manipulation of wirepullers, something to be 'jobbed' in committee by sophistical motions or other clever trickery. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
'Every time we look upon our congregations, let us believingly remember that they are the purchase of Christ's blood, and therefore should be regarded by us with the deepest interest and the most tender affection. The Reformed Pastor
And in every part of the British Empire there are soldier lads who look upon this ex-sergeant-major of the Army Service Corps as their spiritual father, and there is no name oftener on their lips in South Africa than his. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa
We shall not look upon its like again for another four years. Times, Sunday Times
For ordinary purposes 17 feet of greenheart or split-cane are ample, and the modern salmon angler has come to look upon even this -- which our forefathers would have pooh-poohed as a mere grilse-rod -- as excessive. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
We ne'er shall look upon her like again, unless we can prevail upon some Bedouin Chief to present us with a brood mare, and then the racing world shall see what a breed we shall introduce into this country.
As regards a woman, for instance, the control over her body and her sexual gratification serves as an amply sufficient sign of ownership and possession to the more modest man; another with a more suspicious and ambitious thirst for possession, sees the "questionableness," the mere apparentness of such ownership, and wishes to have finer tests in order to know especially whether the woman not only gives herself to him, but also gives up for his sake what she has or would like to have -- only THEN does he look upon her as "possessed. Beyond Good and Evil
Unfortunate it is that Bigot's astounding depravity has led too many readers and writers of Canadian history to look upon the intendancy of New France as a post held chiefly by rascals. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
The ashiness and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eyeballs -- what man can look upon the sight, and not feel his heart awed within him? Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
But I cannot look upon these plans at a distance of six months, without feeling that past events ought to teach me how little I can depend on the future.
The letter was a feeler to see how he would look upon such a movement.
Small in stature, inclined even to those homely features known as ewe nick and cat ham, often higher behind than in front, and with great length of stifle, he is not, I admit, imposing to look upon. The end of an era,
We shall not look upon its like again for another four years. Times, Sunday Times
When a pupil makes his own Correlations, every concurrence he uses is a _real_ concurrence to him, and so with his Ins. and Exs. This is a decisive reason why the Pupil should merely look upon my Correlations as models, but make and memorise his _own_ Correlations in all cases, as being more vivid to _him_ and, therefore, more certainly remembered, as well as more effectively strengthening the Memory in both its Stages. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget
Was this the man whose escapades as a young tea planter had once been the subject of discussion among his contemporaries who would look upon him with admiration not unmixed with a tinge of envy?
The ashiness and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eye-balls -- what man can look upon the sight, and not feel his heart awed within him? Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42 ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
It is doing a very difficult job, mainly, seeing there is no waste in wartime, so anyone who is interested in Lease-Lend will look upon Sir John The Empire Carries On
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? We don’t need no stinking rules « Write Anything
For they look upon it as right that every lover should be _a little maddish_; and, every attempt to rescue him from the thraldom imposed by their charms, they look upon as an overt act of treason against their natural sovereignty. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
Thrice happy those among us who as conquerors shall look upon this gladdest of all days. Hellenica
Everything that has been done in any other athenaeum, I confidently expect to see done here; and when that shall be the case, and when there shall be great cheap schools in connexion with the institution, and when it has bound together for ever all its friends, and brought over to itself all those who look upon it as an objectionable institution, — then, and not till then, I hope the young men of Speeches: Literary and Social
This, aside from having such utilities as remining the girls that they are total slaves and giving pleasure to the men who look upon them, is supsed to make them, rahter than free women, the desiderated objects of capture and rapine. Rogue Of Gor
She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses. THE UNEXPECTED
His mother did warn him beforehand, saying, "When thou dost look upon her, cast a sheep's-eye, and say, 'How do ye, sweet pigsnie?' The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies
If 'and-éges' be accepted, the sentence will read: _No hero ... dared look upon her, eye to eye_. Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
Don’t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.
It is not unseasonable, when we are in health, to think of dying; but it is an inexcusable incogitancy if, when we are already taken into the custody of death's messengers, we look upon it as a thing at a distance. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Liberalism "describes the" practical reformer "so that anybody can recognize him:" This revolt against ideas is carried so far that able men have come seriously to look upon progress as a matter for the manipulation of wire-pullers, something to be 'jobbed' in committee by sophistical notions or other clever trickery. A Preface to Politics
In the anticipation of this pleasant interview, it was natural we should seek to rescue ourselves from a disguise, that the eye of woman could not look upon otherwise than with _degout_. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
Also he was informed that the mask he wore was, as he had guessed, a kind of undress uniform without which he must never appear, since for anyone except the Asika herself to look upon the naked countenance of an individual so mysteriously mixed up with Little A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa
When I look upon these people who are being trained with this attitude, and work up a good sweat with them, I feel a sort of inexpressible sorrow along with a great responsibility.
The only way out of this difficulty is to look upon the imagination as itself active and expressive in _verbal imagination_, and language as the language of _intuition_, not of the intelligence. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
It is, I imagine, a sense capable of cultivation, and enables us to look upon many of man's doings that would otherwise vex and pain us, and, as some say, destroy all the pleasure of our lives, not exactly as an illusion, as if we were Japanese and had seen a fox in the morning, but at all events in what we call a philosophic spirit. Afoot in England
Alcibiades _gave to_ Socrates, _when he compar'd him to the Statues of the_ Sileni, _which to look upon, had nothing beautiful and ornamental; but open them, and there you might discover the Images of all the Gods and Goddesses. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707)
Suppose there was something else in my life that took the other ninety-nine parts, and, furthermore, that ruined my figure, that put pouches under my eyes and crows-feet in the corners, that made me unbeautiful to look upon and that made my spirit unbeautiful. Chapter XIX
Instead, we look upon a bewildered bear dressed incongruously in a white shirt with cuff links. Times, Sunday Times
Her mother replied that policemen were greatly sought after as husbands for several reasons -- firstly, they were big men, and big men are always good to look upon; secondly, their social standing was very high and their respectability undoubted; thirdly, a policeman's pay was such as would bring comfort to any household which was not needlessly and criminally extravagant; and this was often supplemented in a variety of ways which rumor only hinted at: there was also the safe prospect of a pension and the possibility of a sergeantship, where the emoluments were very great: and fourthly, a policeman, being subjected for many years to a rigorous discipline, would likely make a nice and obedient husband. Mary, Mary
The regular teachers look upon the fifth and sixth grade sloyd [* sic] which they teach with no great enthusiasm. What the Schools Teach and Might Teach
The committee did not look upon the suggestion with favor.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. Benjamin Franklin
So, he bestowed a searching look upon the fare, as he put his hand in his waistcoat pocket, when he had gone half the mile, to get the money ready; and if he brought forth eightpence, out he went. Sketches by Boz
The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them -- they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound -- were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend. The Motor Pirate
But, O our lord the Imam, 'tis my wish first of all things to look upon her and see if she be pure or otherwise; and, as regarding her singular comeliness, my convicion is that thy word sufficeth and thine avouchment is veridical. Arabian nights. English
Teach me likewise to number the days of this world's greatness, of which I have so great a share; and teach me to look upon them as vanity and vexation of spirit. "] [Footnote 70:" Je vis Milord Rochester comme il sortoit de conseil fort chagrin; et, sur la fin du souper, il lui en echappe quelque chose. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
We four have shammed blind, and we impose upon people that we may enter houses and look upon the unveiled faces of the women and contrive for their corruption. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I hope you look upon the market as a trading laboratory introspection.
Leopard Man" is a plotboiler: an old story written for a quick $25: the Leopard Man, a circus performer, tells a reporter of "King" Wallace, a lion-tamer who is hated by another man, a juggler and sword-swallower named De Ville, toward whose wife Wallace had the temerity to look upon, apparently lustfully. “I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
These volatile people will in my opinion look upon us with suspicion and distrust for years to come.
The constitution of the oxyazo compounds has attracted much attention, some chemists holding that they are true azophenols of the type R·N_2·R_1·OH, while others look upon them as having a quinonoid structure, _i. e._ as being quinone hydrazones, type R·NH·N: R_1: O. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
She stood firm as she watched some of the paladins she knew lower her father's body into a grave, this would be the last time she would ever look upon his face.
Remembering the Onites, who are very similar in shape and who manipulate stercoral matter, he would look upon the foreigner as another manipulator of dung. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
Yet as the last colored leaves, varnished with the first rains of winter, fall earthward, the deciduous trees bare their sinewy musculature for all the world to look upon.
That's one reason why I treated you so cattishly last night; because you were so maddeningly good to look upon. The Bells of San Juan
Fortunately, this individual has the goodwill and approval of close associates, and most people look upon him with favour.
It is perfectly quiet; I have green trees to look upon, and spend the sum of one piastre a day. Letters of Two Brides
I did not look upon the chips as money; to me they were what they were - just pieces of plastic.
I look upon this as my home.
They look upon sending an ambassy, as a mark of vassalage and submission, and therefore make it a general rule not to send any themselves to other courts. Hau Kiou Choaan
Planta has already tried to show that atropine is identical with the daturine obtained by Geiger and Hesse, founding his opinion on facts which we nowadays look upon as doubtful. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
I cannot look upon the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed design of any kind in the details.
The committee did not look upon the suggestion with favor.
Nay, further, we are what we all abhor, anthropophagi, and cannibals, devourers not only of men, but of ourselves; and that not in an allegory but a positive truth: for all this mass of flesh which we behold, came in at our mouths: this frame we look upon, hath been upon our trenchers; in brief, we have devoured ourselves. Religio Medici
The ashiness and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eyeballswhat man can look upon the sight, and not feel his heart awed within him? Little Jane. Pieces in Early Youth
I wonder whether the boys that live in Roxbury and Dorchester are ever moved to tears or filled with silent awe as they look upon the rocks and fragments of "puddingstone" abounding in those localities. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
He was to the last plain and blunt; at this time I can easily believe him to have been so to a degree which Scott might look upon as "ungracious" -- I take the epithet from one of his letters to James Ballantyne. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
I may state that I have used 30 per cent. of fuel on an average, saved from 25 to 30 per cent. on stokers 'wages, and increased my production of gas per ton of coal; while the regularity of the heats was a pleasure to look upon. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
So decidedly are amiability and mildness their characteristics, that I confess I look upon that youth who distinguished himself by the slaughter of these inoffensive persons, as a false-hearted brigand, who, pretending to philanthropic motives, was secretly influenced only by the wealth stored up within their castles, and the hope of plunder. American Notes for General Circulation
We look upon this grallatory attitude toward life as artificial and hampering, and prefer to walk among our neighbors as much as possible upon our own feet. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain;’ and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
I look upon this as an absolute necessity.
While some might look upon this bicycle covetously, fantasizing about how handsome it would look hanging from the trunk rack of a BMW 7 series sedan with a DDS vanity plate, I find every shred of crabon, leather, and gold anodization a vile manifestation of frivolity. New Customs: Changing Language, Changing Bikes
We have always been taught to look upon the people of New England as a selfish, cunning set of fellows, that was fed on fox-ears and thistle-tops; that cut their wisdom-teeth as soon as they were born; that made money by their wits, and held on to it by nature; that called cheatery mother-wit; that hung on to political power because they had numbers; that raised up manufactures to keep down the South and West; and, in fact, had so much of the devil in all their machinery, that they would neither lead nor drive, unless the load was going into their own cribs. David Crockett
I look upon all men as my compatriots.
And when at his final examination he makes, as nine-tenths of such men do make, a grand crash, and his name comes out in the third or fourth class, or he get "gulfed" altogether -- it is two to one but his friends and his tutor look upon him, and talk of him, as rather an ill-used individual. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
Compared to these inducements, the fact that people would look upon her askance was a very insignificant consideration. Mary Wollstonecraft
They look upon it as a thing of contempt and scorn people who swear by virtual relationships.
The alternative is to look upon the monarch as a mere figurehead, a focal point for tradition, pomp and ritual on the great occasions of state.
How can the old order look upon the new without feeling bereaved beyond measure for the world which has slipped away? ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
But let a client or patient make the experiment of omitting this little ceremony of the honorarium, which is _cense_ to be a thing entirely out of consideration between them, and mark how the learned gentleman will look upon his case. The Fortunes of Nigel
They have been hard at work most of the day, and they look upon the sociable evening hours as a time to be given up to what the Scotch call "daffing"; that is to say, a sort of nimble interchange of humorous or interesting gossip; a man who pursues a subject intently is apt to be thought a bore. From a College Window
But Easterns would look upon this as a proof of his “kingliness.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
When the Shaykh looked at him and saw the violence of his terror, he said to him, “O my son, come, sit at the threshold of the shop and look upon yonder creatures and upon their dress and complexion and that wherein they are by reason of gramarye and dread not; for the Queen and all in the city love and tender me and will not vex my heart or trouble my mind.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
I cannot better bid farewell to all woes and pains and intolerable distresses, and to the hell of the amorous woman, than in biding farewell to you, madam, without the least prospect that wherever you or I may be we shall ever look upon each other more. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
I look upon this as an absolute necessity.
Crescent shaped brows raising upon her forehead, Morgana turned a questioning look upon her husband as Briar threw open the doors to the throne room.
Some look upon the women as trailblazers in a forbidden area, while many others hold them in disdain because of their frivolous character.
We do not often look upon fine young men, well-bred and agreeable. Emma
The business of aruspices was to look upon the beasts offered in sacrifices, and by them to divine the success of any enterprise. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
Don’t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.
And then, when the hour _has_ come at last, have you been able to take your departure without some half-reproachful feeling akin to melancholy -- without some slight shade of regret to think that much as you have hated it, you look upon it all now for the _last_ time? Kate Coventry An Autobiography
But let a client or patient make the experiment of omitting this little ceremony of the honorarium, which is cense to be a thing entirely out of consideration between them, and mark how the learned gentleman will look upon his case. The Fortunes of Nigel
Jonathan Homer of Newton, who was, to look upon, a kind of expurgated, reduced and Americanized copy of Voltaire, but very unlike him in wickedness or wit. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
Bull, which no Englishman must even look upon; had mastered the thieves'-patter of the changars; had taken a Eusufzai horse-thief alone near Attock; and had stood under the mimbar-board of a Border mosque and conducted service in the manner of a Sunni Mollah. Plain Tales from the Hills
To look upon the ruins and relics of our ancestors does not so much resurrect their world as call to mind its irremediable loss.
But many caddies offer a great deal more and look upon themselves as vital components in the professional golfer's armoury.
The committee did not look upon the suggestion with favor.
Wallflower in the spring, and the heavenly-blue flowers of = Nemophila insignis = in early summer will tempt many a one to walk in the garden who would care little for sheets of scarlet and yellow that in full sunshine make the eyes ache to look upon them. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
You are the type of woman, sexually stimulating and curvacious, desirable, whom Gorean men, rightly or wrongly, look upon in terms of the parameters of bondage, in terms of such things as their potential for yielding incredible gratification and service. Rogue Of Gor
Don’t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.
Then help me, princess, cried Theseus; help me to come to the Minotaur and look upon it, and help me, too, to get back the sword that I brought with me to Crete. Part III. The Heroes of the Quest. Chapter III. Theseus and the Minotaur. IV
That, after all, incontinency is powerless to bring us to that realm of sweetness which some look upon579 as her peculiar province; it is not incontinency but self-control alone which has the passport to highest pleasures. Memorabilia
_Resolved_, That the people of Ohio now, as they have always done, look upon slavery as an evil, and unfavorable to the development of the spirit and practical benefits of free institutions; and that, entertaining these sentiments, they will at all times feel it to be their duty to use all power clearly given by the terms of the national compact, to prevent its increase, to mitigate, _and finally eradicate the evil_. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
Pensioners, the young, singles and divorcees all now look upon wash day as a social occasion.
[Illustration: GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.] "'If you visit that garden and look upon its old olive trees, the keeper of the place will tell you that you are in Gethsemane, the spot of our Saviour's betrayal. Among the Trees at Elmridge
He scarce ever made his first Entrance in a Play but he was received with an involuntary Applause, not of Hands only, for those may be, and have often been partially prostituted and bespoken, but by a General Laughter which the very Sight of him provoked and Nature cou'd not resist; yet the louder the Laugh the graver was his Look upon it; and sure, the ridiculous Solemnity of his Features were enough to have set a whole Bench of Bishops into a Titter, cou'd he have been honour'd (may it be no Offence to suppose it) with such grave and right reverend Auditors. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I
We look upon you as belonging to the family.
In all candor I must say that she approached closely to a realization of the ideals of a book -- a sixteenmo, if you please, fair to look upon, of clear, clean type, well ordered and well edited, amply margined, neatly bound; a human book whose text, as represented by her disposition and her mind, corresponded felicitously with the comeliness of her exterior. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Please do not look upon this tape as some kind of an Augustinian justification pro sua vita. BLACK EAGLES
This would be significatory of the alteration of my status, informing anyone who might look upon it that I had not been -opened. Dancer Of Gor
Over his bullneck and under his spiked hat he had naturally come to look upon himself as a super-being. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
Some writers look upon Fumid exhalation, which is a compound of On Sense and the Sensible
She had managed to pull herself together and, to her credit, continued to look upon life as a positive experience.
Unfortunately, notwithstanding the formal promulgation of the secular order, some people continue to look upon the Indian state as a Hindu state.

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