In some instances, to the quick,
observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.
Though he was certainly rather bigger than the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to the clever though shy, but
observant and natural, expression which distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room.
As the door closed on the two, the Sergeant, looking about among the women-servants in his
observant way, noticed that while all the rest were merely frightened, Penelope was in tears.
Pontellier, who was
observant about such things, noticed it, as he served the soup and handed it to the boy in waiting.
In a few moments, a man stood in his presence, who, with a keenly
observant look at him, addressed him by his name.
An army of servants were hurrying to and fro in squadrons in the courtyard and corridors; while Fouquet, who had only that morning arrived, walked all through the palace with a calm,
observant glance, in order to give his last orders, after his intendants had inspected everything.
My companions, however, had been more
observant; and, as we rolled along, they discussed between them not only his looks, words, and actions, but every feature of his face, and every article of his apparel.
He lounged along, smoking a large cigar, keen-eyed and
observant, laying up for himself a store of impressions, unconsciously irritated at every step by a sense of ostracism, of being in some indefinable manner without kinship and wholly apart from this world, in which it seemed natural now that he should find some place.
Observant persons, accustomed to frequent the London parks, can hardly have failed to notice the number of solitary strangers sadly endeavoring to vary their lives by taking a walk.
She looked about her with
observant eyes; not only noticing the tent which had been set up on the grass to accommodate the expected guests, but entering it, and looking at the waiters who were engaged in placing the luncheon on the table.
It would have been plain, only too plain, to far less
observant eyes than Mrs.
The king of the country was also
observant of it, and vowed that he who could discover whence the sounds proceeded, should have the title of "Universal Bell-ringer," even if it were not really a bell.