-- with the halter about his neck , and while Colonel Pyncheon sat on horseback , grimly gazinggazeat the scene Maule had addressedaddresshim from the scaffold , and uttered a prophecyprophecy, of which history , as well as fireside tradition , has preserved the very words .
A shabby little traveling man , who was just then comingcomeout of the store on his way to the saloon , stoppedstopand gazedgazestupidly at the shining mass of hair she baredbarewhen she tooktakeoff her veil ; two thick braids , pinned about her head in the German way , with a fringe of reddish-yellow curls blowingblowout from under her cap .
The mother perceivedperceiveher son gazinggazeenraptured outside the Lion Wallace booth , at the pictures of this famous lion that had killedkilla negro and maimed for life two white men .
Stephen , an elbow rested on the jagged granite , leanedleanhis palm against his brow and gazedgazeat the fraying edge of his shiny black coat-sleeve .
For moments he seemed to forget himself , and swept his far-reaching gazegazeout over the colored gulf of stone and sand .
It was possible , I reflectedreflect, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene , of the details of the picture , would be sufficient to modify , or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and , actingactupon this idea , I reinedreinmy horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling , and gazedgazedown -- but with a shuddershuddereven more thrillingthrillthan before -- upon the remodelled and inverted images of the grey sedge , and the ghastly tree-stems , and the vacant and eye-like windows .
Then , gazinggazeover the handkerchief , he saidsay: — The bard ’s noserag !
He laughedlaughgrimly and bent a keener gazegazeupon the furrowed , shadowy face .
There was also a cat in a willow basket , from the partly-opened lid of which she gazedgazewith half-closed eyes , and affectionately-surveyed the small birds around .
He fixed his gazegazeupon a white sunshade that was advancingadvanceat snail 's pace from the beach .
Dale 's gazegazesweptsweepup and down the valley , and then triedtryto pierce the black shadows across the brook where the wall of spruce stood up , its speared and spiked crest against the pale clouds .
We satsitdown ; and for some moments , while he spoke not , I gazedgazeupon him with a feeling half of pity , half of awe .