The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes , and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray ; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast ; to the cold and ghastly moon glancingglancethrough bars of cloud at a wreck just sinkingsink.
Winterbourne glancedglanceat the small table near him , on which his coffee service rested , and sawseethat several morsels of sugar remained .
It was morning when he awokeawakeand threw a startled glanceglanceupward to the twisted branches of the oak that bent above , siftingsiftdown sunshine on his brown face and close curled hair .
In a moment , however , wisely judgingjudgethat one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another , she tooktakethe baby on her arm , and with a burning blushblush, and yet a haughty smilesmile, and a glanceglancethat would not be abashed , lookedlookaround at her townspeople and neighbours .
Her acquaintance with the place presentedpresenther in a manner as a hostess , and Strether had a rueful glanceglancefor the lady in the glass cage .
The next morning , when there was riding to be done , and Miguel appearedappearat the last moment in his working clothes , even Weary , the sunny-hearted , had an unmistakable curlcurlof his lip after the first glanceglance.
When he pausedpauseby the clerk 's desk on his way out , to lightlighthis cigar , the day clerk , who had just come on duty , glancedglanceat the register and readreadthe last entry : -- " ' JOHN WARWICK , CLARENCE , SOUTH CAROLINA . '
He threw a glanceglancetoward a certain corner where steps led to the town hall above .
He glancedglanceround him , and sawseethat , save for Katharine , they were all over forty , the only consolationconsolationbeing that Mr. Fortescue was a considerable celebrity , so that to-morrow one might be glad to have met him .
She knew that the intruder was ill-bred , even before she glancedglanceat him .
" And you have a large rent too , " saidsaythe gentleman quizzically , with a glanceglanceat a large hole in Dick 's coat .
" Thank you , " he saidsaydrily , glancingglancefrom her to the door and then at her again .
A backward glanceglanceconvincedconvinceme that to return by the way I had come would be more hazardous than to continue across the plateau , so , puttingputspurs to my poor beast , I made a dashdashfor the opening to the pass which I could distinguishdistinguishon the far side of the table land .
He was already acquainted with the market reports , and he glancedglancerestlessly over the editorials and bits of news which he had not had time to read before quittingquitNew Orleans the day before .
He was , for the order of intellect represented , attractive , and whatever he had to recommend him , you may be sure was not lost upon Carrie , in this , her first glanceglance.
He glancedglancedown complacently at the vivid-hued silken scarf that the season 's mode demanded .
He met their infrequent glancesglancewith the cool starestareof absolute indifference to their opinion of him , and their perfunctory civilitycivilitywith introspective calm .
She glancedglanceat his white-swathed head and blue goggles again as she was goinggoout of the door ; but his napkin was still in front of his face .
In the centre of this enchanted garden Madame Nilsson , in white cashmere slashed with pale blue satin , a reticule dangling from a blue girdle , and large yellow braids carefully disposed on each side of her muslin chemisette , listenedlistenwith downcast eyes to M. Capoul 's impassioned wooingwoo, and affected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever , by wordwordor glanceglance, he persuasively indicatedindicatethe ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing .
An ' I reckon , " continuedcontinuethe undertaker solemnly , his glanceglanceunconsciously seekingseeka row of fine caskets standing against the wall , -- " I reckon he 'll soon be goin ' de way er all de earth .
But altogether all that did not amount to much either in the way of gain or prospects ; so that when Winnie announced her engagement to Mr Verloc her mother could not help wonderingwonder, with a sighsighand a glanceglancetowards the scullery , what would become of poor Stephen now .
Casually glancingglanceover the hedge , Oak sawseecomingcomedown the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon , painted yellow and gaily marked , drawndrawby two horses , a waggoner walkingwalkalongside bearingbeara whip perpendicularly .
She glancedglancemechanically at the house opposite , a stucco house with a portico , and wentgoto the child 's bed .
From his black-and-white horsehair hatband , with tassels that swept to the very edge of his gray hatbrim , to the crimson silk neckerchief draped over the pale blue bosom of his shirt ; from the beautifully stamped leather cuffs , down to the exaggerated height of his tan boot-heels , their critical eyes swept in swift , appraising glancesglance; and unanimous disapprovaldisapprovalwas the result .
The redjacketed and dark - haired maiden seemed to think so too , for she carelessly glancedglanceover him , and toldtellher man to drive on .