"Agaze" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unnaturally still. In all the time he stared at her simple bonnet and decently clothed shoulders, the silhouette she made against the silver band of the river did not change by an iota. He had been agaze upon the landscape too, but he was sure that he had not sat as still as this, and when, after an interval during which he had turned to see what kind of man it was who had spoken so vigorously, he wheeled back into place and glanced out again through his ...
— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green
... made his way indeed, for the most part, with a certain directness, over to the north side; but once that ground was reached his behaviour was noticeably wanting in point. He moved seemingly at random from alley to alley; he stopped for no reason and remained idly agaze; he sat down in a chair and then changed to a bench; after which he walked about again, only again to repeat both the vagueness and the vivacity. Distinctly, he was a man either with nothing at all to do or with ever so much to think about; ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... is comin' here to see you?" she inquired, as they left Little Hawss wistfully agaze at them across ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... agaze at the strangeness and wonder of her, a voice at my shoulder made me whirl in surprise. A soft, silky ...
— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell
... make her see ... and we alle looked up, but saw noughte. Howbeit, she pointed up three severall times, and lay, as it were, transfigured before us, a gazing at some transporting sighte, and ever and anon turning on her sister looks of love; and, the while we stoode thus agaze, her spiritt passed away without even a thrill or a shudder. Cecy and I beganne to weepe; and, after a while, soe did Gammer; then, putting us forthe, she sayd, "Goe, children, goe; 'tis noe goode crying; and yet I'm thankfulle to ye for ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various |
