"Look away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of mingling here serious and even reproachful reflections, I rather turn my look away from those beautiful times; for who is able to speak worthily of the fulness of childhood? We cannot behold the little creatures which flit about before us otherwise than with delight, nay, with admiration; for they generally promise more than they perform: and it seems that Nature, ...
— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... did the twin princes, Really-Is and Seemsto-Be, climb the winding stairs in the palace tower and look away over the Great Wall of Daybyday to the City Sometime in the Land of Yettocome. Many were the hours they spent talking of the marvelous place that so filled the distance with dazzling splendor. And at last, when the princes were quite grown, ...
— The Uncrowned King • Harold Bell Wright
... concluded. A silence followed during which the lady turned her look away from the window and fastened it upon the face of the man who ...
— The Three Comrades • Kristina Roy
... hadn't been a party, it was enough to make any body happy only to breathe the sweet air, and look away down at the white village, and away off ...
— Little Prudy • Sophie May
... expressiveness at all; but a strange light grew and brightened in his eyes, till little by little all else was blurred and hazy in the girl's sight, and blue fire seemed to lap her from her tawny hair to her bare feet. Then she knew nothing except that she must look away or burn. And her eyes fell. Harding walked past her as he had done before, and not till he was out of hearing did the bystanders ...
— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon
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