1 She looked about the drawing-room with an expression of minute scrutiny.
2 Mrs. Peniston again paused, but this time her scrutiny addressed itself, not to the furniture, but to her niece.
3 It was as the immortalizer of such occasions that little Dabham, wedged in modest watchfulness between two brilliant neighbours, suddenly became the centre of Selden's scrutiny.
4 "The world is too vile," she murmured, averting herself from Mrs. Fisher's anxious scrutiny.
5 One or two of these passers-by slackened their pace to glance curiously at her lonely figure; but she was hardly conscious of their scrutiny.
6 Though none of the most elegant, it yet stood the scrutiny tolerably well.
7 Satisfied with his scrutiny, the hunter soon left him.
8 Setting the example himself, the scout engaged in the scrutiny with renewed zeal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 9 Then lowering the dangerous muzzle he stretched forward his long neck, as if to assist a scrutiny that was already intensely keen.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 10 But when, last in this haughty scrutiny, the person of Tamenund came under his glance, his eye became fixed, as though all other objects were already forgotten.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 11 In imagination he felt the scrutiny of his companions as he painfully labored through some lies.
12 The whole frame-work of society, both in Europe and America, is made up of various things which will not stand the scrutiny of any very ideal standard of morality.
13 Having finished his scrutiny, he proceeded slowly down the path, or rather down the fringe of grass which flanked the path, keeping his eyes riveted upon the ground.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 14 My visitor, who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, set down the glass upon the table, and then turned and looked upon me with an air of scrutiny.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 15 Her thoughtfulness baffled his cunning scrutiny.