Holding aloft the Bible, the true standard of the cross, they rallied the ignorant and uncivilized natives appreciatingly around it, more worthily and long before our famous explorers decorated the North Pole with the American flag. ❋ Robert Elliott Flickinger (N/A)
He pulls his purple moustache and looks appreciatingly at Iris, who never sees him, as it should seem. ❋ Various (N/A)
They walked to the castellated monastery of San Basilio, where in the chapel of Saint Nilus they saw the celebrated frescoes of Domenichino, and gazed at them tranquilly and not quite so appreciatingly as they would have done before dinner. ❋ Various (N/A)
Mr. Eliot, in his "Survey of the Needs of Education," speaks appreciatingly of his father's having caused him to learn carpentry and wood-turning. ❋ Unknown (1910)
He beseeches the Lord that he may have the right angle of vision, and that he may survey everything appreciatingly from the standpoint of the Almighty. ❋ 1817-1893 (1907)
Ailworth nodded appreciatingly, now and then, and Doak even slapped his knee once and giggled aloud. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)
The latter shook hands cordially, and allowed his gaze to travel appreciatingly over Joel's five feet eight inches of bone and muscle. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)
Framed against the black background of the hall, his dark, rather handsome face clearly revealed as he fronted the window, his black, audacious eyes fixed appreciatingly upon the lady, stood "Black Bart" Hawley. ❋ Randall Parrish (1890)
And I consider it to have been no small indication of the capacity of my wife's intelligence, that she so clearly and appreciatingly recognised and measured the distance between her friend's intellect and her own. ❋ Trollope, Thomas A (1887)
Fitz crushed the sugar in his glass, remarked that there was not the slightest doubt of _his_ being present, winked at me appreciatingly over the edge of the tumbler, rubbed his paunch slowly with one hand, and with eyes upcast took another sip of the mixture. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
The various passages cited above prove and illustrate that no author has written so feelingly, so appreciatingly, as Shakespeare on the subject of sleep and its loss. ❋ Unknown (1873)
The ladies appreciatingly declared that such a tale was beyond the understandings of men. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Mr. Bastow at first put it to his lips without glancing at it, but he was a connoisseur in wine, and the bouquet of the port appealing to his latent senses, he took a sip, and then another, appreciatingly. ❋ Unknown (1867)
It is admitted that if one goes into a new place he estimates the agreeableness of it according to the number of people it contains with whom it is a pleasure to converse, who have either the ability to talk well or the intelligence to listen appreciatingly even if deceivingly, whose society has the beguiling charm that makes even natural scenery satisfactory. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
He, of course, joined her, and after some common-place references to the affliction in her sister's family, he said, surveying her appreciatingly, “What becoming mourning you have selected!” ❋ Unknown (1857)
