What is "looking after"

Usage examples of "looking after".

I had got obstinately persuaded by this time that the letter must be in the room--principally because of the trouble I had had in looking after it.

A couple of the leg-stretching passengers were looking after the two deserters but so far no one appeared inclined to follow them.

FIVE years have elapsed since Monsieur Lomaque stood thoughtfully at the gate of Trudaine's house, looking after the carriage of the bride and bridegroom, and seriously reflecting on the events of the future.

Herr Wallach mentioned you were looking after Fraulein Blau for him.

You know what was left to guard the slipper while the Sheikh - rot him - was away looking after arrangements for getting his mob out of the country?

The whole day long thou must sit on a bench with thy book, not play with the goats in the Campagna, or go here and there looking after thy little friends!

I get so bored with ordering three meals a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and ruining my eyes over that horrid sewing-machine, and looking after your clothes and Rone's and Ted's and Tinka's and everybody's, and the laundry, and darning socks, and going down to the Piggly Wiggly to market, and bringing my basket home to save money on the cash-and-carry and—.

In no way wearied by his sallies on the road, he was in the drawing-room before any of us, and I heard him at the piano while I was yet looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcarolles and drinking songs, Italian and German, by the score.

Shelby had gone on her visit, and Eliza stood in the verandah, rather dejectedly looking after the retreating carriage, when a hand was laid on her shoulder.

Pontellier returned to his wife with the information that Raoul had a high fever and needed looking after.

Now I have to keep their bacon from burning instead of looking after my own!

Harv claimed the privilege of looking after his prince, but it wasn't worth making a scene over.