What is "observing"

Usage examples of "observing".

An observing critic who, without being acquainted with us, wished to guess whether love was present at our happy party, might have suspected, perhaps, but he certainly could not have affirmed, that it was there.

From observing its action in the cure of this and other miasmatic diseases, and knowing its composition, we are thoroughly satisfied that it contains chemical properties which neutralize and destroy the miasmatic or ague poison which is in the system, and, at the same time, produces a rapid excretion of the neutralized poisons.

Within the dark glistening of the corridors, where surface speaks to surface in tiny whispers like fingers, and the larger codes, the extirpated skeletons of a billion minds, clack together in a cemetery of logic, shaking hands, continually shaking bony, algorithmic hands and observing strict and necessary protocol for the purposes of destruction.

Observing stars at certain angles through the anomaly, we find their images blurred and spectral lines shifted toward the red.

But from observing the effects of placing plants in the dark, in which case several shoots became in two or three days upright or nearly upright, and when brought back into the light again became rectangularly curved, we believe that the bending is in part due to apheliotropism, apparently somewhat opposed by apogeotropism.

I observed that individual children, born totally deaf, preferred, even in conversation with one another, and when ignorant of the fact that I was observing them, the articulate words just learned, although these were scarcely intelligible, to their own signs.

I would be there, observing, listening, and tasting, right from the very first time he met Justin Ascham Raleigh during that initial freshers week, until the night of the murder.

I will content myself with observing that if Madame de Maintenon conceived the first idea of it, it is the great benefactions of the monarch and the profound recognition of the nobility which have given stability and renown to this house.

He slapped the desk resoundingly with his open palm, and then, observing that Bibbs remained in the same impassive attitude, with his eyes still fixed upon the ceiling in a contemplation somewhat plaintive, Sheridan was impelled to groan.

Gentleladies Bindweed and Blossom had been observing the landing from the same seats as before.

Two pairs of black eyes followed the movement, observing her from similar square-jawed, angular faces.

Henriette came to me, and observing that her eyes were red I heaved a deep sigh, but she tried to smile.

Le Duc came in in high spirits, observing that he did not know he was such a good jumper.

Aunt Emma spotted a look in your eyes when you were observing Paula at the christening two and a half years ago.

Zack watched around in search of the direction assistant and saw unemployed it in the turf, with the arms in jars and the head thrown backwards, observing to dequeue to the helicopter that left in a trip from routine to the laboratory of Dallas where the copiones of the day were processed.