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Example sentences for "looked upon"

  • After this he carried off the early meal for his master and faring to the field set it before him and when the Fellah looked upon it he cried, "O Boy, by Allah this bread is white and 'tis clean unlike the foregone.

  • When I looked upon her, O Commander of the Faithful, I was perplexed as to my affair.

  • In France and in England the jurisdiction of political bodies is looked upon as an extraordinary resource, which is only to be employed in order to rescue society from unwonted dangers.

  • The right granted to the courts of justice of judging the agents of the executive government, when they have violated the laws, is so natural a one that it cannot be looked upon as an extraordinary privilege.

  • A political condemnation in the United States may, therefore, be looked upon as a preventive measure; and there is no reason for restricting the judges to the exact definitions of criminal law.

  • The township, taken as a whole, and in relation to the government of the country, may be looked upon as an individual to whom the theory I have just alluded to is applied.

  • He informed Mr Richard, sir, that he couldn't bear the house after what had taken place; that he was wretched in it; and that he looked upon himself as being in a certain kind of way the cause of the occurrence.

  • He is looked upon as rather a doubtful character.

  • The pony preserved his character for independence and principle down to the last moment of his life; which was an unusually long one, and caused him to be looked upon, indeed, as the very Old Parr of ponies.

  • Nevertheless, I felt listless and weary, but I looked upon that as the inevitable consequence of so complete a change of life, and thought it would disappear when I grew more accustomed to goodness.

  • He told me that on the secretary's reminding him that I looked upon it as a favour to be left alone, he answered that I had grown wiser in the four months of my imprisonment.

  • I looked upon her as a most worthy woman, whose kindness of heart and purity of life deserved the esteem of all.

  • I looked upon myself as a dishonoured man, and while I am on that subject I may as well relate an incident which will give some idea of my thoughtlessness.

  • I inwardly despised him, yet I could not feel hatred for him; I looked upon him as the instrument which Providence had been pleased to employ in order to save me from ruin.

  • To say the worst, it could only be looked upon as an ebullition of the folly of youth.

  • This advice he would not take, because he looked upon D'Alembert as an infidel.

  • Riviere, a Counsellor of Parliament, who was also Intendant of Martinique; he looked upon him as a man of the greatest genius, and thought him the only person fit for the financial department of administration.

  • He told Madame that he looked upon me in the apartment as a picture or statue, and never put any constraint upon himself on account of my presence.

  • I looked upon her as already dead, and as having cursed me dying!

  • This adventure of Roche-Mauprat must be looked upon only as an evil dream.

  • I loved as a son (for I looked upon you as Edmee's brother), do not hasten to your ruin.

  • It would almost seem that, according to their peculiar code of morals, the pilfering of a hatchet or a wrought nail from a European, is looked upon as a praiseworthy action.

  • Among those whom I looked upon as forming the priesthood of the valley, there was one in particular who often attracted my notice, and whom I could not help regarding as the head of the order.

  • These I endeavored to account for by the fact that he had been saved from what he looked upon as political death by the sudden but opportune decease of his best friend.

  • The fact that the bride went through the ceremony without her bridal bouquet is looked upon by many as an unfavorable omen.

  • The secret had not been reached and had almost come to be looked upon as insolvable.

  • I looked upon my table, my chair, my bed--there was nothing.

  • He was indigent, and "looked upon as a very freakish and extravagant man.

  • He looked upon it as a good sign, and his mind felt a slight relief.

  • If Raoul, with the heedlessness of youth, mocked at the future, Louis, the man of the world, looked upon it with different eyes.

  • Had she not destroyed his hopes of happiness, by crushing his pure love for a noble girl, whom he looked upon as his future wife, and thus driven him into a life of dissipation and sin?

  • White soup is looked upon as quite a high-class soup, but it is just as easy to make as any other kind.

  • It should rather be looked upon as a delicate fluid to be imbibed only in very small quantities.

  • The recovery of Your Imperial Majesty's ancient dominions may then be looked upon as accomplished from the influence of the French Cabinet.

  • That Rubinstein dared to compose a Christ drama must be looked upon as proof of the profound sincerity of his belief in the art-form which he fondly hoped he had created; also, perhaps, as evidence of his artistic ingenuousness.

  • In the parable of the Prodigal Son there is no personage whose presentation in dramatic garb could be looked upon as a profanation of the Scriptures.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    drawing nigh; excellent food; exercise their; good green; life long; looked about; looked across; looked after; looked anxiously; looked around; looked back; looked down; looked for; looked forward; looked from; looked full; looked out; looked quite; looked round; looked upon; picket duty; regards their; though anxious; time required; white wing; who wished