stared

Holmes sat for some little time twisting this letter between his fingers, and frowning, as he

stared

into the fire.

He was a tall man, strongly made and very black; and he

stared

before him on the table like one stupid.

In a commercial town, like New York, the failure of a reputed millionaire, could not long remain a secret, and every body

stared

at the wife and daughter, and me; first, as if they had never seen the wives and daughters of bankrupts before; and second, as if they had never seen them surrounded by the evidences of their extravagance.

Feeling their gaze, she raised her own, and for a moment they

stared

at one another.

Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had

stared

at the fervid sky, and been

stared

at in return, until a staring habit had become universal there.

Fancy his surprise when he noticed that these eyes moved and then

stared

fixedly at him.

There was the house, at any rate–and then suddenly he stopped and

stared

. What was the matter with the house?

During these absences Mrs Verloc, becoming acutely aware of the vacant place at her right hand, missed her mother very much, and

stared

stonily; while Stevie, from the same reason, kept on shuffling his feet, as though the floor under the table were uncomfortably hot.

Astonished by his friend’s unusual heat, Lightwood

stared

too, and then said: ‘What can have become of this man?’

But Father Brown, whether from a professional interest in ritual or a strong individual interest in tomfoolery, stopped and

stared

up at the balcony of the sun-worshipper, just as he might have stopped and

stared

up at a Punch and Judy.

She walked slowly down this place and

stared

at the faces which also seemed to stare at her.

The eyes were as if they had so

stared

for centuries and millenniums.