"Do I look like I'm kidding?"
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
“Now, do it look like it?”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Up to this time the fronts of the French armies had been large,—either to procure subsistence more easily, or because the generals thought it better to put all the divisions in line, leaving it to their commanders to arrange them for battle.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de
As she delivered it, Legree looked in her eyes with a sneering yet inquiring glance.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Do I look like it?
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg
Umuulan tingáli run dà, It looks like it is going to rain.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
De Institutione Laicorum, l. ii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
Aunt Juley tried to say something pleasant: “And how will dear Irene like living in the country?” June gazed at her intently, with a look in her eyes as if her conscience had suddenly leaped up into them; it passed; and an even more intent look took its place, as if she had stared that conscience out of countenance.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy
Dressed in light linen, I was hardly in a fit state to walk along the wharf for an hour in such weather.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
They had an early start after all, and, the wagon doubling back after depositing its load late in the afternoon to bring on the second boat, they all made camp on the summit not far from the lake that evening.
— from The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Emerson Hough
‘Do I look like it?’
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
On the following Tuesday he went down into Litany Lane in company with a builder, and proceeded to investigate each of the houses.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing
His ear-lobes are always stretched to hang down in long loops, in which small medals, ornaments, decorated blocks of wood, or the like, are inserted.
— from African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
[Distracted] It looks like it, though.
— from Plays : Fourth Series by John Galsworthy
Do I look like I needed help?”
— from Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance
Hate in a devil is like Love in an Angel—uncaused, or self-causing; it is his natural function—his Essence, his Being.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850 by Various
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