The boy did not know, as he limped up and down the water's edge, longing for some word from his absent friends, that near by was one who watched almost as eagerly as himself.
— from Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

"The roof looks like a sieve," said John Kilburn, as he looked up and saw the holes.
— from Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

She shrank back, as if all the strength had been drained from her knees, as he lurched unsteadily across toward her and reached out his arms.
— from Once to Every Man by Larry Evans

," said the king, and he looked up at his favorite with so sharp and piercing a glance that Fredersdorf involuntarily trembled, and cast his eyes to the ground.
— from Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

He had laid his cheek against the Countess's knees, and he looked up at her with a tenderness touched with sadness, less ardently than a short time before, when he had been separated from her by her daughter, her husband, and Musadieu.
— from Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant

A man stood in the kitchen, and he looked up and saw me—such a horrible-looking ruffian, too.
— from J. Cole by Emma Gellibrand

Great Numbers of the Natives, who are Criminals, and not executed after Condemnation, are chain’d by Pairs, and kept at hard Labour under a Guard, perpetually clearing the Canals and Moats round the City, or any other Labour for the publick.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

"The Germans call it a dove, eh?" remarked the King, as he looked up at the passing aircraft.
— from Fighting in Flanders by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

"We both left him standing somewhat dazed, but I tell you—" The letter dropped to Thomas Strong's knee, as he looked up and out at the closing day.
— from Story of Chester Lawrence Being the Completed Account of One who Played an Important Part in "Piney Ridge Cottage" by Nephi Anderson