bescēawian to look round upon, survey, contemplate, consider, watch , Æ, AO: look to, care for .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

d, that nature herself has directed us in our choice, laying down the selfsame thing when she has made some young, others old: the first of whom it becomes to obey, the latter to command; for no one when he is young is offended at his being under government, or thinks himself too good for it; more especially when he considers that he himself shall receive the same honours which he pays when he shall arrive at a proper age.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Scarcely, however, had the tapestry closed behind Athos when she said to Mazarin: “Cardinal, desire them to arrest that insolent fellow before he leaves the court.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“Lower the coverlet a little; I can’t hear what you say.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As long as the dark heresies of Praxeas and Sabellius labored to confound the Father with the Son , the orthodox party might be excused if they adhered more strictly and more earnestly to the distinction , than to the equality , of the divine persons.
— 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

Yet, when we imagine a king attended with every pleasure he can feel, if he be without diversion, and be left to consider and reflect on what he is, this feeble happiness will not sustain him; he will necessarily fall into forebodings of dangers, of revolutions which may happen, and, finally, of death and inevitable disease; so that if he be without what is called diversion, he is unhappy, and more unhappy than the least of his subjects who plays and diverts himself.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Here all was tumult and confusion; the streets were filled with throngs of people—many strangers were there, it seemed, by the looks they cast about—the church-bells rang out their noisy peals, and flags streamed from windows and house-tops.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

for any number of beings, more or less well authenticated, come crowding on her heels, so many indeed that they would point to a far more extensive world of different shapes than is usually suspected, not to speak of inanimate objects like the coach and the ship.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

At the same time practice leads to considerable accuracy in touch and on many occasions the sense is trusted more than sight—e.g., whenever we test the delicacy of an object with our finger-tips.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Joined with this quality is the special merit of Morris—picturesqueness, and so the reader often feels, when he has finished a book by Morris, like the Cook tourist after he has "done" a country of Europe—it must be done again and again to give it its due.
— from The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby

On the other hand, when he had seen into their estates, his lordship found great profit and commodity like to come unto your Majesty by your acceptance of it.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Still, within limits this can be avoided.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

The possibility of the enemy pressing on to Paris was by no means at an end, and even in the eyes of those who had some inside knowledge of what was happening on the different fields of battle the risk was still so great that the French Government had left that capital for Bordeaux some days before.
— from Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France by Gerald Campbell

The dress of every person who was so fortunate as to come in contact with the wigs, like the cameleon, instantly imbibed the colour of the thing it came in collision with; and after a short intimacy, many a full-dress black received a large portion of my silvery hue, and many a splendid manteau participated in the materials which render powder adhesive.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

A dig with the Guanche magada or lanza , the island alpen-stock, either outside or inside the crater, will turn up, under the moist white clay, lovely trimetric crystals of sulphur, with the palest straw tint, deepening to orange, and beautifully disposed in acicular shapes.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

“There’s a fine man to listen to, coming here with a larkum story that he can’t follow up.”
— from The Free Range by Francis William Sullivan

He was a clever, ready, sensible man, equal, as it seemed, to any practical task likely to come in his way, but in reality void of any deep insight, of any far-reaching aspiration, of any profound conviction.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

The answer is, he was no longer the chieftain of any Hellenic clan.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone