beholds

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Immortal Nelson! still with fond amaze, Thy glorious deeds each British eye surveys, Beholds thee still, on conquer'd floods afar: Fate's flaming shaft! the thunderbolt of war!

From Poetic Sketches by Gent, Thomas

With calm brow lifted o'er the sea, his eye Beholds Troy's navy scattered far and nigh, And by the waves and ruining heaven oppressed The Trojan crews.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

The dazzled eye, fill’d with the novel blaze Beholds, astonished, their refracted rays.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton

While Turnus and th' allies thus urge the war, The Trojan, floating in a flood of care, Beholds the tempest which his foes prepare.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

As is given Unto this child the father watching o'er, His angel up in heaven Beholds Our Father's face for evermore.

From The Adventures of A Brownie As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock