look fixedly
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What La Rochefoucauld said in 1665 is still generally true: "One cannot look fixedly at either the sun or death."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The subject is asked to look fixedly at the operator's right eye, and the operator stares fixedly at the subject's left eye, at the same time grasping his hands firmly.
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When he came round, if you asked him his name he would look fixedly at you and say "Yes."
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
"Mother!" cried the girl, drawing out her needle to the full length of her thread before she let her hand drop nervelessly at her side, and she fell back to look fixedly at Mrs. Saunders.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Howells, William Dean
He who knows not what thing is Paradise, Let him look fixedly on Myrrha's eyes.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes