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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence “the beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes … till they become transparent.”
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Many persons who look fixedly into a crystal or other vaguely luminous surface fall into a kind of daze, and see visions.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
But, having a half-attentive interest in what she read, he would look fixedly at her and try to piece together his jumbled recollections.
From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
