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Definition of Look across
1. Verb. Be oriented in a certain direction. "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Across
Literary usage of Look across
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"For two hundred years it had been a Roman colony. After the Romans left, it had
been conquered by the THE NORMANS look across THE CHANNEL ..."
2. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"While the ripples fold upon sands of gold And I look across the sea. ... And the
water's so bright in a still moonlight, As I look across the sea. ..."
3. Christian missions: their agents, their method, and their results by Thomas William M. Marshall (1862)
"... of man's narrow home, the western limit of his wanderings, and may once more
look across the ocean to the land from which we commenced our journey. ..."
4. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"While the ripples fold upon sands of gold And I look across the sea. I stretch
out my hands; who will clasp them? I call,—thou repliest no word: O why ..."
5. A Trip Around Cape Cod: Nantucket, Marthas Vineyard, South Shore, and by Ezra G. Perry (1898)
"... To escape from our "embarrassment of riches" in new villas, let us look across
the Bay, south to Gray Gables, ..."
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