look fixedly
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
What La Rochefoucauld said in 1665 is still generally true: "One cannot look fixedly at either the sun or death."
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 Carlyle, Thomas
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
“Hallberg!” echoed the other in a tone that startled the captain, and caused him to turn and look fixedly in the speaker’s face.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
