beheld

He and countless others who had tuned in via social media beheld the flames with awe as they silhouetted a seemingly doomed ski lift terminal.

I looked my first upon human royalty and beheld her grandeur.

But ordinary Russians beheld the Lockshins’ bright, hopeful faces on the news with disbelief and derision.

She hiked uphill from her riverside worksite and beheld a vista of sheer mountain slopes unbroken by rivers or streams.

Howsare argues that what Europeans beheld was the opposite of paradise — in fact “a landscape in crisis.”