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  • “I be thinking that mayhaps we better be alooking into these native deeds.”

    Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

  • Guess I've seen a panther, and I ought to know how his eyes look in the dark -- just like you've seen the old cat alooking at you to home, when you went into a dark room.

    The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter

  • Unity could overhear, “I see a young woman alooking out of window, who I think may accost me.

    Life's Little Ironies 2006

  • His daughter’s at home, sitting alooking at the fire.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • “Now, Tai-Pan,” Scragger had said uncomfortably, forcing a laugh, “that not be the way of alooking at ’is invitation like.

    Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

  • "Yes," added Davy, quickly, "if they're alooking around for chances to gobble us up, one by one, first it'd be Bumpus, then our scout-master, and then another of the bunch, till we all got caught.

    The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers Herbert Carter

  • Unity could overhear, “I see a young woman alooking out of window, who I think may accost me.

    A Few Crusted Characters 1891

  • I just see'd that chap with the tall hat alooking at it suspicious. "

    Allan and the Holy Flower Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • '"My dear Milly -- my coming wife, as I may call' ee, "says Tony in his modest way, and not so loud that Unity could overhear," I see a young woman alooking out of window, who I think may accost me.

    Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884

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