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  • Pleasant grounds, genteel accommodation, salubrious out-look, company's own water no doubt, to suit overworked military man in need of rest and recreation.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • The branches of an oak-tree, which shot straight out from the face of a tall cliff, proffered to his bold spirit, steady head, and active limbs, the means of ascending it as a place of out-look, although the enterprise was what most men would have shrunk from.

    The Monastery 2008

  • You were someone who changed peoples out-look on lives.

    zach-lett Diary Entry zach-lett 2005

  • Much depends on how that contest comes to be assessed by the nonparticipants in it—but much also depends on the degree to which the victorious contestants succeed in projecting their own historically successful global political out-look.

    Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

  • Are stemming in the main from our Western out-look and our Western religion.

    The Free World Partnership 1951

  • The horrors of our situation increased; the man on the out-look called out that he saw breakers a-head in every direction, and escape appeared to be next to impossible.

    Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2) John M'lean

  • Into his creations, Shakespeare pours wide and overflowing knowledge of life; there is nothing narrow or shut in, in his conceptions, but every character is alive in the great sense, illustrating no narrow precept or trite morality, no cut and dried scheme of a petty out-look on life, but the great morals of life itself, as varied, as intangible and as inexplicable.

    Cobwebs of Thought Arachne

  • A bath and hair cut will change the out-look of life.

    Supreme Personality Delmer Eugene Croft

  • As it was -- well, the unrelieved discomforts were beginning to warp her out-look on everything.

    Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • You could have found men at the Frankish court of Charlemagne who were Romans in their habits, in their manners, in their out-look upon life.

    The Story of Mankind 1921

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