observe
verb (used with object)
to see, watch, perceive, or notice.
observingly
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a word derived from
observe.
Example Sentences
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“There is some soul of goodness in things evil; Would men observingly distill it out.”
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
In spite of her agitation she forced herself to study it observingly, making note that it was tied with strong cord and sealed in several places with red wax.
From The Apartment Next Door by William Andrew Johnston
Clive's friend had been looking on observingly and curiously as the scene between them had taken place, and at the dance with which the reconciliation had been celebrated.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
This last property, any one that hath been observingly conversant about fluid Bodies, cannot be ignorant of.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out, is a comprehensive maxim, which sounds as if it came straight from Shakespeare's lips.
From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee
