Citations:observe


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then the Judge called to the jury (who all this while stood by, to hear and observe): Gentlemen of the jury, you see this man about whom so great an uproar hath been made in this town.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body.
 * Clerval, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter, was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving new from my friends.
 * I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But nothing doubting that to whomsoever they applied they had some latent moral for his own improvement, he resolved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw; and especially to observe the shadow of himself when it appeared.