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Definition of Look out on
1. Verb. Be oriented in a certain direction. "The apartment overlooks the Hudson"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Out On
Literary usage of Look out on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... keeping always a sharp look-out on Oregon, which a noiseless and growing
current of agricultural immigration was filling with hands and hearts the ..."
2. Thackeray's Haunts and Homes by Eyre Crowe (1897)
"views from the windows are a delight, as you look out on the island-dotted bay.
Thackeray's footsteps bring us to his next book of travels, in the East. ..."
3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... though the town is full of strangers, he has secured agreeable apartments for
us, from which we have a look-out on the Duomo, its Campanile, Baptistery, ..."
4. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With by Delany (Mary) (1862)
"I will look out on Sunday. Tlie Marchioness of Tweeddale to Mrs. Port, of Ham.
MY DEAR MRS. PORT, Ham, Aug. 19th, 1781. I hope this will find you quite ..."
5. Personal Recollections of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1893)
"In reality a successful watch could not be carried out by us. it could only be
done by natives, who would certainly not have kept a better look out on our ..."
6. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"I long to talk in a language in which I can talk: and I want my own things around
me, our own fields to look out on, my own roof over my head. ..."
7. The Far Interior: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good by Walter Montagu Kerr (1886)
"... tsetse Hy—Supplies exhausted—Mam has a full stomach—Teeth filing and tattoo
marks—An odd cup of milk—The "look-out" on the lake—Fishes—A sick chief; ..."
8. Wreck Inquiries: The Law and Practice Relating to Formal Investigations in by Walter Murton (1884)
"The report of the Court found that the collision was attributable to an inefficient
look-out on board the steamship, for which the master of ..."
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