surveying
/sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/ noun B2- The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.
Plural surveyings
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“Well now, she shouldn’t have taken the brooch, Marilla, or told stories about it,” he admitted, mournfully surveying his plateful of unromantic pork and greens as if he, like Anne, thought it a food unsuited to crises of feeling, “but she’s such a little thing--such an interesting little thing.
Elizabeth, after slightly surveying it, went to a window to enjoy its prospect.
Ah, my friend!” said the abbé, turning towards Dantès, and surveying him with the kindling gaze of a prophet, “you are young, you will see all this come to pass.”
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