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glance over

verb
  1. to quickly inspect something (newspaper, notes) with the eyes (transitive)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see glance, over. · He glanced over (at her).
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“Yes,” answered Diana, stifling a giggle with an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed sitting-room door.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 154 · C1
Then she ventured to open her eyelids, and glance over her extended arm.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 999 · C1

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