← After exchanging a few words, I said with a glance to the open book, "I see I am interrupting you," and was about to pass on, 🔊
← Soames took up the book and glanced through the pages. 🔊
← Anybody who knew him would have recognized the portrait at a glance, but nobody who didn't know him would have recognized the portrait from its bystander: it "existed" so much more than he; it was bound to. 🔊
← I glanced at the writing on it—some sort of gibberish, apparently. 🔊