beholder

behold | American Dictionary

behold
verb[ T ]
us/bɪˈhoʊld/past tense and past participlebeheldus/bɪˈheld/
literature
to see or look at:
He looked up and beheld the stranger sitting across the table, smiling a secret smile.

Examples of behold

behold
He was tall of stature, though aged, and although lean, so noble of countenance and visage that he was a marvel to behold.
The book itself is lovely to behold, with an attractive font and appealing 'illuminated' initials beginning each chapter.
We behold his impact in all phenomena without any exception.
She beholds her transformation in the mirror of time.
Once we behold and are beholden to the painting, we cannot escape its call, a call that is as profoundly moral as it is aesthetic.
As both armies waited for sunrise, a tempest arose and the dawn was darkened by dust clouds, so that men could scarce behold one another.
Within optimistic concepts it became possible to revel in nature, to individually feel joy while beholding a landscape or a microscopic animal.
The day is beginning already: behold her, giving you various colours in branches, grass and flowers.
Having beheld the specular reflection and having speculated on it, writing enters a state where nothing can be said anymore.
Recall the bee and behold her wondrous mystery, how from the flowers scattered throughout the earth she accomplishes her work.
Just to be on the safe side, we expand the solution, only to find that, lo and behold, the order of (6.11) is four.
Imagination will be gloomily exercised in beholding you sick, wounded, shipwrecked or a captive !
The correct balance between being beholden to local interests and having local knowledge provides an important practical justification for territorial constituencies. 116.
In his view, nationality was not pre-determined, and states, correlatively, were not beholden to singularized, essentialized notions of nation.
Their electoral success meant that they were not beholden to the party for their seats.
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