1.   As I gazed on this incongruous tableau, however, the scene gradually took on a more sinister aspect.

2.   He rubbed his eyes and gazed out on the flat green countryside below.

3.   Riders avoid our faces, and gaze down on our skull crowns where the bone jigsaw cleaves.

4.   There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gaunt features.

5.   Alvin Romans wants to gaze on the photograph of his mother that is framed in a grandfather clock that chimes every hour.

6.   And, so up stepped Ammann again, red-cheeked and fresh-faced, still looking amazed to be gazing down on everyone else.

7.   As Kennedy gazed out on the breaking surf from the Lawford home, he could not resist slipping into his trunks and dashing for the ocean.

8.   Astronomers and the possessed amateur Percival Lowell gazed on Mars and professed to see signs there of a canal-building civilization fallen on hard times.

9.   A satiny brunette gazes down on frazzled commuters on the Periferico Norte freeway, pumps a bicep, and touts the only article of clothing she wears.

10.   But for me, gazing on the oldness, the wornness, the scuffed and torn surfaces of those bags felt like a collision with the past itself.