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Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (chiefly heraldry) Gazing; standing so as to stare (especially of deer); statant guardant. (Compare at bay.)
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
- When he wished to draw Harvey's attention to the peak-halyards, he dug his knuckles into the back of the boy's neck and kept him at gaze for half a minute.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Lord John was standing at gaze with his finger on the trigger of his elephant-gun, his eager hunter's soul shining from his fierce eyes.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 52:
- They were prick-eared animals, roused by her voice from their business and standing now at gaze.