observed

He was a dreamer, an idealist, grounded in the reality he observed around him.

“The four largest banks are nearly 40 percent bigger today than they were just five years ago,” she observed.

“You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist,” Martin Amis has observed.

They possessed “wisdom beyond their years,” observed The Advocate.

He observed that they “seem to cut their characters out with hatchets and to color them with the brushes of house-painters.”

She observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.

In the meantime, the outlaw, having observed how much more cordially the tyrant is received than himself, has made his exit.

One evening, while he was thus engaged, he observed de Patinos and Duke Wharton enter together.

In truth, it was so intently engaged with a sleeping seal that it had not observed the approach of the sledge.

That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire-lattices that defenced them.