Stealing gently down the little stairs, and assuming the air of some early lounger who had dropped in from the street, he walked up to the foot of each pedestal in turn, and attentively examined the figure it supported.
Gideon Spilett, Pencroft, and Herbert attentively examined this land, on which they might perhaps have to live many long years; on which indeed they might even die, should it be out of the usual track of vessels, as was likely to be the case.
Pencroft and Herbert attentively examined the cavities in the granite, and they really found eggs in some of the hollows.
The jeweller examined attentively the interior of the inn and the apparent poverty of the persons who were about to sell him a diamond that seemed to have come from the casket of a prince.
And he attentively examined with his infallible eye the shape and capabilities of the courser.
This was as well; the butler examined attentively everything in the outer room.
Up to this time there had been nothing very new in the aspect of the phenomena as a whole; but on examining attentively the internal arrangement of all these materials, especially in the neighborhood of the sea, one soon becomes convinced that the ocean has partially covered and more or less remodeled them.
To be convinced about it, it is enough to attentively examine the monthly reports of work of Mietzsch and Klarer during years 1935-1936 and especially the Log Book of G. Domagk: the formula of sulphamide is consigned there - without comment - not before January 1936.
"They are not mussels," replied Herbert, who was attentively examining the molluscs attached to the rocks; "they are lithodomes."
Nevertheless, James Playfair, with telescope in his hand, was attentively examining the route to be followed.