The child had regarded it with the vacant eyes he turned on anything that was offered him.
This is the fashionable contemporary view; but the fact remains that such children, whether or not we regard them as monsters, did exist.
The child had regarded his mother with curiosity as though her presence here, somehow, needed to be explained.
But parents, children and young people do not regard coming into residential care as an admission of failure.
The result was that children often regarded the nurse as their true mother.
And Qisib, who happened to be in the room, realized that the child did not regard himself as a human being.
The simple natives knew him for a friend who never failed them, and regarded him as children regard a father.
His wife and children regarded the two bravos with wide, worshipful eyes.
According to those who remember the period, the many children in the street regarded her as a figure of fun, and taunted her.
He motioned again, but the child regarded him with dark, empty eyes and did not come closer.