Sentence:  He <WSD>looked</WSD> round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To try to see, to pay attention to with one's eyes.