Sentence:  It <WSD>looked</WSD> as Gavin had first seen it years ago , on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon 's wind - a savage land , untenanted and brooding , too strong to be broken by the will of men . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect