Sighted

Examples

• I am rather short-sighted. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I do not mean to say that I am particularly observant or quick-sighted in general, but in such a case I am sure I could not be deceived. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Love is sharp-sighted. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Julia put her glass to her eye as usual; being remarkably short-sighted she could distinguish nothing without it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He lay back and sighted with the automatic rifle as the planes came on steadily. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There must be something short-sighted in the eternal arrangements, surely! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I would not change you for the clearest-headed, longest-sighted, best-judging female breathing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Few of these islets contained over an acre of ground, but presently we sighted a much larger one directly ahead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As Pablo came toward them Robert Jordan sighted on the bend but nothing came. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But the beneficiaries of privilege, the Bourbon reactionaries, the short-sighted ultra-conservatives, turned down Turgot; and then found that instead of him they had obtained Robespierre. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The first person who addressed her was one Mr. Trench; a certain short-sighted, pedantic man, whom most people know about town. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Not too strongly for the offencebut far, far too strongly to issue from any feeling softer than upright justice and clear-sighted goodwill. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He feels no envy nor jealousy; his mark is too far distant to be seen by short-sighted malevolence, and therefore it is never aimed at. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was dusk and Mr. Philander was very near sighted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He was not in general a lady's man, though all ladies liked him; something of a book-worm he was, near-sighted, spectacled, now and then abstracted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Where was the wit of the sharp-sighted men of sound mind? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In Fig. 269 is shown a 6-inch rapid-fire gun of the United States Navy, loaded, and being sighted for fire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She sighted Pablo through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Unfortunately for her, she had lost her glasses in the scuffle, and as she was extremely short-sighted she was really helpless without them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She was, in fact, so reserved, so shy, and so short-sighted, that, not being very young, nobody would be at the trouble of finding out what she was. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• On all points but one you are a man, frank, healthful, right-thinkingclear-sighted: on this exceptional point you are but a slave. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Too much, I said and held up the glass and sighted at the lamp on the table. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• At dawn, after an all-night pursuit, it was sighted far ahead. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On the other hand, the control afforded by the customs and regulations of others may be short-sighted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ballot is at the utmost a beginning, as far-sighted conservatives have guessed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Then she sighted Pablo again. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We travelled very fast and very far due south until the morning of the fifth day we sighted a great fleet of battleships sailing north. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Really, John, one would have thought Miss Hale had done enough to make you clear-sighted. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He is described towards the end of his life as red, bald, and short-sighted; but his features were good and pleasing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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