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Example sentences for "eyesight"

Lexicographically close words:
eyelids; eyelike; eyen; eyepiece; eyes; eyesore; eyestrain; eyewitness; eyewitnesses; eyght
  1. But when the humour, that obscured his sight, Valiant Astolpho scaled, and now restored Was the blind sovereign's eyesight as before, He would that warrior as a god adore.

  2. God grant, fair sir, he never may confound Your eyesight with his semblance foul and stern!

  3. Eyesight is too precious to be tampered with.

  4. The eyesight of criminals was found by Bono to be superior to the normal.

  5. It is a most extraordinary thing that men who have such bad eyesight that they have to wear very strong glasses and even then blink and are half-blind in the sunlight, can shoot very well in those dark coal cellar shooting galleries.

  6. Evidently the idea is the longer the aim the more accurate it is, forgetting that human muscles and eyesight tire, and that fast moving objects cannot be hit with a stationary aim.

  7. The shooter pays for the pleasure of ruining his eyesight and ears, pays for the target, pays for the cartridges, pays for the hire of a dirty, greasy, worn out old revolver.

  8. If you cannot shoot in daylight do not shoot at all; you will only ruin your eyesight and never learn to shoot properly.

  9. Whatever pistol you use, have it fitted with a big silver front bead sight placed close to the barrel, no matter how large it is, if your eyesight needs it large to see instantly in a bad light.

  10. After his attack of fever, unable to regain his strength owing to insufficient food and the unhealthiness of the part of the city where he had elected to live, Hearn's eyesight became affected.

  11. So Lafcadio Hearn, though gifted with only half the eyesight of ordinary folk, was by the prescience of his genius enabled to see not only the visible world that the Frenchman saw, but an immaterial and spiritual world as well.

  12. A Bohemian love of vagabondage, picking up impressions here and there, some of which were set down in pencil, some in ink; as far as his eyesight would permit, many were the sketches made at this time.

  13. When he arrived there he placed at once the herb on the old man's eyes, and in a moment his eyesight came back, to his exceeding surprise and joy.

  14. The prince said, 'I want nothing except to keep my own eyes, and to restore eyesight to that poor old man.

  15. Twa craft a sailing without hand to guide them, in sic a place as this, whar' eyesight is na guid enough to show the dangers, bodes evil to a' that luik thereon.

  16. But still you say reason: give me your arm, sergeant, and lead the way to the east wing; my eyesight is good for nothing in such a dark night.

  17. A trouble in his eyesight (such as many students think it necessary to have, nowadays, in order to prove their diligence at their books) had kept him from college a week or two after the beginning of the term.

  18. Three Gray Women, all in a breath; for they were terribly frightened, of course, at hearing a strange voice, and discovering that their eyesight had got into the hands of they could not guess whom.

  19. But, in my private opinion, old Philemon's eyesight had been playing him tricks again.

  20. His eyesight remained as good as ever, he simply couldn’t remember that he had ever seen things before.

  21. The real fact is, however, that the horse goes straight home thru darkness and storm, not because his eyesight is good, but because it is poor.

  22. You think the chances of his keeping his eyesight are poor?

  23. She looked after the carriage which contained the bridal party; she thought how the bridegroom had almost lost his eyesight to save her, and her old adoration of Cynthia seemed to rise to a flood-tide.

  24. His sharpened eyesight sees Jesus from afar, and, with the disordered haste and preternatural agility which marked all his movements, he runs towards Him.

  25. Now this part of the cave was lighted by lamps upon tall iron stands, so that everything was clearly visible, even to Jurgen, whose eyesight had of late years failed him.

  26. I never have been bothered with short eyesight myself.

  27. It appeared then, for further explanation, that his hearing as well as his eyesight was none of the best.

  28. It no longer scorched their faces, but slanted in rays through the upper boughs, dappling the open walks with splashes of light which, as they receded in distance, took by a trick of the eyesight a pattern regular as diaper.

  29. His eyesight had grown dimmer, but otherwise his bodily health had improved, for nowadays he ate food enough: and, as for purblindness, why there was no real need to keep watch on the sea.

  30. The external appearance of the village is that of abject poverty; and, on entering it, one readily sees that his eyesight has not deceived him, but that his first impressions are fully realized.

  31. Shimei; "I had thought you dazed In eyesight only, but distempered mind You show now, taking this high strain with me.

  32. His description ends by saying, "He lived to be an hundred, and never lost his eyesight nor used spectacles.

  33. His eyesight was never better; I have his word for it.

  34. Farinata answered that so it was; just as there was a kind of eyesight which could discern things at a distance though not at hand.

  35. Bathe your eyes in that water and your lost eyesight will be restored at once.

  36. The king's eyesight was restored immediately when he had bathed his eyes in the water from the fountain of Giantland.

  37. If my bodily eyesight were as good as yours, perhaps I could not see things so distinctly with my mind’s eye.

  38. Your eyesight was a precious gift of Heaven, it is true; but you would do wrong to be miserable for its loss, even if there were no hope of regaining it.

  39. My eyesight had now grown as strong as that of other men.

  40. The blind hear where those with eyesight can detect nothing.

  41. We who possess our eyesight cannot imagine the great disadvantages under which the blind are placed.

  42. If he'd had his full eyesight he might have noticed some difference, but as it was, it was as much as the poor old chap, she believed, could see there was a driver at all.

  43. We got a few knocks and scrapes against the trees, but, partly through the horses being pretty clever in their kind of way, and having sharpish eyesight of our own, we pulled through.

  44. I have sent my messengers in your white locks, your failing eyesight and hearing, the wrinkles on your cheeks.

  45. Indeed no person with good eyesight would have called the princess pretty at that moment, with her face all red and swollen with much weeping.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyesight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.