In the later stages at any rate the war could not be regarded at first sight as a religious one, but at the same time it is to be regretted that Urban VIII.
There is an irreverence, at first sight, in calling him son of Cronos (who is a proverb for stupidity), and we might rather expect Zeus to be the child of a mighty intellect.
To Molly Wood he was a stranger; but she had seen his eyes when he nodded to her lover, and she knew, even without the pistol, that this was not enmity at first sight.
And now he was invited to defend that which, at first sight, nay, even at second and third sight, must always seem a defiance of the law more injurious than crime itself.
At first sight, this would have appeared merely a wise precaution in a man of sedentary habits, with the view of opening the chest and strengthening the muscles of the arms.
The distinction between images and sensations might seem at first sight by no means difficult.
The fact is that a great deal of what, at first sight, distinguishes psychology from physics is found, on examination, to be common to psychology and physiology; this whole question of the influence of experience is a case in point.
In order, therefore, to arrive at what really is sensation in an occurrence which, at first sight, seems to contain nothing else, we have to pare away all that is due to habit or expectation or interpretation.
It was an instance, on both sides, of love at first sight.
The fairies are sometimes shy; and this little fairy doesn't take to strangers at first sight.
This idea is no novelty, though it seems so at first sight.
I trust I have vindicated the apparent inconsequence of teaching young students a good deal that seems at first sight profitless, but which helps them to learn and retain what is profitable.
There is a class of minds much more ready to believe that which is at first sight incredible, and because it is incredible, than what is generally thought reasonable.
A medical entry in Governor Winthrop's journal may seem at first sight a mere curiosity; but, rightly interpreted, it is a key to his whole system of belief as to the order of the universe and the relations between man and his Maker.
I came to a village, the inhabitants of which could not at first sight be distinguished from the dwellers in our land.
Reversing the usual course of perception in such meetings, I thought them, at first sight, very unlike; and at the second glance, knew that they were brothers.
They do not fall in love with every meretricious extravagance at first sight, or mistake an old battered hypothesis for a vestal, because they are new to the ways of this old world.
I do not indeed swear by an opinion because it is old; but neither do I fall in love with every extravagance at first sight because it is new.
The divinity-student wished to know what I thought of affinities, as well as of antipathies; did I believe in love at first sight?
Squinting brains are a great deal more common than we should at first sight believe.
And there are a good many more of these than it would seem at first sight.
I'll tell you how it is with the pictures of women we fall in love with at first sight.
But supposing any one do take offence at first sight, let him look over these notes again, and see whether he is quite sure he does not agree with most of these things that were said amongst us.
My dear fellow, do you really think you are the sort of man who impresses a woman unfavorably at first sight?
She had often told Stanley since that she would never forget her first sight (she had not yet had another) of Tod's wife.
And as Soames stood looking at her, the sensation that most men have felt at one time or another went stealing through him--a peculiar satisfaction of the senses, a peculiar certainty, which novelists and old ladies call love at first sight.
First sight of blood, and you're like all the rest of them!
But Jon, whose room had once been his day nursery, lay awake too, the prey of a sensation disputed by those who have never known it, "love at first sight!
But possibly that may only be the impression he makes at first sight.
But there was at first sight something so strange about the woman in front of him, that gradually his attention was riveted upon her, at first reluctantly and, as it were, resentfully, and then more and more intently.
At first sight, Raskolnikov did not recognise her.
But, talking of foolishness, do you know Praskovya Pavlovna is not nearly so foolish as you would think at first sight?
The act of nature in such cases is known as love at first sight; and in love, first sight is practically second sight.
But I fell in love with him in five minutes, as you fell in love with mamma at first sight.
I am not much given to liking anybody at first sight, but these people impressed me much more favourably than I should have thought possible, so that I could not fear them as I scanned their faces one after another.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first sight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
