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Example sentences for "one sees"

  • He had the fine carriage that marked his father, and still further resembled him in that he had the Derrick nose--hawk-like and prominent, such as one sees in the later portraits of the Duke of Wellington.

  • His long, black hair, such as one sees in the saints and evangelists of the pre-Raphaelite artists, hung over his ears.

  • One sees, at any rate, quite all of the provinces of South Holland, with the Zuyder Zee to the north, and a part of Guelderland and North Brabant.

  • Later, in the eighth century, came the modified Byzantine form which one sees at Aix-la-Chapelle.

  • At its best it is seldom seen on the exterior, but on inside walls and porticoes, notably at Bruchsal on the Rhine, one sees a frankly theatrical arrangement of ornate details.

  • A modern altar, in the mediaeval style, has replaced the seventeenth-century Renaissance work, which is manifestly for the better, judging from the old engravings that one sees of the former unlovely altar.

  • Not so cosmopolitan a crew as one sees in the harbour-side drinking-places at Marseilles, or even at Havre, but sufficiently strange to be a fascination to one who has just come down from the headwaters.

  • Here one comes upon hedgerows and an occasional bit of stone wall, quite as one sees them in England.

  • Here when one does actually run into a flock of geese, such as one sees on the high-coloured posters advertising a certain make of car, and in the comic journals, it is one of the real humours of life.

  • One sees an analogy in the fortunes of the Boethian translations of the more advanced treatises of Aristotle's Organon.

  • Having followed Hugo's plan thus far, one sees why it is only at the commencement of the ninth Part of his first Book that he reaches the definition and discussion of those final and enduring sacraments which followed the Incarnation.

  • One sees Hildebert's sympathetic point of view; he entirely approves of William's renunciation of the world--a good bishop of the twelfth century might also have wished to renounce its troublous honours!

  • There are other beautiful things in the Bargello of which I have said nothing--a gallery of mediaeval bells most exquisitely designed, from famous steeples; cases of carved ivory; and many of such treasures as one sees at the Cluny in Paris.

  • One sees him, as ever, thinking of everything: not a very remarkable attribute of the fresco painter since then, but very remarkable then, when any kind of facile saintliness sufficed.

  • The "Primavera" is not wearing too well: one sees that at once.

  • One sees things so clearly, one hankers so after the power of translating and expressing emotion and beauty, that the danger is of losing proportion, of subordinating everything to the personal value of experience.

  • But always, as leaves and fruit fall and bare the twigs, one sees, among the winter buds, the half-grown acorns waiting for their second season of growth.

  • The full beauty of the species is seen only in cultivation, as one sees it in the Arnold Arboretum, and in private gardens near Boston.

  • Looking up from below, one sees a charming iridescent effect when the blossoms add their color to the shimmering silver which lines the various platforms of foliage.

  • One sees few if any signs of poverty here.

  • One sees a few women, but scarcely any men, present on ordinary occasions.

  • One sees in the Pyrenees and the St. Gothard Pass similar cascades flowing down from the mountains towards the valleys, except that in the one instance the crystal waters are liquid, in the other they are quite congealed.

  • One sees a cat walking on its hind legs driving a flock of geese, while a wolf carrying a staff and knapsack leads a herd of goats.

  • One sees representations of the women in a rich man's harem amusing themselves by dancing and singing.

  • One sees representations of girls, their heads thrown back and their long hair flying, merrily twanging a guitar as they skip round the room.

  • One sees representations of this with great frequency upon the walls of the tombs.

  • These gardens which greet one on emerging from the station, are like the beautiful initial letters one sees on old manuscripts, all glittering in gold and colors, inviting one to peruse and value the precious pages.

  • It was my second visit to Salt Lake, a place which has always interested me because of the social and religious problems which one sees there.

  • Quite different from the others--one sees that.

  • One can take a good many steps on a dark night, if one sees a friendly gleam in a window here and there.

  • Nearer, one sees that it is a soldier, guarding three prisoners.

  • He whom I thus see again, as precisely as one sees a portrait, just as he was that evening so wonderfully far away, was my father.

  • One sees nothing of it as one approaches save the minarets above, and in the narrow, crowded lane an outer portal.

  • One sees sometimes (even in 1890) in the eyes of old men sitting in the mosques the original spirit of Islam shining still.

  • The gable points at the top of the western façade are such as one sees in the restoration of the Baths of Caracalla.

  • Air - A great windmill such as one sees in Frank Brangwyn's etchings (for he lived during his youth in the windmill country, making what he saw around him his own).

  • The green domes on the palace belong to the Byzantine school of architecture, such domes as one sees in the mosques of Constantinople and other Mohammedan centers.

  • At the side of the tower, holding the same position on the tower as does the Crusader, are suggestions of the crusader's tomb such as one sees in many of the English churches.

  • Below the niches are facsimiles of old Roman baths such as one sees in the Lateran Museum, in Rome.

  • Then they will say: 'Now we understand him; now one sees how he got all his inspiration in that lovely old school and the wonderful English country-side.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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