More wary than the Bear in the fable, the bird, with its perspicacious eye, will recognize the fraud in a moment and proceed to business.
Yet a perspicacious eye might have seen even in these absurd and tasteless productions the signs of a progressive movement--the possibility, at least, of a true advance.
Before me, and on each side, was an expanse of waters violently agitated, and covered with so thick a mist, that the most perspicacious eye could see but a little way.
And if this consistency of idea be really intrinsic and spiritual, and at the same time living and natural, it will be easily recognized in its perspicacious simplicity of form and expression.
I have convinced myself (for the moment) that we had better leave these great changes to what we call great blind forces: their blindness being so much more perspicacious than the little, peering, partial eyesight of men.
This circumstance kept that most perspicacious of all societies, the great world of Paris, ignorant of the affair.
You are more perspicacious than a mother," replied Claude Vignon, still sarcastically.
Simple in habits, strenuous in work and perspicacious in judgment, John Lindley was a warm hearted and generous friend, particularly to young botanists.
They were expected to think well of their rule and their rulers; but the most perspicacious exposure of what he called the infirmities of the company was composed by Mariana.
For no matter how perspicacious the Home Government might from time to time be, they were as much in the hands of their representatives after as they had been before the war.
I have convinced myself (for the moment) that we had better leave these great changes to what we call great blind forces; their blindness being so much more perspicacious than the little, peering, partial eyesight of men.
