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Example sentences for "second sight"

  • Presently I shall have to speak of the service this rendered me in my experiment of second sight.

  • Without the slightest appearance of collusion, a Greek can tell his partner every card his opponent holds in his hand by a system similar to that of my "second sight.

  • We may compare this phase of belief with that which is commonly known in this country as second sight.

  • Aunt Janet's Second Sight on the subject was comforting, though grim, and in a measure disconcerting.

  • It may have been that her power of Second Sight had to rest on some basis of knowledge or belief, and that her vision was but some intuitive perception of my own subjective thought.

  • Later still, when I was by myself on the cliff beyond the creek, I could not help commenting on the absence of her power of Second Sight on the occasion.

  • Then," I said interrogatively "Second Sight is altogether a matter of chance?

  • Is it that one with the Gift o' Second Sight has no an understandin' o' it.

  • I beg leave now to say something upon second sight, of which I have related two instances,[1067] as they impressed my mind at the time.

  • It is but just, however, to add, that the belief in second sight is not peculiar to the Highlands and Isles.

  • I made some remark that seemed to imply a belief in second sight.

  • His fame, which has been sung by writers of magic without number since his death, rests principally on the invention of second sight, suspension, and the writing and drawing automaton.

  • I rested my head in my hands, and in my excitement laid down the first principles of second sight.

  • This trick of second sight he claims body and soul, as the favorite child of his brain.

  • Still, as if this was not enough, Vranic possessed the gift of second sight, if it can be called a gift.

  • Milena shuddered and grew deathly pale; though she was not gifted with second sight, she saw in her mind's eye something so dreadful that it almost made her faint with terror.

  • Robert Heller saw Houdin give an exhibition of "second sight" in London.

  • This simple game suggested to me the most complicated idea that ever crossed my mind--'second sight.

  • He had heard in the old days of Kerry's second sight, and now he laughed at it.

  • Could it be possible that there was something in the blind woman's second sight?

  • Second sight, as it is called, is of a very puzzling character indeed.

  • Robert Heller was also a capital exponent of second sight, with the assistance of his sister; and the Taylors, father and son, a few years ago astonished the lieges with their most befogging entertainment at the Polytechnic.

  • My ex-fairy godmother at my christening bestowed on me the gift of second sight," explained Florimel, "so that I have always been able to see things no one else could.

  • Would she have bestowed on him the gift of second sight and at the same time taken away his size?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fair maid; grating sound; mental qualities; second attempt; second base; second battalion; second causes; second course; second expedition; second lieutenant; second line; second look; second marriage; second only; second period; second sight; second stage; second thoughts; second vice; second wife; secondary consideration; secondary importance; secondary school; secondary sexual; secondary syphilis; will destroy