Instead of joy, he was filled with the sense of dissatisfaction which overpowers a man standing at a crossing in the roads, who sees before him three goals, yet can be fully content with neither.
The point is that the roof shall stand until the architect, the Queen, sees and approves it.
Cleopatra; but again Lucilius's loyal heart throbbed with resentment against the woman who had fostered the recklessness which had brought his powerful friend to ruin, and he continued: "But he often sees himself in a different light.
A noble heart whichsees itself forced to pity a foe, easily forgives; and was she ever your enemy?
She sees this, grieves over it, and leaves no means of rousing him to fresh energy untried; yet how rarely he rallies his powers to earnest labour!
The girl follows his example, and clings fast only to the doll in which she sees the living child, in order to do justice to the maternal instinct, the token of her sex.
The stranger who sees her in his company believes her a happy woman.
He appears and vanishes at will, is as alert as he is rich, sees and hears everything, and manages to secure the best places.
I'm told he's a guy who will do the noble thing if he sees a reason for it.
Now as soon as God sees this desire in you, is He not kind, is He not wise, in appointing such trials as He knows will lead to this end?
He sees how unworldly, how devoted I am, and so wants Laura under my influence.
Her eyes were of that lovely blue one sees in violets and the skies, with long, soft eye-lashes, and her complexion was as pure as a baby's.
It is true he sees my faults; anybody can, who looks.
For a sufferer he certainly is who sees a great and good and terrible God who cannot look upon iniquity, and does not see His risen Son, who has paid the debt we owe, and lives to intercede for us before the throne of the Father.
But if God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.
But now by the time I am dressed, baby is ready to go out to get the air; he knows the minute he sees me bring out his little hat that he is going to see his father and he's awful fond of his father.
What pains me is that this child, full of life and gayety as she is, sees death approach without that becoming awe and terror which befits mortal man.
A crowned knight enters and goes to battle with Gauvain; canons and clerks come and perform the Vigil of the Dead; whilst at table Gauvain sees the rich Grail serving out bread and wine to the knights.
On the morrow the hero seesno one, and finds all the doors open.
Arthur sees the likeness to his father, laments over the latter's untimely fate, and recalls that books say the son should avenge the father's bane.
Perceval learns the way to Carduel from a charcoal-burner; arrived there, he sees a knight coming forth from the castle and bearing a golden cup in his hand, clad in red armour, who complains of Arthur as having robbed him of his land.
Perceval having slain the stag, sees its head carried off-- Si vint une veille sor un palestoi Une puciele de malaire grant aleure et prist le brachet Vint cevaucant parmi la lande et s'en ala or tot (p.
Upon entering, Gauvain sees a magnificent bed, seats himself therein, is assailed by magic art, overcomes a lion, and is then acclaimed lord of the castle.
Perceval rides on, and towards evening sees afar off a tree upon which burn many lights; as he draws near he finds only a chapel, upon the altar of which lies a dead knight.
All wail and lament; but as Peredur is not vouchsafed the meaning of what he sees he forbears to ask concerning it.
He needs to see, every day, prompt, decisive action; what he sees will tell more than what he hears.
For though he is wild in his way of mocking everything he sees and hears, he is a good boy in other things; a merry, pleasant boy as need be.
I have made up my mind, and Margaret will make up hers when she sees that there is but one way of saving her mother's life.
You may depend upon it that your duty to your child begins before it sees the light.
How strange it is that the doctor does not give her a tonic, when he sees how weak she is!
The next morning the hunter sees the bush floating over the spot where the beaver is lying, and pulls it up with the trap.
Mrs. Norbury, I shall take it as a deliberate personal affront if your clairvoyante friend sees any other ghost except that of my uncle.
But you sees the real gentleman who han't got his bread to get, can hafford to 'spise his cracter in the world.
Who sees unmoved, a ruin at his feet, The lowliest home where human hearts have beat?
The lover, however, sees nothing of all this, but relates the story of his unfortunate love-affair with as much simplicity as if he had been mourning the fall of the mother of mankind from paradise.
She had no time, be it observed, to divest herself of shawl or mantilla in order to show how sumptuously she could blush--for her salutation is made to Sir Hubert, and its roseate consequences ensue the very first moment she sees him.
Y seesthat to do this Z must have two of the three remaining trumps.
The stern priest explained the opinions of the Church, which sees in marriage only the propagation of humanity, and rebukes second marriages and all passions but those with a social purpose.
Once in the land where the Indians are, Nobbles walked out in the night by hisself--he always walks when nobody sees him you know--and he met an army coming frough the jungle.
I s'pose God has such very good eyes He always sees spots and stains; but I don't think mine is very bad to-day.
Mother visits the nurseries every morning and sees to his comfort and health.
Nobody sees it but Jesus and the angels at the gate--and God.
My heart has to have a white robe inside me, not outside; and the angel at the gate looks right frough me and sees it.
She'll get you some cake for tea if she sees me, so I won't hide any more.
She sees before her a face lined more deeply with sorrow than time, a woman who might still have considerable beauty had she not dyed her hair in her youth and ruined her complexion with cosmetics.
At a second glance Eleanor sees that this masculine young woman is strikingly attractive, her style distinctly original, her figure, though large, splendidly proportioned.
She sees in it a deliberate insult, and following Paulina, she demands: "Before you go, please apologise for your carelessness.
He sees in her eyes the overflowing of a heart; whose passionate adoration amounts to idolatry.
Then she sees for the first time he is the child with the European features.
In every shadow he sees a black mask, at the slightest sound his blood runs cold, the creaking of the boughs above are to him the echo of pursuing hoofs, and the cry of the parrot, that sinister yell which accompanied his fall.
Philip is enamoured of the idea, he sees such vast possibilities stretching out before him.
He sees through Eleanor's society prattle, the guileless mind, the childish innocence.
Sarah starts as she sees Mr. Roche on the doorstep.
She sees the oxen yoked together dragging their loads; she wonders if they are happier after all than mortals like Major Short and herself.
Philip looks at the stranger's dissipated eyes, and despite the apparent innocence which the hallowing presence of a guileless ice-cream will temporarily shed over Lothario himself, sees the general demoralisation that has set in.
Illustration: Philip throws back his coat, and she sees the shirt beneath it is splashed with blood.
Quinton never sees her in this simple garb without an exclamation of approval.
It seems an ominous sign of the times that as often as one sees a new pile rising on Surrey heights, it is apt to turn out a lunatic asylum, for which the flats about Hanwell surely offer a fitter site.
What a lovely picture, or series of pictures, the traveller sees as he approaches Stockholm from the sea.
As regards those instances where punishment is deserved but should be temporarily suspended, a remission of part or the whole of the sentence may be granted as the magistrate sees fit.
Who ever sees in China a tipsy man reeling about a crowded thoroughfare, or lying with his head in a ditch by the side of some country road?
An actress sees so much of bailiffs, duns, and writs, upon the stage, that she looks on all stamped paper as a farce.
A man never sees so far into human life as when he looks over a wife's or mother's grave.
The child sees warm visions of sunlight and beauty in those uncouth angles.
The young man who sees no beauty in a flower will make a mean husband.
His eyes get wondrous clear then, and he sees as never before what it is to love and to be loved; what it is to injure the feelings of the loved.
Gentlemen, men like the prisoner are destroyed daily under our law for want of that human insight which sees them as they are, patients, and not criminals.
That land is his; from the waves advancing, He sees green forests in sunlight dancing.
Though no human eye behold thee, Odin sees and hears each word; Coward, wilt thou murder slumber?
The nearest spring-day seesme here again: King Helge, so I hope, shall see me too.
The pitcher falls, and as it goes, he sees the white water flow over its lip.
He creeps over the floor on his hands and knees to one battalion and another, but he sees only the bright colours of his soldiers and the beautiful precision of their gestures.
How impressed Tommy is when at his heel All his baggage wagons wheel About the patterned carpet, and Moving up his heavy guns He sees them glow with diamond suns Flashing all along each barrel.
And through the casement sash She sees each cherry stem a pointed slice Of splintered moonlight, topped with all the spice And shimmer of the blossoms it uprears.
Judge, then, whether God does not see there much more to find fault with, for he sees our state far more clearly than we ourselves do.
The same about predestination, because he sees now-a-days so many flighty spirits who are but too much given to curiosity, and who go beyond bounds in this matter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
