She cried out at sight of him with a heart of joy, but as he lurched nearer she slid from the horse and ran toward him.
The range-rider snaked his way toward the house, moving so slowly and noiselessly that Farrar lost sight of him entirely and began to wonder where he had gone.
At sight of him the sunshine was extinguished from her face, just as it had seemed to be from the room when his broad shoulders had filled the opening.
About noon Harrison came down the street and stopped at sight of him.
When she was out of sight in a dip of the draw, Harrison spoke.
Gringos evidently were no unusual sight to the troopers of the insurgent chief.
At sight of the American the young Mexican at the head of the long table where Pasquale had held his councils showed a flash of fine teeth in a glittering smile.
On the walls and in conspicuous places near the churches and cathedrals in Europe and America, the visitor is usually regaled with the sight of undertakers' signs and gravediggers' advertisements.
The father of this woman had been extremely skilful in the art of second sightor clairvoyance.
He had never reached his home, though he had actually been within sight of it.
Natural instinct led them to welcome the sight of men of their own race, but their minds misgave them when they thought of the effect which would be produced upon their converts.
Our heart's consuming pain, At sight of ruined altars, prophets slain, And God's own ark with blood of souls defiled!
But more grateful still to him was the sight of people everywhere reading the Scriptures and the Prayer Book.
A very solemn silence prevailed: thesight was truly impressive.
At sight of the vessel the inhabitants rushed down to the beach with cries of welcome, and greeted Marsden, on his landing, with affectionate regard.
I wish I was dead and buried and out of sight forever.
That writing takes a precious sight of time," her mother had remonstrated.
She longed for a sight of Miss Jewett's untroubled face to-night; if she might only tell her about the right thing that she had tried to do and how the power to do it had been taken from her!
At thissight we were struck with horror, though it was only a confirmation of what we had heard many times since we arrived upon this coast.
From Tongatabu the two ships sailed to New Zealand, and on the journey the Adventure was lost sight of.
The problem was a difficult one, and at first sight not easily solved.
A coachman smacking his whip put me in a tremor, and I ran at thesight of him.
At this sight the poor workmen, tired out, and torn with grief, threw themselves on the ground with violent contortions and weeping.
He said it was a sight better than lying tied a couple of years every day, and trembling all over every time there was a sound.
Roused from my stun at the first sight of a danger not foreseen by the mind I had steeled against far rarer portents of Nature, I cared no more for the lamps and the circle.
If the result of your experience sanction your presence, come; the sight of the babe rekindled life?
As a turning in the way brought in front of my sight the place I had left behind, I beheld the black litter creeping down the descent, with its curtains closed, and the Veiled Woman walking by its side.
But Margrave's keen eye caught sightof the atoms upcast by the light of the moon.
Then Ayesha tenderly, silently, drew the young head to her lap, and it vanished from my sight behind her black veil.
And thus he, too, sank out of sightdown into the valley below.
Before I could turn, some dark muffling substance fell between my sight and the sun, and I felt a fierce strain at my throat.
When an army is to be moved all means of transport in sightare commandeered.
Through all the superfine convolutions of his fancies and his coquetries he never loses sight for a moment of the clear truth of the heart.
This sight added to his speed, but he could not last very much longer.
He rose high into the air, while the bushes and spiked railing he knew so well sank out of sight beneath him, dwindling curiously in size.
It is a pretty sight to see a fellow like you, sitting there year after year on the saddler's bench, scraping all the skin off his hands; and with all the income you have, too!
He was much touched at the sight of her tears; but then a great fear arose in his mind, for he thought, "She is beginning to soften, and it will all turn out just as Jost said.
The frowning brows were smoothed and the fiery eyes now shone with the light of childish joy as she caught sight of the first flowers that began to peep above the ground.
His mother's heart leaped in her breast at the sight of his fresh young life, so full of hope and promise.
Another slant of wind favouring her, she went away with her sheets eased off to the eastward, and shortly afterwards we lost sight of her in a thick mist which swept over the German Ocean.
The sight still further stimulated the British crew to exertion, and in twenty minutes, with rigging refitted, she went about and with every gun reloaded stood down once more towards the enemy.
She lost sight of the Needles just as the sun sank into the ocean.
He seldom, however, caught sightof the blue sea in his rides without wishing to be upon it.
I said I would get some shells for her and the ladies, and I will; and if I do but have a sightof her but for a moment it is recompense enough.
She always took her seat next to Mary, that she might give her that attention which her deprivation of sight required.
The sergeant and his men, however, kept the smuggler in sight till they saw him reach the downs on which the mill stood, where his figure was distinctly visible against the sky.
He soon again caught sight of her and followed her at a distance till she reached Downside.
I have long lost sight of him, and should have been glad to hear that he was alive and well.
Good evening to you, Captain Headland," and Miles Gaffin, turning away, was soon lost to sight in the darkness.
He soon caught sight of her at about half-way to Adam's cottage.
We had stopped, and on these words he left me; but at the end of the corridor, while I looked after him rather yearningly, he turned and caught sight of my puzzled face.
I gasped, but my word had come: if she had lost her sight it was in this very loss that she had found again her beauty.
At the sight of him she smiled with extraordinary radiance and extended her arms to him, and then as he sprang forward and joyfully opened his own she vanished from the place.
He laughed out at the sight of my face, which doubtless expressed my perturbation.
I rejoiced for her--I supposed it would make at least the difference of her having more money; but even in this diversion, far from forgetting that she had said she was afraid, I seemed to catch sight of a reason for her being so.
The reason first given had with time dropped-out of sight and fifty better ones flourished on top of it.
I don't know what he had at first meant to say, but I think the sightof my relief touched him, excited him, brought up words to his lips from far within.
I felt after I had spoken in this sense that my assurance was complete; nothing had been wanting to it but the sight of my effect on him.
I had been struck by the beauty of a face that approached us and I was still more affected when I saw the face, at the sight of my companion, open like a window thrown wide.
At sight of me she flourished a paper with a movement that brought me straight down, the movement with which, in melodramas, handkerchiefs and reprieves are flourished at the foot of the scaffold.
This was a relief--it postponed a moment the sight of that pale, fine face of our friend's fronting me for the right verdict.
The dividing ridge of the Sierra Nevada is in sightfrom this encampment.
It is a singular sight in India to see the catamarans which put off from some parts of the coast, as soon as ships come in sight, either to bear on board or to convey from thence letters or messages.
The sight of this so intimidated the enemy, that many of them fled, and those who ventured to attack him were repulsed with considerable slaughter.
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be, for it is more difficult to retain good Cheer, when in Presence, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in all the other Senses.
Squinting and a dull Sight are amended by Shooting.
No, he ran into the kill, and as soon as he got out of sightaround a bend tied up my boat and skipped out," said Jack in a tone of disgust.
In a short time he came in sight not of the man, but of his boat, tied up at the bank, the man having disappeared.
The boys were in sight of the Van der Donk house by this time, but as they had no intention of calling they turned around and went back to the camp where they met Jack and his two friends just coming ashore.
No danger of catching cold now, but he'll be a sight all the same, and serves him just right.
Billy Manners had suddenly turned his camera upon the follow, considering him a good subject for a picture, and was just about to squeeze the bulb when the man caught sight of him and sprang back.
He would not pass Herring and Merritt, but went across the river where he could get sight of young Smith, who was going on at a good rate, Herring trying his best to reach him, but in vain.
Just then Merritt himself, in a ready made suit of clothes came out of a hotel on the corner, the boys seeing him before he saw them or Herring got sight of him.
Do you see any objection, dear, to obliging the sergeant with a sight of the books?
For him and for his grandfather they had sunk fromsight in the great sea of humanity, leaving them stranded on an isolated and mournful shore.
There's Patterson, for instance, he would arrest him on sight without the slightest compunction.
They found a grim little party awaiting them but at sight of Cleek's face Mr. Narkom started forward, and put a hand upon his friend's arm.
Mr. Brent's voice broke the silence that the sight of death so often brings.
A sorry sight was Violet, when, helped by Florence she finally crawled into view through the narrow opening and stood once again on the cellar floor.
In another moment, on catching sight of Puss on his big gray horse, he set up another wild barking.
Up and up he climbed until he was lost to sight amid the white clouds in the sky.
A sight of this star is worth a thousand dollars to any man who prefers education to money.
No bugle-call could rouse us all As that brave sight had done; Down all the battered line we felt A lightning impulse run; Up, up the hill we followed Bill, And captured every gun!
With the bands at play and the colours spread We swarmed up the parapet, But the sight that silenced our welcome shout I shall never in life forget.
Magnificently glorious sight It was in that great dawn!
The monument was opened then; It gave to general sight The alabaster couch alone; But all its lucid substance shone With preternatural light.
Sights of sadness many a one A man may meet beneath the sun; But a sadder sight did never man see Than lies in the Hall of Fontanlee.
As they cleaned their steeds at break of day, But like a thunderclap there fell In the midst of the horses and men a shell, And the sight we saw was a fearful one After that shell from the six-inch gun.
Surely Juliet would not be spoiled by the sight of a visitor leaving the house.
Phil closed his eyes to shut out the sight that he feared he might have to see, two struggling figures in the water.
There was something very boyish in the face that lit up with pleasure at sight of Bet and her chums, and his quick glance around seemed to take in everything.
They had just come in sight of the broad Hudson and Kit stopped short to gaze upon that wide flow of water.
Bet and her friends might have laughed at this strange sight if the play had continued a moment longer, but in the next second the girl had thrown herself flat on the wall and had burst into tears.
Bob, as the rain again shut out the sight of the canoe.
All this was very remarkable: but I cannot say that I much admired them, though I was much struck by the sight of an Egyptian mummy, embalmed and unwrapped, and supposed to have been in its present state far more than a thousand years.
We none of us very much enjoyed the sight of the dead specimens, we therefore gladly left them, in order to pay our respects to their living neighbours, whose houses were not very far off.
The smaller variations are, for the most part, utterly forgotten, their ephemeral existence and their slight individual influence upon the general progress being unrecorded at the time, and lost sight of almost at once.
This last-written epithet, which I wittingly introduce, must not be lost sightof by the Christian student.
Loo Quong gives this account of the matter: "A big crowd was gathered to us soon after we sang some hymns, but as soon as the photographer on sight they all ran away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
