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Example sentences for "the sight"

  • People who had given up all hopes of ever getting either in or out, or of ever seeing their home and friends again, plucked up courage at the sight of Harris and his party, and joined the procession, blessing him.

  • The sight of those notice-boards rouses every evil instinct in my nature.

  • The sight of this man, a physical and mental giant, performing this task ever so gently and patiently, sent a little pang of pity through Fanny, as Michael Fenger knew it would.

  • The sight of him moved her to a sudden resolve.

  • In the sight of God, if you will have it, I give you my name, I endow you with my money.

  • I stopped aghast at the sight of the scattered blood.

  • They were scared out of their wits by the sight of me.

  • At the sight of the former the staghounds, who had all tired of barking at me by this time, became furiously excited, howling and leaping against their chains.

  • The sight I saw when I entered that large hall was new and strange to me.

  • It is not like most rivers, beautiful to the sight, bestowing fertility in its course; not one that the eye loves to dwell upon as it sweeps along, nor can you wander upon its banks, or trust yourself without danger to its stream.

  • The sight was a distressing one, and the poor creatures will be sure to die unless speedily rescued.

  • Oh my soul, the sight of you is such a comfort to my eyes!

  • The sight of the slender white girl had amazed the savage chief and held him gazing at the trio for a moment before ordering his warriors to rush out upon their prey.

  • The sight of the civilized girl and the dapper, khaki clad Englishman had aroused in Korak memories long dormant.

  • The blacks were struck with horror and dismay at the sight of this white-skinned youth at the head of a pack of hideous baboons.

  • To the beast there was less of horror in the sight than to the lad, yet even the great ape growled beneath his breath at useless torture being inflicted upon the helpless slaves.

  • For the moment her fears had been allayed by the sight of the camp, which she had come to look upon as more or less a myth.

  • The sight of such a flexible bend as that on grim Egdon was quite an apparition.

  • Wildeve forgot the loss of the money at the sight of his lost love, whose preciousness in his eyes was increasing in geometrical progression with each new incident that reminded him of their hopeless division.

  • The reddleman had been almost exasperated by the sight of Wildeve outside Clym's house, and he was prepared to go to any lengths short of absolutely shooting him, to terrify the young innkeeper out of his recalcitrant impulses.

  • Yeobright's mind flew back to earth at the sight; he arose, shook himself and listened.

  • And for this reason; that by resigning I acknowledge I have acted wrongly by her; when I am more and more convinced every day that in the sight of Heaven and by all natural, straightforward humanity, I have acted rightly.

  • The sight of it revived a stronger feeling of self-condemnation for his brief return to her society than for his attachment to Sue.

  • She felt he was her only husband, and that she belonged to nobody else in the sight of God A'mighty while he lived.

  • The sight of it, unimpaired, within its screen of grass and nettles, lit in his soul a spark of the old fire.

  • My face burned with the unusual excitement caused by the sight of a man wearing the Big Knives' clothing and coming toward me with my uncle.

  • She visibly trembled at the sight of the motley group.

  • Our camp was thrown into great excitement; and as the warriors advanced to meet the enemy, I was almost overcome by the sight of your uncle among them!

  • The council-men, who usually walked a little in advance of the train, were the first to meet the bear, and he was probably deceived by the sight of this advance body, and thus audaciously defied them.

  • Mole's face-beamed at the sight of all these objects so dear to him, and he hurried Rat through the door, lit a lamp in the hall, and took one glance round his old home.

  • The Mole was greatly cheered by the sound of the Rat's careless laughter, as well as by the sight of his stick and his gleaming pistols, and he stopped shivering and began to feel bolder and more himself again.

  • The sight of these greedy young hedgehogs stuffing themselves with fried ham makes me feel positively famished.

  • Portly woke up with a joyous squeak, and wriggled with pleasure at the sight of his father's friends, who had played with him so often in past days.

  • As my eyes wandered about the garden, the sight of the hundreds of air craft lying unguarded around us suggested the simplest avenue to freedom.

  • The sight of them in the open brought a score of fliers darting toward us from all directions.

  • As he saw me enter, a grim smile touched those grim lips of his, but whether the smile signified relief or merely amusement at the sight of my own bloody and dishevelled condition I do not know.

  • From that moment I believed myself, in the sight of heaven, free--and no power on earth shall force me to renounce my resolution.

  • His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.

  • For a long time Kala could not accustom herself to the sight; for though her people could swim when forced to it, they did not like to enter water, and never did so voluntarily.

  • I ask you in the sight of heaven: Gordon Darnaway, where is the man for whom Christ died?

  • The sight of something attractive and unatttainable seasoned his enjoyment, he would say; and he professed he had lived long enough to admire a candle all the more when he could compare it with a planet.

  • When I got back to the house already dismally affected, I was still more sadly downcast at the sight of Mary.

  • The sight of this poor human relic thrilled me to the heart, but not with hope nor fear, only with a desolate melancholy.

  • The sight of the sea, even from a city, will bring thoughts of storm and sea disaster.

  • And even if God tempers His dispensations to the young, and all the ill does not arise that our apprehensions may forecast, the sight of such a way of living is disquieting to people who are more happily circumstanced.

  • In about a quarter of an hour her uncle returned; she was almost ready to faint at the sight of him.

  • She was checked by the sight of her uncle much nearer to them than she had any suspicion of, and each found it necessary to talk of something else.

  • Her eyes brightened at the sight of Edmund.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    the dust; the fat; the land; the other; the right; the several; the slaughter; the trees; the west; the wine; then from; then moved; then remove; then stood; then take; then take them out; then thought; then transferred; thence south; there are; there has; there seems; there would; thermal springs; these islands; these principles