单词 | second-sighted |
例句 | It so happened that the Patrick accusation was cleared up next day, when Nimue arrived with a second-sighted explanation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A Scotch nobleman sent for one of these second-sighted men out of the Highlands, to give his judgment of the then great George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; 2011-08-14T02:00:22.973Z He used to tell me my inmost little-girl secrets before I could confide them to him, he was so second-sighted. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z He sent his crew to the town, and was just starting to walk across the island to the swineherd's house, when the second-sighted man asked what he should do. Tales of Troy and Greece All your mother's Highland kinsfolk were never able to throw their second-sighted glamour into my een, and my own bairn shanna. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III Speaking of the second-sighted seer, Collins represents him as one who "In the depth of Uist's dark forest dwells." Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland But, for excellent reasons, I asked Bude and Lady Bude to say nothing about the hallucination of these second-sighted Highland fishers. The Disentanglers So Theoclymenus spoke, and all the wooers laughed at the second-sighted man, for he stumbled about the hall as if it were in darkness. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy We are among the red deer, and the salmon, and the cattle in the hills, among the second-sighted men, too, of whom Columba was far the foremost. A Short History of Scotland Thou,—whom the second-sighted never saw, The Master Fiction of fictitious history! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood You confounded second-sighted Kelts—one never knows where you are! Captivity The detestable cruelty of the ministers who urged magistrates to burn second-sighted people, and the discomfort and horror of the hallucinations themselves, combined to make patients try to free themselves from the involuntary experience. Cock Lane and Common-Sense So saying, the second-sighted man went out of the hall. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy In defiance of warnings from omens, second-sighted men, and sensible men, Argyll left the safe sanctuary of his mountains and sea-straits, and betook himself to London, “a fey man.” A Short History of Scotland The common Highland belief is that they show themselves to second-sighted persons, very frequently before the arrival of a stranger or a visitor, expected or unexpected. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts The Scotch used to justify their practice of putting the head between the knees when, bound with a corpse's hair tether, they learned to be second-sighted, by what Elijah did. The Making of Religion Another informant mentions a belief that children born between midnight and one o’clock will be second-sighted. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Moaning Continuously as seas Or forests before storm, And, gathering moment, Articulated by her woe, begins With second-sighted eloquence To wail through me, Nigh as unheeded, As though it still had been Meaningless wind. Miscellany of Poetry 1919 Your second-sighted man That scared the dying conscience of the king, Misheard their snores for groans. Queen Mary and Harold His father, still alive, was second-sighted, and so, to a moderate extent and without theory, was my friend. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts He sees visions farther off than a second-sighted man in Scotland, and dreams upon a hard point with admirable judgment. Character Writings of the 17th Century Children are subject to the vision, the horse of a seer, or the cow a second-sighted woman is milking, receives the infection, at the moment of a vision, sweats and trembles. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Their second-sighted eloquence, Welcomed with acclamation, Had fired action. Miscellany of Poetry 1919 If these events which second-sighted men discover, or foretel, be visibly represented to them, and acted, as it were before their eyes ? Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects She was the best of women, strong in mind and second-sighted, and she could cover herself in her hair. Eric Brighteyes To save time he goes at once on board ship, taking with him an unfortunate outlaw, Theoclymenus, a second-sighted man, or the family of Melampus, in which the gift of prophecy was hereditary. The Odyssey Done into English prose As usual among the Presbyterians a minister might have abnormal accomplishments, work miracles of healing, see and converse with the devil, shine in a refulgence of ‘odic’ light, or be second-sighted. Cock Lane and Common-Sense People were thought to be “second-sighted”—that is, to have prophetic vision. Essays in Little He recommended him as a person skilful in the arts of the harper and the senachie, and by no means contemptible in the quality of a second-sighted person or seer. A Legend of Montrose There are a few cases of a brownie being seen, once by a second-sighted butler, who observed brownie directing a man’s game at chess. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The second-sighted man prophesies of the near revenge of Odysseus. The Odyssey Done into English prose A correspondent of Aubrey’s vouches for a second-sighted man who babbled too much ‘about the phairie,’ and ‘was suddenly removed to the farther end of the house, and was there almost strangled’. Cock Lane and Common-Sense He is the second-sighted man, and beholds the shroud that wraps the living who are doomed, and the mystic dripping from the walls of blood yet unshed. Essays in Little Mr. Kirk has none of the Presbyterian abhorrence of fairies and fauns, though, like the accusers of the Orkney witches, he believes that ‘phairie control’ inspires the second-sighted men, who see them eat at funerals. Cock Lane and Common-Sense For such physical symptoms as introverted eyes in seers we need look no further than Martin’s account of the second-sighted men, in his book on the Hebrides. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The wooers mock Telemachus, and the second-sighted Theoclymenus sees the ominous shroud of death covering their bodies, and the walls dripping with blood. The Odyssey Done into English prose |
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