For once his far-seeing veld eyes played him false.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

TRYGAEUS We shall be more far-seeing in consequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace] Reference

The far-seeing statesman had played for this and had won.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

This railroad was projected by the energetic and far-seeing W. H.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes] Reference

Mrs. Gordon and all the world were perfectly right and far-seeing and wise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

"What shrewd, far-seeing villainy!" muttered Monte-Cristo, between his teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

"Well, what good did that do you?" said one of the boys who was not far-seeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

Of Hannibal's political wisdom and far-seeing sagacity, ancient history is full.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

He was a far-seeing statesman, and no man more distinctly realized the coming tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

It is a far-seeing, clear-thinking New Farmer who has come forward in the last decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Furrows] Reference

Some of the more far-seeing upholders of the present system are keenly conscious of this danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference

Actually no one bothered to think about it except for a few far-seeing men who worried as they saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference

Possibly this cautious, far-seeing man may advise Alice to deny her identity or to remain in seclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

Come, let us shake off the watery cloud from our immortal forms and survey the earth with far-seeing eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clouds] Reference

It is yet but half developed, but no far-seeing mind can form any estimate of its future growth and opulence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference

His intellect was far-seeing and acute, quick and yet cautious, meditative, methodical and free from prejudice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

In one respect he is distinguished from the politicians, and must rank with the far-seeing statesmen of his time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

The passing years brought fresh opportunities which were seized upon with tireless energy by this far-seeing rector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference

This must also have impressed that far-seeing lady, Libuša -- it inspired her as it has inspired many people since.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference

The abstract theory of State inspires far-seeing policies, democracy lives more by its natural instincts and feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference

In a series of remarkable and far-seeing cases involving such issues, the courts said no. 22 "Decompilation" was fair use.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

During the 1930s a number of far-seeing individuals began to worry about the social liabilities from chemically dependent farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Finally, a few clear-headed, far-seeing leaders made an analysis of the situation hoping to bring about a betterment of conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference

What, then, are the offsetting reasons why this kind of planting should have an appeal to far-seeing people who are favorably located?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

Francis had assented, for he calculated upon thus drawing to his interests one of his rival's most chivalrous knights, while far-seeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

His presidential aspirations are bound up with the carefully cultivated perception of him as a man of probity and a far-seeing intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Feels His Own Pain] Reference

Railroad presidents, and perhaps the most far-seeing and resourceful of all our captains of industry of the present generation, was born here.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference

The far-seeing views of Sir Stamford Raffles during the second brief English occupation of the Moluccas, from 1810 to 1816, were disregarded in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

Venice, long ago the far-seeing Senate had sought to purchase it from the Greek Emperor, but the agreement had come to naught by treachery of the Emperor's son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference

In fact, my mother was constantly reminding us of how lucky we were, how much we owed our parents, how far-seeing and wonderful my father was to have taken care of us all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money, Religion And Sex] Reference

"I see her," said he, "and the boy with her," and I looked at the far-seeing sailor eyes with the little wrinkles at the corners that seamen and hillmen have, and he left me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

With sudden reviving the daze went out of her features and the old light came back to her eyes, the far-seeing, undaunted light that had beaconed the long way from Grand Portage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference