The Abbe, who was keen-sighted, observed these signs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

She had grown keen-sighted, distrustful of her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference

French camp, and his keen-sighted adjutant confirmed this.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

What leveret could escape amidst so many keen-sighted hunters?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury] Reference

The young men composing this arrival were of this keen-sighted order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference

The cause of some animals being keen-sighted and others not so is not simple but double.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

He had his eyes open always to my main chance, and he was both keen-sighted and far-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE HEATHEN] Reference

In daylight he could have reached it in an hour, for he was as keen-sighted by night as by day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Valiant]

The President, with great moral courage and keen-sighted wisdom, met the crisis of 1837 with an admirable bearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Mr. Stuart, keen-sighted as he was, both saw and felt that the tools, with which he worked, required sharpening up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

"He will not dare!" ejaculated the other, who not until this moment clearly understood his more keen-sighted friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference

A good mind protects like a divinity; disenchantment is as keen-sighted as a surgeon; experience as foreseeing as a mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Eve] Reference

Morton, who was very keen-sighted, thought that he distinguished some dark object beyond the low white band seen by the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

I've sent for you now because I look upon you as a keen-sighted and quick-witted man, qualified to make accurate observations. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Possessed] Reference

We must suppose the same cause also to be responsible for the fact that blue eyes are not keen-sighted by day nor dark eyes by night.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

The keen-sighted mother saw that there was something like coolness between brother and sister, but it was rather jealousy than lack of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

She had suddenly grown so keen-sighted that what she recognized to be an excuse assumed in her eyes the proportions of an unpardonable crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference

If Love is sometimes blind, he is keen-sighted for the sightless Arago, who boasts of having loved and been loved by the most beautiful women of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

Many of the traits that Wills saw in Whicher became the stuff of the fictional detective hero: he was ordinary-looking, keen-sighted, sharp-witted, quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective'] Reference

The grave owl is sitting upright, and meditating in the sun, with a keen-sighted sparrow perched between his ears trying to open the eyes of the sleepy owl with its sharp bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor] Reference

He was too clever, too keen-sighted and appreciative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without a Home] Reference

She was too keen-sighted and sharp-tongued to be popular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Gray] Reference

One of the latest, and certainly one of the most keen-sighted, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference

"Have you not observed it, you who were formerly so keen-sighted?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Years Later] Reference

"You are very keen-sighted for a lover, Mr Maplestone," I said coldly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Basement Flat] Reference

After the poet-psalmist came the prosaic and keen-sighted shrewd man of affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

The keen-sighted, subtle, but dangerously intriguing ambassador of the Republic, Francis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

But that keen-sighted girl saw too clearly -- she had caught her fast as a bird is caught by the fowler.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

Madame, keen-sighted enough in other respects, did not, however, at first see anything extraordinary in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Years Later] Reference

"Perfectly true," said Vanel, whose secret Aramis had, with keen-sighted gaze, wrung from the bottom of his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louise de la Valliere] Reference

A keen-sighted observer had very forcibly warned the Marseillais against delivering their city into the hands of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference

What were they thinking of her, these keen-sighted, gossiping servants? what would they think and say when she told them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Secret] Reference

Horn were men of reckless daring, but they were not keen-sighted enough to perceive fully the consequences of their acts.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

It seemed to the count that things were beginning to stir in the French camp, and his keen-sighted adjutant confirmed this.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

Walpole was a very shrewd and keen-sighted man, but he did not understand Queen Caroline or her feeling towards her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)] Reference

A bee-hunter must be a most keen-sighted fellow, although there is not so much difficulty in the pursuit as may at first appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference