Sticking up above intervening hillocks and rushes, it was observed over the top of his glasses by the longsighted Mr. Phinn when, accompanied by Thomasina Twitchett, he came nearer to Bottom Bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
Mr. Salter explicitly denies that the moral virtues come "from below, from prudence, from the sense of decency, from longsighted selfishness; they who think so," he declares, in a fine burst, "never breathed the climate of morality.". From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
The night hung motionless over the Foregate and the valley of the Meole, and the woods through which the sheriff and his men had hunted in vain, plotting clearly, for those longsighted eyes, the passage of Picard's bright red cap through the trees, and mapping the way by which, later, he must return. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
Further checks revealed that some pupils are shortsighted while others are longsighted. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The larger LCD screen, but will be using the EVF mainly for composing the shots (longsighted). From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Reference
He was not longsighted enough, and he did not see as a whole even what was within his range of vision. From Wordnik.com. [Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France] Reference
Keiki himself, although the memorial was directed against him, may fairly be reckoned among these longsighted patriots. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
It will be, I fear, his last work of that sort, his eyes, which are very longsighted, now beginning to fail and weaken at near objects. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
Spinoza urged the uselessness of miracles, and Hume their incredibility, with a guarded subtlety and longsighted refinement of statement which made them in advance of their age except with a few. From Wordnik.com. [Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890] Reference
ACCORDING to the decree of Heaven, there once lived in the Persian city of Kerman a cat like unto a dragon -- a longsighted cat who hunted like a lion; a cat with fascinating eyes and long whiskers and sharp teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales] Reference
This time there was no tricks, and perhaps the only thing I remember was my mother†™ s worried reaction as the optician told her I had a “lazy eyeâ€, meaning I was longsighted only in the left eye, and that I should†™ ve been diagnosed earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Qwaider Planet] Reference
It is a longsighted move. From Wordnik.com. [The Outlook for 1931] Reference
Also longsighted. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Mists of Door]
I’m very longsighted, you know. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
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