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I still have it in my scrapbook And I wonder if he ever looks in the old copy of "Hauff's Märchen" that I bought for him in Freiburg, and sees the English words that he was to learn how to translate when he should grow older!

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  1. transitive verb To perceive with the eye.
  2. transitive verb To apprehend as if with the eye.
  3. transitive verb To detect by means analogous to use of the eye: an electronic surveillance camera that saw the activity in the embassy yard.

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  • Jimmy, who has been holding on to the hoist cable, reaches toward her as she slides past, but their fingers only touch before she is gone, and the last thing Jimmy sees is her scowl of annoyance He does not stop to think. —  Asimov's SF, October-November2006
  • This new title sees one of the industry's most successful franchises brings the next generation of fear to the Xbox 360 ™ and PlayStation®3 systems. —  Evil Avatar - News Items
  • What he sees is a horse, saddled and with the bridle also on, standing with neck bent down, and head drooped till the nostrils almost touch the earth. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
  • Now I'm seeing what he sees--that Miss Sally Madeira likes to hear him sing, and humours him and pets him because he is gay and glad to be alive, and because Uncle Bernique says that he needs somebody to mother him. —  Sally of Missouri
  • Every one sees, at one moment's reflection, that it would be impracticable to take any account of the occasional necessary absences from class recitation in the general arrangements of our school, composed only of girls. —  The Education of American Girls
 

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