viewy

• “After this, for those who are going to write at all, comes the "viewy" stage, and this is full of interest.”

  The Education of Catholic Girls

• “After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too "viewy," too much inclined to paradox, too wild.”

  The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography

• “That is, he was "viewy," in a bad sense of the word.”

  Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert

• “a soldier and a diplomat, hence his genius, even in its extremes of mirth has balance and health, remoteness and neutrality -- it is never bitter, and never in the least "viewy".”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “Edinburgh, 1894-9), a very clever and rather "viewy" work; LOOFS, Leitfaden zum Studium der D.G. (Halle, 1889; 3rd ed.,”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “Circumstances had enabled him to frequent a few studios, and his first letter to me from that city had been rather technical and "viewy.”

  On the Stairs

• “After a time, however, they began to think that he was what they called too “viewy,” too much inclined to paradox, too wild.”

  The Adventure of Living

• “Pitt therefore based his hopes on the statesmanlike policy of the Czar, who in that month despatched to London one of his confidants, a clever but viewy young man, of frank and engaging manners, Count Novossiltzoff.”

  William Pitt and the Great War

• “Some fine speech you were pondering, some knotty question, some viewy doctrine -”

  Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2

• “Such virtues in daret combine I While the dwtk it in viewy Our joys are ftill new.”

  Internet Archive: The Vocal Magazine: Or, Compleat British Songster

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