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  • Sounds of depreciation, forming themselves indistinctly into something like the words, “my eye, and Betty Martin,” did issue from the neckcloth of Sir Bingo, but they were not much attended to; for it had not escaped the observation of the quicksighted gentry at the

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • If the squire had been as quicksighted as he was remarkable for the contrary, passion might at present very well have blinded him.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • She loved every body, was interested in every body's happiness, quicksighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing.

    Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

  • How soldier-like they bustle about the jus divinum of titles, and how quicksighted they are to pick the least thing out of the writings of the ancients wherewith they may fright the common people and convince them, if possible, that more than a tenth is due!

    In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

  • Love is generally quicksighted; but Helen's own heart was so pure, and so devoted, that it was hard to believe she was no longer beloved.

    A Book for the Young Sarah French

  • But Fanning either did not see the danger, or he was vexed that another should be more quicksighted than himself, for he would not retract his order.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

  • For, most women being quicksighted about love, and most men – especially young men – blind enough in its betrayal, – any woman who wilfully allows an offer only to refuse it, lowers not only herself but her whole sex, for a long, long time after in the lover's eyes.

    John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

  • I had hoped that whatever might be the prejudices of modern architects, there would have been found some among them quicksighted enough to see the bearings of this principle, and generous enough to support it.

    Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 John Ruskin 1859

  • So active and quicksighted is it, that it catches the rapidly-flying insects as they flit by, or chases the beetles as they run over the bark of the trees on which it lives.

    The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Women ought, perhaps, always to make the best critics -- at once more quicksighted, more tasteful, more sympathetic than ourselves, whose proper business is creation.

    Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

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