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Sighted   /sˈaɪtəd/  /sˈaɪtɪd/   Listen
Sighted

adjective
1.
Able to see.



Sight

verb
(past & past part. sighted; pres. part. sighting)
1.
Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes.  Synonym: spy.
2.
Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device).



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"Sighted" Quotes from Famous Books



... benevolent, "and take note of their divisions and subdivisions of influence which extend from the very poorest and most abandoned to the very highest and most cultured. You will then understand why I maintain that Rome as a power is impregnable;—and why some of the more far-sighted and prophetic among us look upon the Conversion of England as ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli

... even failures in duty. I do not say that these men may not, many of them, be in very deed nobler than those whose conduct is more consistent; they may be more tender in the tone of all their feelings, and farther-sighted in soul, and for that very reason exposed to greater trials and fears, than those whose hardier frame and naturally narrower vision enable them with less effort to give their hands to God and walk with Him. But still, the general fact is indeed so, that I have never known a man who seemed altogether ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin

... were no tares among the wheat; nor that the servants would fail in rooting some of them up. They would succeed probably in doing some good: but they would succeed certainly in doing more harm. In their short-sighted, blind, erring, hasty zeal, they would destroy the good with the evil. Their knowledge of this complex and miraculous universe was too shallow, their canons of criticism were too narrow, to decide on what ought, or ought not, to grow in the ...
— Discipline and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley

... taste, and carrying his head proudly erect, he walked with a light, elastic step through the streets or across the carpet of a drawing-room, he would have been taken at a distance, or if one was a little near-sighted, not only for a handsome man, but even ...
— How Women Love - (Soul Analysis) • Max Simon Nordau

... rolled out of one of the tents, yawning and rubbing the sleep from his eyes. Then he sighted the strange canoe and was ...
— The God of His Fathers • Jack London


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