"Quick-sighted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... old ones, to be sure," said Randolph, who was quick-sighted enough to understand that any remark of this kind might dim the luster of his expected victory. "His skates are old enough, but they are just as ...
— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger
... comprised, besides their covenants for mutual protection, an obligation which bound every member to give succor to any other, in cases of illness, conflagration, or shipwreck. But the growing force of these social compacts alarmed the quick-sighted despotism of Charlemagne, and they were, consequently, prohibited both by him and his successors. To give a notion of the importance of this prohibition to the whole of Europe, it is only necessary to state that the most ancient ...
— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan
... not so quick-sighted as Mrs. Downe Wright. You have not spied them yet, it seems," said ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... in wait for the days when the meals is not quite so good as they commonly be, to pick a quarrel with the one that is trying to serve them so as that they shall be satisfied. But you've all been good and kind to me. I suppose I'm not quite so spry and quick-sighted as I was a dozen years ago, when my boarder wrote that first book so many have asked me about. But—now I'm going to stop taking boarders. I don't believe you'll think much about what I did n't do,—because I ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... give me credit for being quick-sighted; I suspected something the first time I saw them together ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper
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