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Second-sight   Listen
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Second-sight  n.  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. "He was seized with a fit of second-sight." "Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second-sight."





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"Second-sight" Quotes from Famous Books



... Adcock were reconciled for a moment, only to quarrel the more fiercely; the name of Mrs. Adcock was proscribed, nor did it again pass her sister's lips, until the morning when she announced: "Mary Adcock is dead; I saw her in her shroud last night." Second-sight was hereditary in the house; and sure enough, as I have it reported, on that very night Mrs. Adcock had passed away. Thus, of the four daughters, two had, according to the idiotic notions of their friends, disgraced themselves in ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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