"Visually" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stood on the hearth, the subject of their earlier curiosity revived in her with a new sense of its meaning—a sense gradually acquired through close daily contact with the scene of the lurking mystery. It was the house itself, of course, that possessed the ghost-seeing faculty, that communed visually but secretly with its own past; and if one could only get into close enough communion with the house, one might surprise its secret, and acquire the ghost-sight on one's own account. Perhaps, in his long solitary hours in this very room, where she ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... to treat the inherent motions of the stars (their so-called motus peculiares) as pursued indifferently in all directions. The steady drift extricable from them by rules founded upon the science of probabilities is presumed to be solar motion visually transferred to them in proportions varying with their remoteness in space, and their situations on the sphere. If this presumption be in any degree baseless, the result of the inquiry is pro tanto falsified. Unless the deviations from the parallactic line of the stellar motions balance ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various
... are invisible to me, if you don't force me to be visually aware of you. But I don't want to see ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... means of the television disc, and navigating visually as we neared the strange sphere, we were soon close enough to make out the physical characteristics of this ...
— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various |
