second-sighted
Example Sentences
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It so happened that the Patrick accusation was cleared up next day, when Nimue arrived with a second-sighted explanation.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
All your mother's Highland kinsfolk were never able to throw their second-sighted glamour into my een, and my own bairn shanna.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
Speaking of the second-sighted seer, Collins represents him as one who "In the depth of Uist's dark forest dwells."
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
In defiance of warnings from omens, second-sighted men, and sensible men, Argyll left the safe sanctuary of his mountains and sea-straits, and betook himself to London, “a fey man.”
From A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
Thou,—whom the second-sighted never saw, The Master Fiction of fictitious history!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
