trick of eyesight
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"You see," said the secretary, "you have been the victim of a peculiar and unhappy trick of eyesight; in fact, Mr. Smith, may I suggest that you have been dreaming?"
From The Secret House by Wallace, Edgar
What was this mocking trick of eyesight that was perplexing him?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
The flicker of fire-flies hurrying into deeper shades seemed, by a trick of eyesight, to pass into the glint of dew.
From Fort Amity by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
