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
The people of St. Kilda, according to Martin, held that cows shared the visions of second-sighted milk-maids.
From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Lang, Andrew
The stranger's name was Theoclymenus, and he was a sooth-sayer and a second-sighted man.
From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Pogany, Willy
A Scotch nobleman sent for one of these second-sighted men out of the Highlands, to give his judgment of the then great George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Defoe, Daniel
Mr. Kirk has none of the Presbyterian abhorrence of fairies and fauns, though, like the accusers of the Orkney witches, he believes that ‘phairie control’ inspires the second-sighted men, who see them eat at funerals.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
