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 detestable cruelty of the ministers who urged magistrates to burn second-sighted people, and the discomfort and horror of the hallucinations themselves, combined to make patients try to free themselves from the involuntary experience.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
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 Holmes, Daniel Turner
His father, still alive, was second-sighted, and so, to a moderate extent and without theory, was my friend.
From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Lang, Andrew
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
