Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...text-books in admirable condition, and a shelf of nicely bound standard works, such as Shakspere, Milton, Macaulay, and so forth. The books all stand exactly upright, each one is in its proper place, and not a speck of dust can be seen on any of them. On seeing such a book-case in a room, I immediately look to see if my boots have left any mud on the carpet, I feel uncomfortable about my umbrella, and wish that I had left it on the door-mat outside. And when we leave, I am sure that if I listened...
...flung it in our midst; then paused to see...
...Laura Doane" and "Maggie Grey" than those wooden beauties that James delights in! We get a glimpse of "fluffy hair," a "slight, graceful figure," and we don't care to know if the eyes are large and lustrous, and the complexion like alabaster. In fact, we should prefer to see a few freckles, if only to show that she is but "an earthly paragon," and no angel. If the scene is to be laid on this earth, then even the heroine ought to be endowed with a few of our imperfections, for through them her character appeals most strongly...
...attempt to describe lest we be accused of too open adulation. Mr. Morse's two songs, "Embarrassment," by Abt, and, in response to an encore, J. K. Paine's "Matin Song," were sung with clearness, sweetness, and at times true pathos, though a captious critic would have desired to see a little more life and energy...
...fault may lie in my own stupidity; for I confess that even yet I cannot see the connection between politics and chimney-pots, or between personal allusions to the character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that I am to hear a speaker who holds views opposed to my own, I am bound to sit still and listen courteously to whatever he may have to say, and it is my own fault if I hear anything I don't like, But when I go to a lecture on Fine...