Word: seering
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...Seer of visions, breaking through the ages...
Klapproth, an exuberant provincial, during a visit to Berlin desires to enjoy an adventure which in the telling will outclass the experiences of a rival sight-seer in his native town. He hits upon the idea of visiting a sanitarium for persons mentally unbalanced and promises to start a nephew of his in business if he will arrange for such an adventure. The nephew resolves upon the rash expedient of taking his uncle to the Pension Scholler, a private and eminently sane boarding house...
...truth that makes men free--there came a seer...
...Mountain" is a more imaginative effort and "In the Vatican" is a simply and naturally (and therefore well) told reminiscence of a sight-seer at the Vatican who unconsciously slept in the great chair of the Pope of Rome...
...Putnam's Sons have just issued "Baron Munchausen" in the Knicker-bocker Nuggets Series. The adventures are selected with judgment from the best English and German editions of the experiences of the noted traveler and sight-seer. The illustrations are good and profuse...