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Significats de quick-sighted en anglès
Having very keen vision.
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Examples for "argus-eyed"
Examples for "argus-eyed"
1
It was Alvarez de Quadra, Bishop of Aquila, the argus-eyed ambassador of Spain.
2
His telephone message had thrown a cordon of argus-eyed men around New York.
3
Those agency employes were argus-eyed, watching each move made by him and his assistants.
4
Even the 'argus-eyed press' has no theory to offer.
5
The Capitol building gleamed, argus-eyed on the hill.
1
However, these horses are as nimble as cats, and almost as keen-sighted.
2
The young men composing this arrival were of this keen-sighted order.
3
Most of our large periscopes were shattered by keen-sighted German snipers.
4
O Jungfrau Els, I have the hunter's eyes, which are keen-sighted!
5
He knew no man more indulgent and keen-sighted than him.
1
Pedro was dull, honorable, and frank; Juan was hawk-eyed and double-faced.
2
We did our last extracting from the hawk-eyed one yesterday.
3
She looked the picture of fleshy prosperity, a big handsome Jewess, hawk-eyed and rapacious.
4
Why then should the hawk-eyed one delay his own felicity?
5
Bouchard, hawk-eyed, stern, was standing by the street door.
1
At this ruefully expressive face, the lynx-eyed conclave laughed loud and long.
2
But he watched, lynx-eyed, the strong, brown face of his cousin.
3
Keen brokers, great operators, lynx-eyed newspaper reporters would soon corner him.
4
That lynx-eyed servant of De Froilette's saw you, as you know.
5
My mistress was lynx-eyed in all that related to Betts Shoreham and the governess.
1
A ring at the bell brought a sharp-eyed maid to the door.
2
But presently a sharp-eyed Sparrow spied Mother Magpie sitting in her nest.
3
At first, Kachiun could not understand why his sharp-eyed scouts were shouting.
4
Their red jackets made them a conspicuous mark for the sharp-eyed settlers.
5
His charm was nice, but his sharp-eyed intellect was even more attractive.
1
The captain was sharp-sighted enough to observe the change in her manner.
2
The most sharp-sighted eye could not have discovered his place of concealment.
3
This hero is not sharp-sighted enough to see success when it comes.
4
He was ugly, and blind of an eye, yet very sharp-sighted withal.
5
He's too sharp-sighted not to have observed what has been going on.
Ús de quick-sighted en anglès
1
The quick-sighted scout perceived his danger, without knowing how to remedy it.
2
She's mons'rous quick-sighted for wood an' such like-though good for nothin' else.
3
The captain heard this; and, as fear is ever quick-sighted, he instantly caught the object.
4
A glance, charged with such a meaning, could not escape the quick-sighted vigilance of a mother.
5
He took a positive pleasure in his work, and soon attracted the observation of his quick-sighted employer.
6
It is a happy proof, through which, reasonable and prudent conclusions confirm the quick-sighted glances of practice.
7
Captain Lawton would have discovered the fraud immediately, but Mason was by no means so quick-sighted as his commander.
8
Some circumstances may escape your observation that my quick-sighted fears will seize on; at least I may serve as your notary.
9
Her people had not been so quick-sighted as we were, but when they saw us making sail, they did the same.
10
Whereas if another do but slip a word and one more quick-sighted than the rest discover it by accident, O Hercules!
11
And surely, as the quick-sighted Mrs. Gwynne often said, no daughter of a long illustrious line was ever prouder than Christal Manners.
12
In this rude theatre of conference some changes had been made since their recent visit, which escaped not the observation of the quick-sighted chiefs.
13
But the growing force of these social compacts alarmed the quick-sighted despotism of Charlemagne, and they were, consequently, prohibited both by him and his successors.
14
Indeed, I did not think the people would be so quick-sighted at once, as to see the distinction of old and new was without difference.
15
But the little boy was not so quick- sighted, and cried, "Indeed, papa, those naughty men there have frighted my mamma out of her wits."
16
"Oh, yes, give me credit for being quick-sighted; I suspected something the first time I saw them together after Mr. Hazlehurst came back."