know by sight
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Behind them, an enormous mother, in a brown silk dress, and the father, a rather frail little man I know by sight.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
He was the sort of citizen you always think of last when trying to take a mental census of the people you know by sight.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by McCutcheon, George Barr
“I know of a good many people that I don’t know by sight; for example, there’s the President.”
From The Go Ahead Boys and the Mysterious Old House by Kay, Ross
He has seen a good deal of these cases—quite as much as you, in fact—but he is the only one of the three of us whom Mayes does not know by sight.
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur
‘My brothers,’ he said, ‘the electors do not know by sight; it is my influence which returns them.’
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
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