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
Yet what chance would he have of finding a man whom he had never seen and would not know by sight in so large and populous a place?
From Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret by Alger, Horatio
Some objects we know by sight only, and other objects we know by sound only, and other objects we observe neither by light nor by sound but by touch or smell or otherwise.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North
Your wife and daughter I know by sight, and these two young ladies also.
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster
On our line we all know by sight the two fanatical checker players, bent happily over their homemade board all the way to town.
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher
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