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
There are too many parts which I do not know by sight.
From The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
No. Of course she might be in our employ, but I doubt it, although I could not be expected to know by sight every girl who works in the plant.
From The Film of Fear by Will Foster
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 George Barr McCutcheon
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 Horatio Alger
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