second sight
noun
the faculty of seeing future events; clairvoyance.
second-sighted
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a word derived from
second sight.
Example Sentences
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It so happened that the Patrick accusation was cleared up next day, when Nimue arrived with a second-sighted explanation.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The people of St. Kilda, according to Martin, held that cows shared the visions of second-sighted milk-maids.
From The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang
So Theoclymenus spoke, and all the wooers laughed at the second-sighted man, for he stumbled about the hall as if it were in darkness.
From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Willy Pogany
Thou,—whom the second-sighted never saw, The Master Fiction of fictitious history!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
Oh, second-sighted Sandie look'd fu' wae, An' mithers grat sair whan they march'd away.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
