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Literary notes about Sight (AI summary)

In literature, the term "sight" is not limited to its literal sense of seeing; it often embodies layers of symbolism, emotion, and perception. Authors use it to evoke immediate sensory impressions—a breathtaking landscape or a sudden encounter that stirs deep feelings ([1], [2], [3])—and to illustrate moments of transformative recognition, such as love or revulsion experienced at first glance ([4], [5]). At times, "sight" marks the boundary between presence and absence, as characters are lost to view or struggle not to lose sight of a precious figure ([6], [7], [8]). In other instances, it carries a moral or spiritual weight, highlighting divine omniscience or the profound significance of human conduct ([9], [10], [11]). Such varied applications reveal how writers weave the tangible act of seeing with metaphoric insights into human experience ([12], [13], [14]).
  1. I've been all over the world, Mistress Blythe, and take it all in all, I've never seen a finer sight than a summer sunrise over the gulf.
    — from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
  2. How magnificent was the sight from this height!
    — from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. Andersen
  3. I caught sight of a V-shaped ripple on the water ahead.
    — from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  4. But, talking of foolishness, do you know Praskovya Pavlovna is not nearly so foolish as you would think at first sight?”
    — from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. Had he fallen in love with this surprising daughter of Mrs. Tulliver at first sight?
    — from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  6. Mahony began to play the Indian as soon as we were out of public sight.
    — from Dubliners by James Joyce
  7. Beyond one of the sentinels nobody was in sight; the railroad ran straight away into a forest for a hundred yards, then, curving, was lost to view.
    — from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
  8. Lilith then flew out of Eden and out of sight.
    — from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
  9. In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  10. If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it. 18:11.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  11. And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  12. In their highest creative moments the great poet, the great musician cease to use the crude instruments of sight and hearing.
    — from The World I Live In by Helen Keller
  13. Now when he was asleep, she loved him so that at the sight of him she could not keep back tears of tenderness.
    — from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
  14. He reached the Champs-Elysees, and he continued to walk, enlivened by the sight of the young people trotting along.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

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