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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Sight
 
See all the monsters; the great lion of all, Don.
        Ben Jonson.—The Alchemist, Act IV. Scene 1.		  1
Of all our antic sights and pageantry,
Which English idiots run in crowds to see.
        Dryden.—The Medal, Line 1.		  2
  And to show the sharpness of their sight towards objects that are near, I have been much pleased with observing a cook pulling a lark, which was not so large as a common fly; and a young girl threading an invisible needle with invisible silk.
        Swift.—Gulliver’s Voyage to Lilliput, Chap. VI.		  3
 
 
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