Literature examples of 'see' in English language

But see what comes of disobedience to parents!

Return me a line, that I may know what to depend upon: and I shall see you have not forgotten the pretty hand you were taught, in happy days, by Your true friend, CLARISSA HARLOWE.

You see, my dearest Miss Clary, that I make no scruple to call the step you took a false one.

She had again earnestly requested of the doctor his opinion how long it was now probable that she could continue; and he told her, that he apprehended she would hardly see to-morrow night.

See the infinite differences in the effects, on the same awful and affecting occasion, between a good and a bad conscience!

Thou wilt see in Miss Howe's letter, how different the expression of the same impatience, and passionate love, is, when dictated by the gentler mind of a woman, from that which results from a mind so boisterous and knotty as thine.

I see by your writing, as well as read by your own account, (which, were you not very, very ill, you would have touched more tenderly,) how it is with you!

said he, with his hands and eyes lifted up, can I see her?

The Colonel begged, if not improper, that he might see her, though sleeping.

This screen was placed there at the time she found herself obliged to take to her chamber; and in the depth of our concern, and the fulness of other discourse at our first interview, I had forgotten to apprize the Colonel of what he would probably see.

If, Madam, your cousin Morden should come, you would be glad to see him, I presume?

I am too weak to wish to see my cousin now.

Yet, if he come while I can see him, I will see him, were it but to thank him for former favours, and for his present kind intentions to me.

But did my cousin come purposely to town to see me?

And you will see how truly I spoke of myself just now, in saying I had no feelings, and that all the relations I hold with my fellow-creatures are mere business relations, when you reflect that I have never seen you since.

She said, in a low, distinct, awe-stricken voice, as if she were saying it in a dream, “I am going to see his Ghost!

See now, see now!

If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision ‘s limited.

We'll soon see about that, Mr.

They were walking thus, as he felt, nearer and nearer to where he should see his ships burn, and it was meanwhile for him quite as if this red glow would impart, at the harmonious hour, a lurid grandeur to his good faith.

Only I don't see why, for what I speak of,” she smiled—“for a mere escape from my state—I need do quite so MUCH.

I don't see,” she added, “why you're not right, I don't see why you're not happy, as you are.

” Interest certainly now was what he had kindled in her face, but it was all the more honourable to her, as he had just called it that she should want to see each of the steps of his conviction.

I happen, you see, to like my idea.

Somehow”—she turned it over—“I don't so clearly SEE her quite so much finding reassurance, or even quite so much needing it.

” “Perfectly—so that, if you see your way, she will be able to ‘go with him' in future as much as she likes.

You've only, if you can't see it, to ask her.

Our keeping on together will help you perhaps to see.

To see, I mean, how I need you.

“Still, you can see exactly how 'twas.

The end of September drew near, and she could see in his eye that he might ask her again.

He was so obliging as to leave off grinning, and inform me that a Young Person was outside wanting to see me.

I was resigned to see the Young Person, but I was not resigned to let the Young Person's shoes upset me.

I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

On one side, the graceful winding of the waters stretched away, now visible, now hidden by trees, as far as the eye could see.

“I see what's the matter with you.

“Not requiring either to see your message.

“Should you require to see the Prince's?

” “Why, our marriage puts him for you, you see—or puts you for him—into a new relation, whereas it leaves his relation to me unchanged.

If you'll give me what I ask, you'll see.

She said, after a little, to the Prince, “Stay with me; let no one take you; for I want her, yes, I do want her to see us together, and the sooner the better”—said it to keep her hand on him through constant diversions, and made him, in fact, by saying it, profess a momentary vagueness.

She had to explain to him that it was Fanny Assingham, she wanted to see—who clearly would be there, since the Colonel never either stirred without her or, once arrived, concerned himself for her fate; and she had, further, after Amerigo had met her with “See us together?

She had thus, on the spot, the sense of having given her plenty to think about, and that moreover of liking to see it even better than she had expected.

To make it now with force for Fanny Assingham's benefit would see her further, in the direction in which the light had dawned, than any other spring she should, yet awhile, doubtless, be able to press.

Only, when you ask me as if I mightn't perhaps know what to think, it seems to me best to let you see that I know perfectly what to think.

You can ask me anything under the sun you like, because, don't you see?

“I dare say—but your statement of your position, however you see it, isn't an answer to my inquiry.

“I've simply to see the truth of the matter—see that Maggie thinks more, on the whole, of fathers than of husbands.

The fact of our distinct establishments—which has, all the same, everything in its favour,” Charlotte hastened to declare, “makes her really see more of him than when they had the same house.

“Make them up, I mean, by coming to see YOU?

But what I mean is that I might—placed for it as we both are—go to see HIM.

” “I don't know what you call too much—for how can I not see it as it is?

You'd see your own quickly enough if the Colonel gave you the same liberty—and I haven't to tell you, with your so much greater knowledge of everything, what it is that gives such liberty most.

“So you see I AM!

” It was on Fanny Assingham's lips for the moment to reply that this was, on the contrary, exactly what she didn't see; she came in fact within an ace of saying: “You strike me as having quite failed to help his idea to work—since, by your account, Maggie has him not less, but so much more, on her mind.

XV It may be recorded none the less that the Prince was the next moment to see how little any such assumption was founded.