64 Verbs to Use for the Word seeing

Is it you, Patou, good shaggy head starting out of the dark, with straws caught among your eyelashes? PATOU Which do not prevent my seeing what is plain as that hen-house rrrroof!

With faces of abject terror they surrounded Thomas, and the Bishop of Winchester implored him to resign his see.

But that century was not content with transforming the nave, it littered it with the first of its various delights, those chantries which are among the greatest splendours of this Cathedral, and which still, in some sort, commemorate Bishop Edingdon (1366), Bishop Wykeham (1404), Bishop Beaufort (1447), Bishop Waynflete (1416), Bishop Fox (1528) and Bishop Gardiner (1555) the last Catholic Bishop to fill the See.

"Come on down an' see," he said.

Then up spoke Robin, "Now tell us, young David of Doncaster, what dost thou see?" Then David answered, "I see the white clouds floating and I feel the wind a-blowing and three black crows are flying over the wold; but nought else do I see, good master.

He afterwards was forced to accept the great See of Caesarea, and was no less renowned as bishop and orator than he had been as monk.

He was not ambitious of ecclesiastical preferment, for aristocratic dunces occupied the great sees and ruled the great monasteries.

All-seeing, in this instance, did not mean merely fault-seeing.

At length, our mighty bard's victorious lays Fill the loud voice of universal praise; And baffled spite, with hopeless anguish dumb, Yields to renown the centuries to come; With ardent haste each candidate of fame, Ambitious, catches at his tow'ring name; He sees, and pitying sees, vain wealth bestow Those pageant honours, which he scorn'd below; While crowds aloft the laureate bust behold, Or trace his form on circulating gold.

He established his See, however, not at Chichester, but at Selsey where it remained until the Conqueror began to reorganise England upon a Roman plan, when more than one See was removed from the village in which it had long been established to the neighbouring great town.

Lanfranc did as he wished,removed the Saxon bishops, and gave their sees to Normans.

Harry was employed at night in removing the cotton see, which has been thrown out by the gin.

This can be given only by an independent seer who "Lends a precious seeing to the eye.

However humble the origin of the Church of Rome, in the early part of the fifth century it was doubtless the greatest See (or seat of episcopal power) in Christendom.

In the Saracen Friends there is just Ariosto's balance of passion and levity; and in the story which I have entitled Seeing and Believing, his exhibition of triumphant cunning.

Lord Winchelsea was very mad, wished to expel the bishops, to prevent translations, equalise their sees, &c. We had 139 to 19.

But, Robert, do not estimate A creature's pain by small or great; The greatest being Can have but fibres, nerves, and flesh, And these the smallest ones possess, Although their frame and structure less Escape our seeing.

St. Cuthbert was bishop of Lindisfarne for two years, having exchanged sees with bishop Eata, who went to Hexham.

Ah, now fall the scales From these my seeing and yet blinded eyes!

AUGUSTIN, or AUSTIN, ST., the apostle of England, sent thither with a few monks by Pope Gregory in 596 to convert the country to Christianity; began his labours in Kent; founded the see, or rather archbishopric, of Canterbury; d. 605.

And alle be it that it have no watre, zit men fynden there in and on the bankes, fulle gode fissche of other maner of kynde and schappe, thanne men fynden in ony other see; and thei ben of right goode tast, and delycious to mannes mete.

Charles Dickens was hard driven in his childhood, and the impressions that were then burnt into him governed all his seeing.

Footnote 46: Anselm was an Italian by birth, but wrote his famous work while holding the see of Canterbury.

Oh, thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truththe thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here, or nowhere,' couldst thou only see.

Leo left the See of Rome worse off than he found it: financially bankrupt, compromised by vague schemes set on foot for the aggrandisement of his family, discredited by many shameless means for raising money upon spiritual securities.

64 Verbs to Use for the Word  seeing