"At first sight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... This species is at first sight very like the P. geometrica from Singapore; but the striation of the abdomen alone ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various
... the earth's teeming millions come, thither these two alone, of all the world beside, are, as if helplessly impelled, to settle their quarrel by the death of one or the other. Thus singular and inexplicable does it at first sight seem—this juxtaposition of freedom and slavery on the shores of ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... he said, and pointed to something in a tiny bush-fringed inlet, that at first sight looked like a heap of dead reeds. We tore away at the reeds, and there, sure enough, was a canoe of sufficient size to hold twelve or fourteen people, and in it a number ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... At first sight it seems difficult to understand how any government, however bad, can deliberately issue flood upon flood of inconvertible paper money, seeing that its printing operations are ruinous to both public and private credit. To obtain ...
— The Paper Moneys of Europe - Their Moral and Economic Significance • Francis W. Hirst
... ancient times. The silence is only upon the subject of insects. And, again, Christianity has one saint—the most beautiful character in all Christian hagiography—who thought of all nature in a manner that, at first sight, strangely resembles Buddhism. This saint was Francis of Assisi, born in the latter part of the twelfth century, so that he may be said to belong to the very heart of the Middle Ages,—the most superstitious epoch of Christianity. Now this saint used to talk to trees and stones ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn
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