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far-sighted |
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far-sighted Med of, relating to, or suffering from hyperopia |
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| Now the Delawares nam'd me for my eyes, and I was called after the far-sighted hawk. He joined company with the Moriscoes who were going forth from other villages, for he knew their language very well, and on the voyage he struck up a friendship with my two uncles who were carrying me with them; for my father, like a wise and far-sighted man, as soon as he heard the first edict for our expulsion, quitted the village and departed in quest of some refuge for us abroad. A no less far-sighted cunning distinguished his proceedings in answering the advertisements which the lawyers duly inserted in the newspaper. |
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